page_title: Electronic test equipment
hierarchical_section_title: Electronic test equipment
caption_attribution_description: English: Scope cart with additional test equipment.
context_page_description: Electronic test equipment is used to create signals and capture responses from electronic devices under test. In this way, the proper operation of the DUT can be proven or faults in the device can be traced. Use of electronic test equipment is essential to any serious work on electronics systems.
  Practical electronics engineering and assembly requires the use of many different kinds of electronic test equipment ranging from the very simple and inexpensive to extremely complex and sophisticated such as automatic test equipment. ATE often includes many of these instruments in real and simulated forms.
  Generally, more advanced test gear is necessary when developing circuits and systems than is needed when doing production testing or when troubleshooting existing production units in the field.
context_section_description: Electronic test equipment is used to create signals and capture responses from electronic devices under test (DUTs). In this way, the proper operation of the DUT can be proven or faults in the device can be traced. Use of electronic test equipment is essential to any serious work on electronics systems.
  Practical electronics engineering and assembly requires the use of many different kinds of electronic test equipment ranging from the very simple and inexpensive (such as a test light consisting of just a light bulb and a test lead) to extremely complex and sophisticated such as automatic test equipment (ATE). ATE often includes many of these instruments in real and simulated forms.
  Generally, more advanced test gear is necessary when developing circuits and systems than is needed when doing production testing or when troubleshooting existing production units in the field.
caption: Tektronix 7854 oscilloscope with curve tracer and time-domain reflectometer plug-ins. Lower module has a digital voltmeter, a digital counter, an old WWVB frequency standard receiver with phase comparator, and function generator.
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