Teradyne ETS-88 is the 2010 Test Product of the Year; EchoStar's Moder wins engineering award

Test & Measurement World honored the winners of our annual awards competitions during a ceremony held in Las Vegas.

-- Test & Measurement World, 4/7/2010 3:31:03 PM

On April 6, the editorial staff of Test & Measurement World announced that the Teradyne ETS-88 multisite test system has been selected as the 2010 Test Product of the Year. The announcement was made during a ceremony held in Las Vegas, during which we also honored the winners of the annual Test Engineer of the Year award, Test of Time award, and Best in Test awards. The ETS-88, which won the Best in Test award in the Semiconductor Test category, received the most overall votes in the Best in Test balloting.

Lisa Moder, senior test engineer at EchoStar Technologies, was voted the 2010 Test Engineer of the Year by our readers. With EchoStar's SlingLoaded set-top box, consumers can view their satellite, cable, or off-air programs from anywhere in the world where an Internet connection is available. Moder, who works with EchoStar's contract manufacturers to to ensure their test lines are up and running successfully, was one of six finalists for the award and was profiled in the cover story in our April 2010 issue. As part of her award, Moder designated the Metropolitan State College of Denver to receive a $10,000 grant, courtesy of National Instruments.

We announced the finalists for our annual product awards in our December/January issue, and the winners were chosen by the vote of our readers and editorial staff. The winner of the Test of Time award, which recognizes a product that continues to provide state-of-the-art service more than five years after its introduction, is the 89600 Vector Signal Analysis Software from Agilent Technologies. The 89600 was one of seven finalists for the 2010 award. Agilent says the 89600 is the first PC-based signal-analysis software, the first software to make measurements with more than one signal-analyzer platform, the first software to perform wideband vector signal analysis up to 36 MHz, and the first software to analyze over 70 signal formats.

Our annual Best in Test awards recognize important and innovative new products and services in the electronics test and measurement industry. This year, we announced finalists in 17 categories. The winners are:

Audio/video and multimedia
MMTS Moving Video Test System, VI Technology

Bit-error-rate testers
J-BERT, Agilent Technologies

Board and system test
URT 5.0 Universal Receiver Tester, Averna

Communications network test
T-BERD/MTS-4000 Multiple Services Test Platform, JDSU

Computer bus analyzers
PCIe Jammer Error-Injection Tool, Agilent Technologies

Data acquisition
NI X Series Devices for PCI Express and PXI Express, National Instruments

DFT, boundary scan, and emulation
JULIET Desktop JTAG Tester, GOEPEL Electronic

EMC and safety test
NSG 3040 EMC Multifunction Generator, Teseq

Fiber optics
N4391A Optical Modulation Analyzer, Agilent Technologies

General-purpose instruments (non-oscilloscopes)
EX1200 Series Switch/Measure System, VTI Instruments

Machine vision and inspection
BOA Vision System, DALSA

Oscilloscopes
MSO70000, Tektronix

RF/microwave instruments (general purpose)
N9030A PXA Signal Analyzer, Agilent Technologies

Semiconductor test
ETS-88 Multisite Test System, Teradyne

Test components and subsystems
EX72SF Microwave Switching Subsystem, VTI Instruments

Test-development and analysis software
Proligent Analytics, Averna

Wireless test (standard specific)
ACE MX MIMO Channel Emulator, Azimuth Systems

Read more about our awards program and about past winners at T&MW Awards Programs.