Test & Measurement World - February 1, 2007

Traditional approaches for extracting computational power from silicon are insufficient for meeting the requirements of machine-vision, medical-imaging, and radar-processing applications. That's the view of the founders of MathStar, who envisioned a silicon computational device that could provide the performance of ASICs at the development costs of FPGAs. The device they invented is the field-programmable object array--a reprogrammable IC based on MathStar's silicon object technology.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Tree loses race with PC's CO2
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Test Voices
• Into the bay: Buying a spectrum analyzer
• Viewpoint
• Imagining tomorrow’s products today

• Features
• Inspection
• AOI systems simulate human brain
• Project Profile
• The analog in software radio: Testing SDRs
• System and Subsystem Test
• IEEE 1641 supports test and design

• Machine-Vision and Inspection Test Report
• Editor's Note
• “Standard” doesn’t mean “stagnant”
• Highlights
• Highlights
• Machine-Vision and Inspection Report
• Smaller inspection firms find a niche
• GigE Vision makes strides
• New standard improves verification of Data Matrix codes
• Products
• Wafer loaders
• Solder-paste inspection system
• Vibration isolation workstation
• GigE CCD camera
• FireWire-B cameras

• PXI Test Report
• Editor's Note
• PXI reaches maturity
• Highlights
• Highlights
• PXI Report
• Keithley embraces PXI
• Hybrids jump-start PXI Express
• Products
• PXI platform suites
• 64-bit Windows driver
• Signal-capture boards

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• PCI Express exerciser
• Switching power supplies
• High-voltage power-bus converter
• Network analyzer software
• Dual-trace oscilloscopes
• 400-W/600-W modular power supplies
• Agilent announces four Genesys EDA suites
• Temperature measurements go wireless
• Integrating sphere
• Embedded controller has multiple I/Os

• Tech Trends
• Bench-Level Test
• The buses roll on: PCI gets competition from PXI and USB in DAQ applications
• Manufacturing Test
• ICT faces the future as bed-of-nails access erodes

• Test Digest
• Digital Video Test
• Three-step test verifies video equipment
• Networking Equipment
• Networking equipment may need more test
• Webcast
• Oscilloscopes track intermittent signals