Test & Measurement World - March 1, 2007

Test Engineer of the Year John Gmitter and his team make use of PXI and GPIB instruments as well as the TestStand test executive to expand test capabilities to keep up with ever-increasing production volumes of the tactical vehicular, base-station, and handheld communications systems that Harris RF Communications manufactures.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• The Online Freedom Act returns
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Show Highlights
• Measurement Science Conference expands exhibits
• Test Voices
• Share open-source test code
• Viewpoint
• Helping engineers do more with less
• Helping engineers do more with less (continued)

• Features
• Instruments
• Offensive channels: overcoming obstacles in printed-circuit board (PCB) traces, vias, IC pins, and cables
• Project Profile
• It’s all in the alignment (of fiber-optic waveguide modulators)
• Semiconductor Test
• Optimizing compression in scan-based ATPG DFT implementations
• Test Product of the Year
• High-bandwidth oscilloscope takes the prize
• Test of Time Award
• Graphical programming for test and measurement

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Grandmaster clock keeps precise time
• Vicor introduces 320-W regulator
• Agilent debuts DigRF logic-analyzer probes
• Stand-alone controller runs Linux
• Acquisition recorder works in airborne installations
• Spectrum analyzer includes Tablet PC
• Automate physical-layer compliance tests
• Anritsu enhances broadband VNA
• Power supplies offer soft-panel interfaces

• Tech Trends
• Design, Test and Yield
• DigRF supports baseband and RF chipset test
• Machine Vision
• Vision Web sites fail to deliver

• Test Digest
• Book Review
• Do we have a failure to communicate? The future of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology
• Data Transfer
• What does GT/s mean, anyway?
• Test Equipment Design
• FPGA designs for portable test gear