Test & Measurement World - May 1, 2007

The move into broadcast and on-demand video has thrust engineers at Verizon Labs into video-network integration and testing. Using SONET, video, and RF testers, they test a network that simulates real-world video delivery.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Five exabytes of distraction
• News Briefs
• News briefs
• Show Highlights
• OFC technical sessions feature test and measurement
• Test Voices
• Diodes and x-rays
• Viewpoint
• The hub between stimulus and test

• Features
• Failure Analysis
• Wire ends yield failure clues
• Production Test
• Probe-mark inspection
• Project Profile
• Check the clock oscillators

• PXI Test Report
• Editor's Note
• Compatibility is key to customer loyalty
• Highlights
• Highlights
• PXI Report
• PXI turns 10
• Taming power in PXI
• Products
• PXI solid-state multiplexers
• PXI DAQ cards

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Cycle and analyze DC power
• Oscilloscopes add logic channels
• USB frame grabber handles 60 fps
• Vicor debuts high-density bus converter
• Agilent launches 3-D in-line AXI system

• Tech Trends
• Design, Test and Yield
• Parallel parametric test goes asynchronous
• Machine Vision
• Filters improve images

• Test Digest
• Book Review
• Time-to-market pressure drives parallel parametric test
• Fiber Optics
• Optics on silicon lose polarization dependence
• Instrumentation
• Test instrument revenue to approach $4.5b in 2010