Test & Measurement World - February 1, 2009

DeWalt power tools help contractors build just about anything. Not long ago, power tools were electrically simple, but today, electronics control motors, charge batteries, and monitor a tool’s health, and electronics testing is just as important as mechanical testing in making a reliable tool.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Software’s role in test
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Test Voices
• Make mine melamine, part 2
• Viewpoint
• How to untangle test complexity

• Features
• Boundary Scan
• Moving beyond IEEE 1149.1
• Test Ideas
• Test Ideas: Generate a swept sine in LabView

• Machine-Vision and Inspection Test Report
• Editor's Note
• Vision market’s ups and downs
• Highlights
• Highlights
• Machine-Vision and Inspection Report
• CCD sensors boost frame rates
• Amorphous silicon x-ray detectors find PCB flaws
• Machine vision, data acquisition converge
• Resampling line-scan camera data

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Analyze the highest speed signals
• SemiProbe announces LA-150 Lab Assistant probe system
• AC electronic loads deliver up to 4500 W
• Ethernet switch supports IEEE 1588
• Rigol expands low-end DSO line

• Tech Trends
• Instrumentation
• IEEE 1588 moves into new fields

• Test Digest
• Communications Test
• Channel emulation supports mobile MIMO
• Product Tryout
• An MSO for your computer

• Viewpoint
• How to untangle test complexity (continued)