Product Update

The TTX series of power supplies comprises a 400-W unit in a 3U form factor and a 700-W unit in a 6U form factor.

• 48-VDC input.
• Output voltages of 3.3, 5, and ±12 V.
• Use MOSFETs in place of ORing diodes to reduce heat dissipation.

Base price: $500. Tracewell Power, Lewis Center, OH. 614-847-9336. www.tracewellpower.com.

Equipped with 32 analog-output channels, the PD2-AO-32 single-slot PCI board comes in both high-voltage and high-current versions.

• HC model supplies 90 mA/channel continuously.
• HV model generates ±40 V/channel.
• 16-bit resolution and ±0.05% output accuracy.

Price: $2995. United Electronic Industries, Watertown, MA. 800-829-4632. www.ueidaq.com.

PCI bus boards in the ESH 1000 series control either stepping motors or servomotors with two or four axes.

• 16-bit precision, or 1 part in 65,536.
• Velocities to approximately 1,044,000 pulses/s.
• Provide optically isolated general-purpose control bits.

CyberResearch, Branford, CT. 203-483-8815. www.cyberresearch.com.

Hot-swap-capable, the CP3-Quad100TX furnishes four independent 10BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet interfaces on a 3U CompactPCI card.

• 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI bus interface.
• Supports combined data rates of up to 800 Mbps full duplex and 400 Mbps half duplex.
• Four front-panel RJ45 connectors.

Price: $899. SBS Technologies, St. Paul, MN. 651-905-4700. www.sbs.com.

An upgrade to the DI-730 PC-based data-acquisition and control system increases maximum voltage measurement to ±1000 V full scale.

• 14-bits ADC.
• EPP, USB, or Ethernet interface.
• 250,000 samples/s.

Base price: $2995. Dataq Instruments, Akron, OH. 330-668-1444. www.dataq.com.

The DXC-C33, a three-CCD remote-head color video camera, provides digital video output for industrial inspection and microscopy applications.

• Camera head measures 32x38x40 mm.
• Resolution of 768x494 pixels.
• Signal-to-noise ratio of 62 dB.

Price: $5295. Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, NJ. 800-686-7669. www.sony.com.

Outfitted with a ¹/₃-in. color CCD sensor, the CV-M77 progressive-scan camera boasts 2.5 times higher resolution than its predecessor, the CV-M70.

• Resolution of 1034x779 pixels.
• 25 frames/s of RGB video output.
• Fixed and programmable shutter speeds.

Base price: $1995. Delivery: four weeks. JAI America, Laguna Hills, CA. 949-472-5900. www.jai.com.

GrabLink Value is a PCI bus frame grabber with a digital Camera Link interface.

• Works with area-scan and line-scan cameras.
• Acquires up to 24 bits at a maximum clock speed of 66 MHz.
• 8-Mbyte frame buffer.

Euresys, Dallas, TX. 214-265-6565. www.euresys.com.

Two additions to the DALSTAR series of area-scan cameras, the 4M30 and 6M18, offer a choice of resolution and frame rates.

• 4M30—resolution of 2048x2048 pixels at up to 30 frames/s.
• 6M18—resolution of 3072x2048 pixels at up to 18 frames/s.
• 12-bit digitization and four camera outputs.

Dalsa, Waterloo, ON, Canada. 519-886-6000. www.dalsa.com.

Linos Photonics' line of C-mount manual-iris lenses is intended for CCD area-scan and line-scan cameras in all formats up to 1 in.

• Optimal field correction for all applications.
• Color correction for visual and near-infrared range.
• Manual lockable focus and iris mechanism.

Linos Photonics, Milford, MA. 508-478-6200. www.linos-photonics.com.

Delta Probe high-density test clips accommodate QFP, TSOP, SOIC, and other fine-pitch IC packages.

• Available in more than 10 sizes, pin counts, and form factors.
• Cover pin counts ranging from 44 to 240.
• Handle pitches from 1.27 to 0.5 mm.

Base price: $525. Adapters.com, Santa Clara, CA. 408-855-8527. www.adapters.com.

The SpeedTip cantilever-based probe card accommodates 1.2 to 2.5 Gbps RF test rates.

• Handles 2 to 16 RF lines.
• Total probe length of less than 0.250 in.
• A metal ring extends the ground plane over all probes.

Kulicke & Soffa, Willow Grove, PA. 215-784-6000. www.kns.com.

The Femto 3200, a distributed timing test system, offers programmable and differential timing measurements on its 32 channels.

• Useful for serial I/O, Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, Fibre Channel, and high-speed clock testing.
• Simplifies frequency, skew, and jitter verification.

GuideTech, Sunnyvale, CA. 408-733-6555, ext. 250. www.guidetech.com.

In addition to a 1-GHz bandwidth, the LT584 Waverunner-2 oscilloscope delivers a sampling rate of 2 Gsamples/s on four channels.

• 250,000 points of acquisition memory per channel.
• Easy access to signal measurements.

Price: $18,490. Delivery: four to six weeks. LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, NY. 914-425-2000. www.lecroy.com.

Small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, Wavetek Meterman Test Tools' DM73B pen-shaped, probe-style digital multimeter achieves an accuracy of ±0.5%.

• Measures AC and DC voltage, resistance, and continuity.
• Analog bar graph and 3400-count digital display.
• Touch-Hold function freezes the measurement value on the display.

Price: $49.95. Wavetek Meterman Test Tools, Everett, WA. 425-446-5070. www.metermantesttools.com.

Complete with a built-in signal generator, the GP102 voltmeter measures phase angle, in-phase, quadrature (90° component), fundamental, and total rms.

• Measurements from 10 mHz–2 MHz.
• Useful for LVDT/RVDT testing, amplifier/magnetic phase measurement, and general AC null and ratio measurements.
• IEEE-488, RS-232, and parallel printer interfaces.

Price: $9880. Delivery: four to six weeks. Clarke-Hess Communications Research, Long Island City, NY. 718-784-0445. www.clarke-hess.com.

Built on a single-slot short card, Vmetro's PBT-615DX contains a logic analyzer, an exerciser, and a protocol checker for the PCI-X and the PCI bus.

• Hardware-based trigger and store qualifiers.
• Samples at up to 100 MHz.
• Optional 500-MHz timing analyzer.

Base price: $13,245. Vmetro, Houston, TX. 281-584-0728. www.vmetro.com.

Plugged into a computer's PCI bus, the PCI-AI12-16A-TM hardware/software package offers out-of-the-box temperature monitoring.

• Includes an ADC card.
• 16 or 32 type K thermocouples.
• 16-channel analog multiplexer.

Base price: $3129. Delivery: four to six weeks. Acces I/O Products, San Diego, CA. 858-550-9559. www.accesioproducts.com.

You can measure and simulate all types of temperature sensors with the Calys 10 portable calibrator.

• Accurate to within ±0.2% at process scale.
• 25 types of RTDs and thermocouples.
• Measures pressure from 1 to 1000 bar.

AOIP, Courcouronnes, France. +33-1-69-36-50-60. www.aoip.com.

Suitable for rugged industrial environments as well as clean rooms, the TA truck-in/walk-in oven operates at up to 650°F.

• Uniform, horizontal recirculating airflow system.
• Comes with the programmable, microprocessor-controlled Protocol Plus controller.
• Multiple operations are controlled by up to eight programs, with eight ramp and soak segments in each program.

Despatch Industries, Minneapolis, MN. 800-828-9903. www.despatch.com.

Portable and compact, the Model CA846 digital meter measures both temperature and relative humidity.

• One-hand operation.
• Uses a Pt385/1000-V RTD and a thin-film polymer capacitive-type RH sensor.
• MAX and HOLD functions.

AEMC Instruments, Foxborough, MA. 508-698-2115. www.aemc.com.

The benchtop 86146B and the portable 86144B isolate DWDM signals for characterization and analysis.

• Measure the time-resolved chirp of lasers.
• Filter mode handles single-channel measurement.
• External single-mode monochromator output.

Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA. 800-452-4844, Ext. 7635. www.agilent.com.

Offered in four standard configurations, the light-current-voltage test system is designed for production testing of laser diode chips, bars, and modules.

• Sub-microsecond pulse testing.
• Continuous-wave testing up to a maximum of 5 A.
• Internal source and measurement algorithms.

Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, OH. 440-248-0400. www.keithley.com.

Measure very small levels of polarization mode dispersion in narrowband DWDM channels and broadband components with the FPMD-5600 analyzer.

• PMD characterization from a few femtoseconds to several tens of picoseconds.
• Single-button measurements speed throughput.

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering, Vanier, QC, Canada. 418-683-0211. www.exfo.com.

The BN-0101 luminance/radiance light source calibrates the absolute sensitivity and transmittance uniformity of imaging systems.

• Uses a 250-mm-diameter integrating sphere coated with an optically diffuse material.
• Signal level control from 1000 cd/m² to 35000 cd/m².
• Greater than 98% white-diffuse reflectance throughout the visible and near-infrared spectral range.

Price: $21,296. Gigahertz-Optik, Newburyport, MA. 978-462-1818. www.gigahertz-optik.com.

RF power meters in the Model 4730 series sample up to 200 readings/s.

• Measure power from–70 to +44 dBm.
• Frequency range of 10 kHz to 40 GHz.
• Dual channels in a VXI configuration.

Boonton Electronics, Parsippany, NJ. 973-386-9696. www.boonton.com.

Two plug-in microwave switches boast an 18-GHz bandwidth and a minimum switching life of 5 million operations.

• Model 1260-160B is a single-slot unit with two SPDT relays.
• Model 1260-160E is a two-slot unit with five SPDT relays.
• Operate with the Adapt-A-Switch 1260-100 VXI carrier or the 1256 GPIB/RS-232 switching mainframe.

Base price: $1595. Racal Instruments, Irvine, CA. 949-460-6747. www.racalinstruments.com.

The Model 1031 automatic test system addresses production test requirements of multi-port microwave transceiver modules.

• Operates to 20 GHz.
• Comprises a spectrum analyzer, vector network analyzer, synthesized sources, power meter, noise source, and power supply.

In-Phase Technologies, Clarksburg, NJ. 609-259-8555. www.in-phasetech.com.