Electronics industry news

Electronic product launches

Test and Measurement

Oscilloscope Probes

Oscilloscopes probes are often thought as a relatively unimportant add-on for oscilloscopes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their performance can enable a scope to perform to its best potential. A poor probe can considerably limited the performance of an otherwise high performance scope, making the costly investment perform as a much cheaper unit. Read more . . .

More in CATEGORY

• SUMMARY: Scope probe specifications
• SUMMARY: Oscilloscope tutorial
• SUMMARY: Analogue scope

Wireless

Bluetooth Technology

Bluetooth technology is now well established, providing communications for many short range applications - possibly the most widely used is for wire-less headsets for mobile phones. With the growing need for increased data rates for wireless communications for short ranges, Bluetooth has released new updates to the standard as well as a low energy version. Read more . . .

More in CATEGORY

• SUMMARY: Bluetooth radio interface & modulation
• SUMMARY: Bluetooth host - L2CAP, SDP, GAP
• SUMMARY: Bluetooth low energy, Wibree

Wireless

'Weightless' M2M White Space Communications Standard

The new 'Weightless' standard for M2M communications in white space has been developed to enable low cost machine to machine communications to take place with very high levels of coverage. Find out how this standard works.. Read more . . .

• SUMMARY: Zigbee

RF Topics

RF Mixer Technology

RF mixers are a key element in an RF design. Allowing RF signals to be mixed, or multiplied together they provide a means of enabling signal translation to occur as well as phase comparison and other processes. Read more . . .

More in CATEGORY

• SUMMARY: RF mixer specifications explained
• SUMMARY: Double balanced mixer

Test & Measurement

Maximising the Return from Testing

Jeremy Twaits, Automated Test Product Manager, National Instruments UK & Ireland, looks at ways of maximising the return from testing. Read more...

• Software Designed Instruments: What Are They?

Cellular telecommunications

Drive Testing: Challenges on the Road Ahead

Par Hulten, Ascom Network Testing & Mike McHale, Livingston outline the need for effective drive testing to properly evaluate wireless network performance. Read more...

Circuit Design

Electrostatic Discharge - ESD

Electrostatic Discharge, ESD is a major concern to anyone working with electronics components these days. It is important for anyone working with electronics equipment to have a good understanding of it. Read more . . .

• SUMMARY: ESD control process
• SUMMARY: ESD design guidelines

Test and Measurement

Function Generator

Function generators are a useful laboratory tool for generating a variety of different waveforms that may be required. Typically these include sine, square, pulse triangular and sawtooth waveforms. Read more . . .

More in CATEGORY

• SUMMARY: Function generator types
• SUMMARY: Function generator specs

Cellular telecommunications

Meeting the Challenging Requirements of High-Bandwidth RF Front Ends

Rodd Novak, Chief Marketing Officer of Peregrine Semiconductor looks at the combination of process, design and modelling technology for a sustainable path to satisfy growing industry needs. Read more...

• VIDEO: RF Switches for Front Ends

Most popular articles:

Articles by industry experts

•     ....   more articles ....