Test & Measurement World - May 1, 2009

In December 1999, six firefighters in Worcester lost their lives because they couldn’t find their way out of a burning warehouse building through heavy smoke. This tragedy led professors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to initiate the PPL (Precision Personnel Locator) system project. When completed, the RF-based PPL system should enable rescue teams to find injured firefighters in burning buildings.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Finally time to Twitter
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Show Highlights
• MSC 2009: Measurement quality remains important
• OFCNFOEC 2009: Broadband demand continues
• Viewpoint
• Going beyond design for test

• Features
• RF Test
• Testing DigRF for 3G handsets
• Test Ideas
• Test Ideas: Program resistance in a bridge circuit

• PXI Test Report
• Guest Commentary
• PXI instrumentation rivals benchtop performance
• Highlights
• Highlights
• PXI Report
• PXI pulls military duty
• Reduce test costs with careful PXI design

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Oscilloscopes challenge low-end market
• Mohr adds Internet streaming to TDR cable testers
• Test suite aimed at all-wireless networks
• Vision Research rolls out 4-Mpixel camera
• Digitizer cards handle wide-ranging applications

• Tech Trends
• Design, Test and Yield
• APEX: Panelists tout test and inspection
• Machine Vision
• Ordering from the vision menu

• Test Digest
• Book Review
• A LabView short course
• Power Meters
• Power meters gear up for Smart Grid service
• RF Test
• Signal generator, power sensor test DME