Test & Measurement World - September 1, 2007

When Navy pilots use night-vision goggles or Navy sailors use radios, they trust that defense contractors have fully tested the equipment for reliability. But who tests the testers?

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Not by STEM alone
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Show Highlights
• Show Highlights
• Test Voices
• Measured bars of light
• Viewpoint
• Let modeling solve test challenges

• Features
• Instrument Interfaces
• Making the connection between VXI and LXI
• PCB Test
• The backstory on backdriving
• Project Profile
• Within the temperature range

• PXI Test Report
• Editor's Note
• Wireless PXI?
• Highlights
• Highlights
• PXI Report
• PXI Express brings streaming to test
• PXI systems aid manufacturing test
• Products
• PXI multimeter offers 6½ digits
• Development software gets new Service Pack
• Adlink introduces eight-slot PXI chassis
• Four modules test optical transceivers

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Noise modules have bandwidths up to 10 GHz
• Strategic debuts 125-MHz PCI Express I/O boards
• LXI switches go high voltage and low loss
• Store a world of test data
• JTAG module streamlines TestStation integration
• Analog signal generator offers 6-GHz performance

• Tech Trends
• ATE firm responds to RF chipmaker's call
• Machine Vision
• Telecentric lenses measure up

• Test Digest
• Book Review
• Use LabView with style
• Switching Systems
• Avoid switching mistakes
• Webcast
• Webcast sheds light on switching systems