As device complexity challenges the test industry to keep pace, the exponentially increasing price tags of 'big-iron' test equipment continue to come under fire. Click here to load an Acrobat file that describes the new product. Acterna releases a product designed to measure RF signal propagation in the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System frequency range. Teradyne's system can test more than sixty SerDes ports simultaneously at high speeds. Ansoft helps you apply system, circuit, and electromagnetic field simulators to optical communication systems and RFIC designs.
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Accuracy A cross-spectral technique for measuring frequency response relaxes the the quality and precision requirements on signal generators. Drift, amplitude stability, flatness, noise, and distortion become irrelevant. Paton argues that you can decrease test time, reduce operator intervention, and trim the equipment needed to do product verification by means of a well-designed optical switching matrix in a functional test system. Its toolset comprises a digital o'scope and software that makes instantaneous power measurements, and looks at saturation and dynamic turn-on resistance, safe operating area, and modulation of PWM and FM power supplies. It also scrutinizes line power, indicating real and apparent power, power-factor, and harmonic content.