Wednesday, November 25, 2020
作者：Tektronix ExpertsRemember in Power Rangers when each of the rangers’ mechs would come together to form the Megazord? We have a new software feature that functions similarly for our oscilloscopes. On their own our 5 and 6 Series oscilloscopes can each have 8 channels. But if you connect four 8-channel scopes through our Multi-Scope software, you can view, control, and analyze data in real-time from 32 channels. 4 …
Automated test systems can live a long time. I often work with engineers who are supporting test systems that were designed and built a decade or more earlier. In many cases, the engineer wasn’t even part of the development of the system. As a test and measurement manufacturer, at some point, instruments become too expensive or even impossible to build – usually due to scarcity of parts. And …
Consider a scenario where three engineers are collaborating from different teams across the globe to characterize and debug an intermittent current spike discovered during validation testing.
How much time would they spend in data sharing, inspection, and analysis? Would each engineer be able to explore the data? Would they use screenshots and email, because it’s too cumbersome to utilize the …
A hurricane. A blizzard. Driving rain. So much of life depends on the weather. Accurate forecasts can literally save lives, and the National Weather Service counts on Tektronix equipment and calibration to be sure their forecasting technology is constantly up to date.
Tektronix mobile service operation calibration technicians travel roughly 270 days a year to keep National Weather Service Doppler …
Tektronix moved into its campus in Beaverton, Oregon in May, 1959, and has been a staple in the community ever since. The company is Oregon’s first high technology firm and was instrumental to the creation of the “Silicon Forest”. Located about 20 minutes west of downtown Portland and just an hour from the Oregon Coast, Beaverton offers the allure of a diverse, big city and the quality of life …
Semiconductor companies and semiconductor researchers are constantly looking for ways to make devices fail in the lab in order to prevent failures in the field. Countless hours are spent by failure analysis (FA) engineers trying to understand why a device failed and how it can be prevented in the future. This is vital as many devices are used in mission critical applications where “failure is not …
Debugging embedded systems often involves looking for clues that are hard to discover just by looking at one domain at a time. The ability to look at time and frequency domains simultaneously can offer important insights. Mixed-domain analysis is especially useful for answering questions such as:
What’s going on with my power rail voltage when I’m transmitting wireless data?
Where are …
The regular calibration of sensitive medical equipment test instrumentation such as temperature sensors, pressure transducers and weighing instruments is mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Precise and repeatable measurements are crucial for test equipment being used in the medical equipment given the increased risk associated with non-compliance for medical device …
All Tektronix Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers can be triggered based on a RF power threshold to help acquire specific signal bursts into memory for analysis. The family of USB-based RSAs include this capability. This blog will review some of the details of the RF Power trigger characteristics and settings to help you most effectively apply triggering to your application. This applies to the RSA306B …
One key change since Tektronix began using the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard is that customers need to confirm their understanding of the decision rule we use to determine an in tolerance or out of tolerance condition when completing ISO/IEC 17025 accredited calibration.
This blog will walk you through the three decision rules that may be used.
In/Out-of-Tolerance Determination (Default …
The RF pulse characteristics of a radar reveal a great deal about a its capability. Electronic Warfare (EW) and Electronic lntelligence (ELINT) experts specialize in the study of these pulsed signals. Pulse characteristics provide valuable information about the type of radar producing a signal and what its source might be; sailboat, battleship, passenger plane, bomber, missile, etc. But how do you …
