Test & Measurement


Test solution for 3GPP Release 14 location services for NB-IoT

Rohde & Schwarz and CommSolid have completed the verification of 3GPP Release 14 location services (LCS), which is one of the new positioning technologies for NB-IoT. The Cat-NB2 verification was done with CommSolid's NB-IoT modem solution

Rohde & Schwarz | 27-02-2018

Arrow – Collaboration to deliver full IoT technology lifecycle experience

Arrow Electronics has announced it is collaborating with Microsoft, to deliver a customer enablement experience based on a real use-case software, hardware and services solution aligned with the company's mission to give complete IoT soluti

Arrow | 26-02-2018

Sensor IC for high-speed heart rate measurement offers class-leading detection accuracy and low power use

ROHM has released an optical heart rate sensor for smart bands and watches, that, with its high-speed 1024Hz sampling, can be employed for measuring blood pressure, stress and vascular age. The BH1792GLC is the second pulse wave sensor to b

ROHM Semiconductor | 23-02-2018

Evaluation board extends lifetime of module on a single battery

RECOM has released a breakout board to connect SensiEDGE's SensiBLE v1.0 sensor module to their R-78S evaluation board. This technology allows the SensiBLE to draw a stable 3.3V from a AA battery to below voltages as low as 0.65V. Engineers

Recom International | 23-02-2018

Simulator uses 20 simultaneous 100Mbps data streams to achieve peak throughput

Anritsu has worked with Qualcomm Technologies to successfully confirm peak download speeds of 2Gbps. The presentation uses a mobile test device, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem and a network simulator using 5CC with 4x4 MIM

Anritsu | 19-02-2018

Vector network analyser capabilities added to low-cost credit-card-sized, reconfigurable instrument

Red Pitaya is pioneering the move to open-source, low cost, reconfigurable instrumentation with its credit-card-sized STEMlab platform has launched a VNA new bridge module and application that allows STEMLab to operate an affordable VNA, a

Red Pitaya | 19-02-2018

Moveable over-the-air test chamber for 5G antennas and transceivers

The new R&S ATS1000 antenna test chamber from Rohde & Schwarz enables developers and production engineers to perform OTA measurements for 5G on their antenna modules, chipsets, transceivers and wireless devices. Antenna and transceiver meas

Rohde & Schwarz | 16-02-2018

New 2D Hall-effect speed and direction sensor ICs for motor and magnetic encoder applications

Allegro MicroSystems Europe has released a new family of 2D Hall-Effect Latch ICs featuring both planar and vertical Hall elements. The APS12625 and APS12626 sensor ICs offer reduced system size and BOM cost along with an increase in perfo

Allegro | 15-02-2018

New platform to track and identify abnormal power quality events

Electrotek Concepts offers its new PQView 4 software that gives utilities a platform to identify and track abnormal power quality events. The software enables an advanced approach to fault detection and characterisation of power quality irr

Electrotek Concepts | 15-02-2018

Low-power, waterproof MEMS sensor delivers accurate pressure and temp reads

Mouser is now stocking the ICP-10100 MEMS capacitive barometric pressure sensor from InvenSense, a TDK Group company. The ICP-10100 achieves the industry’s lowest pressure noise and power consumption and ensures excellent temperature stabil

Mouser Electronics | 14-02-2018

Pressure sensors meet demands of high volume medical devices and commercial appliance applications

The Honeywell MPR Series, available now from RS Components, is a tiny piezoresistive silicon pressure sensor enabling a digital output for reading pressure over the defined full-scale temperature range and pressure span. It is calibrated an

RS Components | 14-02-2018

Capacitive touch meets compact size in new LED sensor series

Visual Communications Company (VCC) has recently launched the CSM Series surface mount capacitive touch LED sensor, which claims to have the smallest footprint in the industry. The CSM Series Capacitive Touch Sensor Displays are unique

VCC | 14-02-2018

Higher line productivity and lower costs with automatic testing for next-generation mobile devices

Anritsu Corporation has released three new software packages to expand the measurement standards supported by the Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870A, offering fast and fully automatic testing in accordance with the IEEE 802.11ax test speci

Anritsu | 07-02-2018

Ratiometric linear hall effect sensor for accurate position sensing in many application

The DRV5055 device, from Texas Instruments, is a linear Hall effect sensor that reacts proportionally to magnetic flux density. The device can be used for precise position sensing in a broad range of applications. The device operates fr

Texas Instruments | 02-02-2018

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