May 1, 2008

Testing toward secure networks
When you make an online transaction or use a bank's teller machine, you trust that the financial institution's networks will protect your valuable information. Data centers of major financial institutions and other businesses use security platforms from Crossbeam Systems to protect their networks and your data. Read More

Enabling seamless WiMAX fabric
Chipsets are emerging that add WiMAX capability to mobile PC and cellphone applications, while lab and production test equipment evolves to keep pace. Read More

Modified thermal chamber cuts EMI
RF ICs such as GSM SOC devices must operate within power and frequency limits over a specified temperature range. Guarding against unwanted signals and testing at specified temperatures are both easy to do, but not at the same time. Read More

Electrons remain important in electronics test
Test engineers are struggling to optimize PCB test and inspection strategies as board complexity increases and manufacturing gets outsourced. Finding the right mix of test and inspection technologies was the topic of a panel at APEX. Read More

Should intelligence be hidden?
Are embedded systems becoming too embedded? That's a feeling I get from two contrasting shows in San Jose last month. Read More

The trifecta that almost everyone loses
The era of cheap goods is ending--that s the view from sources ranging from a variety of observers. Read More

Amid fanfare, Carl Zeiss SMT opens North American headquarters
At what the company billed as "the smallest ribbon-cutting ceremony in history," Carl Zeiss SMT opened its North American headquarters in Peabody, MA. Read More

PCB Piezotronics debuts mini MEMS shock accelerometers
Offered in both single-axis and triaxial configurations, the Series 3991/3993 MEMS-based shock accelerometers have a measurement range of 20,000 g and are intended for aerospace and defense applications. Read More

Ixia launches end-to-end service verification platform for
triple play
Using active customer traffic over the customer’s delivery path to validate service, the IxRave remote QoE and service validation platform measures true end-to-end performance for multiplay services across an entire network. Read More

B&K Precision software updates IC testers' device library
With B&K Precision's AK57X software kit, you can add functional tests for new ICs to the device libraries of the Model 570A analog and Model 575A digital handheld IC testers. Read More

New Challenge for May
Answer our May oscilloscope challenge question correctly, and you could be eligible to win a prize.

Question: Why do the rules for rise time differ in analog and digital oscilloscopes?
Prize: TomTom ONE GPS
Sponsor: Yokogawa

Take the Oscilloscope Challenge

Industry calendar of events
Upcoming events include Design Automation Conference, The Vision Show, and the International Microwave Symposium, all in June. For
more information about these and other test-related events, visit our online calendar.