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Tektronix to tout scopes, embedded instruments at ESC Boston

Tektronix will make use of the Embedded Systems Conference Boston as a venue to highlight its traditional instruments and embedded instrument technology, based on interviews with executives and managers at the company’s Beaverton, OR, headquarters. You can expect the company’s new oscilloscopes to be prominently displayed at the Tektronix booth at ESC, including the 33-GHz... More

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ESC Boston exhibitor touts JTAG to boost NVM programming speed

Although originally conceived as a means of testing component interconnectivity on a printed-circuit board, boundary-scan technology also offers a window into the inner workings of a chip. That window also provides a means of programming NVM (nonvolatile memory). However, the traditional method of programming NVM via the boundary-scan TAP (Test Access Port) can be slow. Simply reading every... More

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Tektronix mixes domains

Engineers are increasingly working in both the time and frequency domains as the products they are designing increasingly incorporate wireless functionality. To help them out, Tektronix has introduced what it calls a mixed-domain oscilloscope (MDO), which combines the functionality of an oscilloscope and a spectrum analyzer in a single instrument. The combination saves bench space,... More

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ESC Boston offers integration-and-test track

Systems integration and test will be the focus of a Thursday, September 29, track at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston . The track will feature four 75-minute sessions on software certification, a C test harness for embedded systems, model-based testing, and scenario testing. Shan Bhattacharya, a field application engineer at LDRA , will begin the track at 9:30 a.m. with a session... More

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HP looks to spin-off PC business

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP is looking to sell its low-margin PC business.  The Journal says the move is a reversal of HP’s purchase of Compaq 10 years ago. The Journal quotes its own report from 2001: “At its most basic, the deal would bring Compaq, the world’s No. 2 maker of personal computers, under the umbrella of H-P, a distant No. 3,... More