Industry news, industry trends, and applications for engineers involved in production testing of wafers, semiconductors, printed circuit boards, and subsystems.
NI introduces PXI modules and chassis for automated test 07/01/2009
The NI PXIe-6544/45 digital waveform generator/analyzers, which support clock rates of up to 100 and 200 MHz, and the eight-slot NI PXIe-1082 chassis are aimed at high-speed semiconductor device and HD multimedia testing.
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2009 Buyer's Guide 07/01/2009
Our 2009 Buyer's Guide contains more than 60 product and service categories, divided into five main sections with a total of 16 subsections. Each section includes hotlinked vendor names and a sampling of products from the past year.
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Design and test firms address microwave challenges Rick Nelson, Editor in Chief - 07/01/2009
Exhibits at 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium ran the gamut from design and simulation through high-speed production test.
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When robots meet vision Larry Maloney, Contributing Technical Editor - 07/01/2009
Adding machine vision to a production process presents a challenge to most engineers, but what happens when you combine vision with robotics? The answer is that it's no walk in the park, yet more and more companies are pairing the two technologies.
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For the past 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government, and academia approach measurement...
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