Test & Measurement World - September 1, 2009

At the Intertek facility in Boxborough, MA, where a new building houses what the company says is the only independent 10-m anechoic chamber in New England, engineers perform compliance and precompliance tests for EMC and safety as well as numerous other types of tests.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• GM’s meaningless 230-mpg spec for Volt
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Test Voices
• Linux works for test
• Viewpoint
• Test’s essential ingredient: flexibility

• Features
• Production Test
• Test system upgrades can expose problems
• Sensors
• Light sensors pack in greener features
• Test Ideas
• Test Ideas: Pulse generator aids IC testing

• PXI Test Report
• Guest Commentary
• Customizing PXI test systems with FPGAs
• Highlights
• Highlights
• PXI Report
• Production test evolves with PXI
• Using a real-time OS with PXI

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Goepel supports double-sided in-line THT inspection
• Analyze multiple optical networks
• NI VeriStand 2009 serves test and simulation applications
• Suss adds 1MX technology to |Z| Probe line
• Decoupling network meets IEC and ANSI specs

• Tech Trends
• Design, Test and Yield
• CAST supports cooperation among ATE firms
• Machine Vision
• New building blocks for LED lighting

• Test Digest
• Book Review
• It’s the interconnects that count
• Communications Test
• Verify Ethernet networks