Test & Measurement World - November 1, 2010

Engineers at Aircell have been working to bring WiFi service to commercial airline passengers, and the torrid pace of their efforts led to the first implementation aboard an American Airlines jet in 2008, less than three years after the company demonstrated airborne WiFi capability on a test flight in 2005.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Becoming a purple squirrel
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Show Highlights
• Autotestcon: Modular instruments debut at MIL-focused conference
• Test Voices
• Absorbing light, making energy
• Viewpoint
• How test targets time to market

• Features
• Instrumentation
• De-embedding improves measurement accuracy
• Test Ideas
• Test Ideas: Microcontroller runs relay endurance test

• Mechatronics in Design
• Control design: pervasive and perplexing

• PXI Test Report
• PXI Report
• PXISA is keeping up the momentum
• PXI: One success story drives another (Guest Commentary)
• Highlights
• PXI RF development shifts focus

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Vision system employs four cameras
• FloTherm 9 addresses thermal bottlenecks
• Counter/timers go for speed and resolution
• MVTec's Halcon 10 expands 3-D capabilities
• Saelig offers $99 logic analyzer/signal generator
• Module sports four CAN interfaces

• Tech Trends
• Design, Test and Yield
• GPUs boost design and simulation
• Machine Vision
• Inspection gets ultra-high-speed cameras

• Test Digest
• Communications Test
• Ethernet standard to cut energy use
• Oscilloscopes
• 2-GHz scopes show versatility