Test & Measurement World - March 1, 2008

Protecting circuits may not be at the forefront of every design engineer's mind, but it is paramount in the minds of Littelfuse engineers, who subject components to excessive current, lightning, ESD, overvoltage, and extreme temperatures.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Fractal engineering vs. synergy
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Test Voices
• The software is most of the work
• Viewpoint
• Where switching meets instrumentation

• Features
• Instruments
• Nomadic products put power sources to the test
• Project Profile
• Calibrated radio
• Subassembly Test
• Nonsignaling technique improves RF test

• PXI Test Report
• Guest Commentary
• With a decade behind us, it's full steam ahead!
• PXI Report
• PXI and bench instruments evenly matched
• Do you calibrate PXI?
• Extending PXI

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• WaveViewer software gets faster
• Software suite automates compliance testing
• Mecmesin debuts digital torque tester
• JTAG module tests DDR2 Mini DIMM 244 interfaces
• CW generator delivers fast switching speeds

• Tech Trends
• Design, Test and Yield
• The wall between structural and functional test
• Machine Vision
• Take lens MTF into account

• Test Digest
• Book Review
• RF book's new edition adds EDA tools, skips test
• Compliance
• IPC prefers devil it doesn't know
• Webcast
• Oscilloscopes aid embedded designs