Test & Measurement


Improved performance and extended service life for remote motion detection

Excelitas Technologies’ low-power DigiPyro PYD 1688, now available from Digi-Key, is the latest addition to their industry-leading family of digital pyrodetectors. This digital pyrodetector operates on reduced power consumption and features

Digikey | 27-04-2016

Configurable platform of medium-duty switches that allow the customer to choose SPDT or DPDT

Available now from TTI Europe, Honeywell’s Micro Switch compact limit switches, NGC Series, are a configurable platform of medium-duty switches that allow the customer to choose SPDT (single pole, double throw) or DPDT (double pole, double

TTI Europe | 27-04-2016

Mixed domain oscilloscopes offer fast acquisition and full suite of automated measures

Available from RS Components, the Tektronix MDO4000C mixed domain oscilloscopes offer fast acquisition, selectable record length and a full suite of automated measurements to help resolve debug challenges quickly. Add-ons and accessories ar

RS Components | 26-04-2016

Easy-to-use test tool comprising oscilloscope, multimeter and high-speed recorder

New from RS Components, the Fluke 125B is a 40MHz model in the manufacturer’s industrial ScopeMeter 120B Series. Each 120B model is an easy-to-use integrated test tool comprising oscilloscope, multimeter and high-speed recorder. It includes

RS Components | 25-04-2016

Relative humidity sensor designed for high volume, cost-sensitive applications

TE Connectivity offers its HS1101LF relative humidity sensor in a through-hole TO39 with side operating plastic cap packaging and is available now from Digi-Key. This relative humidity sensor is based on a unique capacitive, and designed

Digikey | 25-04-2016

Ambient light sensor enables human-eye spectral sensitivity

A new high-accuracy digital ambient light sensor for consumer and industrial applications has been introduced by Vishay. The s VEML6030 combines a highly-sensitive photo-diode, low-noise amplifier, and 16-bit ADC in a miniature, transparen

Vishay | 25-04-2016

Sensor interface analog front end simplifies sensor conditioning

The latest addition to Exar's family of analog front end sensor interfaces integrates high channel count and functionality in a tiny 3.5mm x 3.5mm footprint. The XR18910 provides 14-bit signal path linearity and is designed to connect analo

EXAR Europe | 25-04-2016

Innovative USB-based spectrum analyzer range expands

The new Tektronix RSA500 and RSA600 series of analyzers offer frequency coverage from 9kHz up to 7.5GHz with 40MHz acquisition bandwidth, a measurement dynamic range from -161dBm/Hz displayed average noise level, and up to +30dBm maximum

Tektronix | 21-04-2016

New system offers more performance to transducer data acquisition in rugged applications

Vishay Precision Group's Pacific Instruments division has announced that it is offering two new data acquisition systems (DAS) that broaden the instruments product line of the Micro-Measurements brand. The PI 7200 and PI 7300 DAS bring new

Vishay Precision Group | 21-04-2016

Accurate three dimensional and integrated temperature sensing with low power consumption

The TLV493D-A1B6 3D magnetic sensor from Infineon Technologies is now being stocked by Mouser. The sensor offers accurate three dimensional sensing plus integrated temperature sensing with low power consumption. Within its small six-pin pac

Mouser Electronics | 20-04-2016

Transducers consume less current and provide high EMC performance

Now available from Mouser, Honeywell PX3 heavy duty pressure transducers use piezoresistive sensing technology with ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) signal conditioning in the brass housing. These transducers integrate a Metri

Mouser Electronics | 19-04-2016

Spectrum analyzer embraces narrowband wireless equipment and devices

Anritsu has added a new combined spectrum analyzer and signal analyzer, the MS2840A, to its range of market-leading test and measurement solutions available for the R&D and manufacturing of wireless equipment and devices. Most modern s

Anritsu | 18-04-2016

Wideband Frequency Synthesizer with Integrated VCO

This post is sponsored by Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments’ LMX2592 is a low-noise, wideband RF PLL with integrated VCO that supports a frequency range from 20MHz to 9.8GHz. The device supports both fractional-N and integer-N modes,

Texas Instruments | 14-04-2016

nvSRAM with quad serial peripheral interface

Cypress has added an interface to its industry-leading nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) portfolio and is available from Digi-Key. The 1MB quad SPI nvSRAM meets the data throughput performance of 45ns, high-speed parallel NVRAM with the reduced pin c

Digikey | 14-04-2016

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