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Supply Chain Disruption? - Whitepaper

Supply Chain Disruption?

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted many businesses in a myriad of ways. The electronics design and production industry learned some hard lessons in supply chain management. Companies continue to struggle with supply chain woes due to residual effects and subsequent shutdowns in other countries.

 

State of the Industry 2022 - Whitepaper

State of the Industry 2022

Drawing feedback from engineers, technicians, researchers, and educators, this report provides insights into the current and near-future conditions facing electronics design and production engineers.

 

Your Roadmap to Soldering Supplies - Whitepaper

Your Roadmap to Soldering Supplies

You might be here because you are brand new to soldering. Or perhaps you already know a good deal about soldering, but you still have room to learn more. Or maybe you are a soldering expert.

 

What Engineers Learned During the Pandemic - Whitepaper

What Engineers Learned During the Pandemic

In 2019, product design and production were akin to the proverbial well-oiled machine. For design engineers, it was a year of relative ease in obtaining raw materials, tools, and components.

 

Keysight

Choosing the best passive and active oscilloscope probes - AppNote

Choosing the best passive and active oscilloscope probes

Selecting the right probe for your application and using the probe correctly is the first step toward reliable oscilloscope measurements.

 

Journey of a Signal - Whitepaper

Journey of a Signal

The second you connect your oscilloscope probe to your device, your signal begins a journey that happens in the blink of an eye. It must pass through five different “blocks” to complete its journey from your device to the oscilloscope then back to the display.

 

5 Common Mistakes Buying Scope - Whitepaper

5 Common Mistakes Buying Scope

Choosing the right oscilloscope can be a challenging task. The goal is to make the best purchase decision by getting the functionality you need while saving money and maintaining quality.

 

Evaluating Battery Run-Down with the N6781A or N6785A

Evaluating Battery Run-Down with the N6781A or N6785A

The N6781A (20 W) and N6785A (80 W) (SMUs) are tuned for battery drain analysis of battery-powered devices, which helps reduce test time and ensure product performance.

 

4 Ways to Build Your Power Supply Skill Set - eBook

4 Ways to Build Your Power Supply Skill Set - eBook

Whether you need a basic power supply or more sophisticated features for specific applications, this guide helps you select the power supply for your needs.

 

Get More Usable Power on the Bench or in a System

Get More Usable Power on the Bench or in a System

It is frustrating to realize that your power supply cannot provide the current your design requires, especially when your circuit needs less power than your supply delivers. Use this Application note to help with that decision.

 

How to Select the Right Current Probe

Keysight: How to Select the Right Current Probe

This app note covers the fundamental principles of current probes, the advantages and limitations of each probe type, and how to get the best use of your probes in different oscilloscope applications.

 

Measuring Battery life on Battery-powered Medical Devices - AppNote

Measuring Battery life on Battery-powered Medical Devices

A battery run-down test measures the time that a device can operate from a full battery charge. This is easier said than done, as there are many aspects in this test that every design engineer must consider.

 

7 Common Oscilloscope Probing Pitfalls to Avoid

7 Common Oscilloscope Probing Pitfalls to Avoid

Learn about pitfalls you might be making in your tests and how your measurements can be improved with better practices. Taking action to ensure these effects are within acceptable limits is a key step to successful measurements.

Probe soldering guidelines for Keysight InfiniiMax probes

Probe soldering guidelines for Keysight InfiniiMax probes

This guide provides helpful tips, recommended tools, and techniques specific to Keysight probes to help test engineers get the most out of their soldered-in probes and connections.

 

Keysight 8 Hints for Better Scope Probing

Keysight 8 Hints for Better Scope Probing

In this application note, you will find eight useful hints for selecting the right probe for your application and for making your scope probing better. Probing is critical for making quality oscilloscope measurements, and often a probe is the first link in your oscilloscope measurement chain.

4 Steps for Making Better Power Measurements

4 Steps for Making Better Power Measurements

This application note will provide you with a brief review of the four factors that influence the quality of your power measurements.

 

Electronic Load Fundamentals

Electronic Load Fundamentals

An electronic load is a test instrument designed to sink current and absorb power out of a power source. If a power supply is used to power a device, an electronic load is used to test the power supply by emulating the device under test (DUT).

 

Testing Switch Mode Power Supplies using your EXR

Keysight Testing Switch Mode Power Supplies using your EXR

This application note will cover the fundamental measurements of input, switching, and output analysis performed by this oscilloscope using the optional power analysis software (P/N: D9010PWRA).

 

Keysight 4 things to Consider

Keysight Dynamic Data Acquisition as a Logger

How do you manage test development cycle time? How do you choose the right components? How do you improve the accuracy of your results—while meeting project deadlines?

Specifying Calibration Standards and Kits for Keysight Vector Network Analyzers

Specifying Calibration Standards and Kits for Keysight Vector Network Analyzers

This application note covers calibration standard definitions, calibration kit content and its structure requirements for Keysight’s vector network analyzers. It also provides some examples of how to set up a new calibration kit and how to modify an existing calibration kit definition file.

 

Evaluating Oscilloscope Bandwidths for Your Application

Keysight Evaluating Oscilloscope Bandwidths for Your Application

In this application note we will provide you with some helpful hints on how to select an oscilloscope with the appropriate bandwidth for both your digital and analog applications.

 

Making Fast Pass/Fail Testing With BSA Spectrum Analyzers

Keysight BSA-C Spectrum Analyzers

Learn how to use the advanced window limit feature in the BSA spectrum analyzer to make rapid Pass/Fail determinations on measurement results.

 

Keysight Generate Pulses

Keysight Trueform Function Generators

IQ signals dominate communications with their efficient use of bandwidth. Here’s what you need to know about testing them.

Keysight Generate Pulses

Keysight Dynamic Data Acquisition System

To keep up with modern electronics, you need fast, versatile data acquisition (DAQ) test systems that provide precise, reliable measurements across the widest range of signal types.

Tektronix

Probe Selection Guide

Tektronix Probe Selection Guide

Selecting the right probe for your application and using the probe correctly is the first step toward reliable oscilloscope measurements.

 

Tektronix General & Special Purpose Supplies & Electronic Loads

Tektronix General & Special Purpose Supplies & Electronic Loads

Choose the best power supply for your application. Tektronix and Keithley offer a comprehensive portfolio of bench power supplies to address your power sourcing needs from basic to the most challenging requirements for automated test, education, precision testing of low power, portable devices, and research & development.

Tektronix Evolving Materials and Testing for Emerging Generations of Power

Tektronix Evolving Materials and Testing for Emerging Generations of Power

Transitioning from silicon to wide bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride means that power module designs can be physically smaller than what came before, while also increasing MOSFET switching speed and energy efficiency.

Tektronix Detecting Drones Using a Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer AppNote

Tektronix Detecting Drones Using a Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer

No one denies, flying a drone can be fun. For RC and photography enthusiasts, a drone is a source of entertainment, and with a camera attached, a provider of breathtaking birdseye views.

Tektronix What to Know When Calibrating Sophisticated T&M Equipment

Tektronix What to Know When Calibrating Sophisticated T&M Equipment

Rapid growth in infrastructure technologies like 5G and semiconductors as well as an overall increase in the use of electronic and RF components in consumer products is fueling significant growth in the demand for the sophisticated test and measurement equipment required during the manufacturing process.

Tektronix 6 Key Challenges of the Internet of Things eBook

Tektronix 6 Key Challenges of the Internet of Things eBook

This guide outlines six central challenges associated with building the devices that will populate the Internet of Things, and how those challenges can be addressed.

Tektronix Ensuring the Accuracy and Cost-Effectiveness of Temperature Measurements Systems

Tektronix Ensuring the Accuracy and Cost-Effectiveness of Temperature Measurements Systems

Temperature is one of the most frequently measured quantities in science and industry, and temperature measurements are made for a variety of reasons.

Teledyne

Teledyne Lecroy Power Products Solutions

Teledyne Lecroy Power Products Solutions

High resolution is being extensively marketed across a broad range of high bandwidth oscilloscopes. Oscilloscope manufacturers use a variety of hardware and software design approaches to increase resolution, some of which impose other performance tradeoffs.

Teledyne Lecroy True 12 Bit Oscilloscope Tech White Paper

Teledyne Lecroy True 12 Bit Oscilloscope Tech Discussion Paper

Teledyne LeCroy has a range of true 12 bit oscilloscopes which allow users to make these more detailed measurements without needing to resort to the limitations of averaging and Enhanced Resolution / High Resolution mode.

Teledyne Lecroy Analyzing Power Semiconductor Devices

Teledyne Lecroy Analyzing Power Semiconductor Devices

Teledyne LeCroy’s PWR software option enables engineers to make power device measurements quickly and easily. Color-coded overlays between states make measurements intuitive and clear. This brief provides an overview of device measurement capability and how to set up these measurements for the most accurate and consistent results.

 

Teledyne Lecroy Data Logging Using Trend Plots

Teledyne Lecroy Data Logging Using Trend Plots

Data Logging is the ability to make multiple measurements of key circuit parameters acquired simultaneously at known times. Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscopes, equipped with trend analysis have all the tools necessary for data logging up to eight parameters.

Teledyne Lecroy Decoding a SENT Protocol Signal

Teledyne Lecroy Decoding a SENT Protocol Signal

The SAE J2716 SENT (Single-Edge Nibble Transmission) protocol handles data traffic from sensors to controllers. Here’s how to use a Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope equipped with configurable SENT protocol decode software to properly decode SENT signals.

Teledyne Lecroy Differences Between ERES & HiRes

Teledyne Lecroy Differences Between ERES & HiRes

Both LeCroy’s ERES (Enhanced Resolution) math operation and the Tektronix HiRes (High Resolution) acquisition mode are FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filters. Their function is to remove high bandwidth components of the signal and high bandwidth components of acquisition noise from a waveform. Beyond that basic similarity the two operations are completely different on both a mathematical and operational level.

 

Teledyne Lecroy Digital Measurements in WaveSurfer 3000

Teledyne Lecroy Digital Measurements in WaveSurfer 3000

The WaveSurfer 3000 oscilloscopes offer a full complement of timing parameters for measurement and analysis of digital busses.

Teledyne Lecroy Digital Channel Setup in Wavesurfer 3000z Oscilloscope

Teledyne Lecroy Digital Channel Setup in Wavesurfer 3000z Oscilloscope

It’s easy to set up the 16 digital channels on the Mixed Signal High Definition Oscilloscopes to suit the user’s exact requirements.

 

Teledyne Lecroy History Mode in Wavesurfer 3000z Oscilloscopes

Teledyne Lecroy History Mode in Wavesurfer 3000z Oscilloscopes

History Mode gives the WaveSurfer 3000z oscilloscopes a powerful debug tool, providing waveform playback that takes users back in time to effectively isolate anomalies in signals.

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Audio Devices

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Audio Devices

Some engineers need to qualify audio devices for the Windows logo while others are designing theatre-quality sound devices for stage shows or for less expensive (but still good quality) automotive audio systems.

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Medical Electronics

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Medical Electronics

The world market for medical electronics is very large and growing. Devices range from very complex medical imaging systems such as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines to much simpler devices such as blood pressure monitors used for home health care.

 

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Microcontroller Development Kits

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Microcontroller Development Kits

A wide range of microcontroller development kits are available for engineers who are starting projects which will incorporate an MCU (also sometimes abreviated uC).

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Motor Controllers

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Motor Controllers

All electric motors have some type of controller. It may be a simple on/off switch. It may have the ability to ramp up the motor speed gradually during start-up. There might be controls to reverse the motor direction or thermal sensors to shut down the motor. Some motors have digital controls which use a microprocessor to monitor motor function and response to changes in load.

 

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Sensors & Actors Using Digital Oscilloscopes

Teledyne Lecroy Testing Sensors & Actors Using Digital Oscilloscopes

Sensors and actors are used in a wide variety of electronic products ranging from defense/aerospace to medical devices, robotics, biotech and other applications. This paper gives examples of viewing and testing signals using a few specific types of sensors but the techniques apply to all types sensors and actors.

Noise Measurements Using a Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscope

Noise Measurements Using a Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscope

Random noise arises from every electronic component comprising your circuits. The analysis of random electrical noise requires tools that operate in the time, frequency, and statistical domains. Your Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope has the required capabilities to characterize random noise. This application brief will demonstrate these capabilities.

Teledyne Lecroy Parameter Mathematics

Teledyne Lecroy Parameter Mathematics

Parameter math allows oscilloscope users to create custom parameters based on simple arithmetic relationships between existing parameters. This feature allows users to extend the original complement of measurement parameters based on measurement needs.

Teledyne Lecroy Three-Phase Power Measurements

Teledyne Lecroy Three-Phase Power Measurements

The two-wattmeter method for measuring power in three-phase circuits can be implemented using a four-channel oscilloscope.

Teledyne Lecroy Trends, Tracks, and Histograms

Teledyne Lecroy Trends, Tracks, and Histograms

One of the most useful features of Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscopes is the ability to process multiple measure-ments as waveforms that can be subsequently studied using all available built-in analysis tools. The three parameter-based waveform tools are called Trend, Track, and Histogram.

 

Teledyne Lecroy Using Current Probes

Teledyne Lecroy Using Current Probes

Teledyne LeCroy offers a series of AC/DC sensitive current probes with maximum continuous current ranges to 500 A and bandwidths to 100 MHz.

Teledyne Lecroy Sequence Mode in WaveSurfer 3000z Oscilloscopes

Teledyne Lecroy Sequence Mode in WaveSurfer 3000z Oscilloscopes

Using Sequence Mode, the WaveSurfer 3000z oscilloscopes from Teledyne LeCroy store thousands of trigger events as segments in acquisition memory. This fast-acquisition sampling mode offers fast trigger rates, time stamping of trigger events, and minimization of “dead time” between events.

 

Teledyne Lecroy WaveScan in WaveSurfer 3000z Oscilloscopes

Teledyne Lecroy WaveScan in WaveSurfer 3000z Oscilloscopes

The WaveScan tool built into the WaveSurfer 3000z oscilloscopes enables the instruments use more than 20 different search criteria to find anomalies in a captured waveform, or to scan live acquisitions for anywhere from a second to a day.

Teledyne Lecroy Decoding Serial Buses with WaveSurfer Oscilloscopes

Teledyne Lecroy Decoding Serial Buses with WaveSurfer Oscilloscopes

Complex embedded-control systems rely on serial buses to collect data from a multitude of sensors. WaveSurfer 3000z and WaveSurfer 4000HD oscilloscopes support serial trigger and decode for protocols commonly used in embedded systems design, helping you quickly find and fix problems on the bus.

Teledyne Lecroy Documenting Lab Results with WaveSurfer 4000HD Oscilloscopes

Teledyne Lecroy Documenting Lab Results with WaveSurfer 4000HD Oscilloscopes

Different utilities built into WaveSurfer 4000HD allow you to capture and share waveform and measurement data to document your lab results. Our signature LabNotebook is an all-in-one solution that lets you capture, annotate and share setup and waveform data, then quickly restore it to the display of other Teledyne LeCroy MAUI oscilloscopes for further analysis.

 

B&K Precision

Why Choose an All-in-One Data Acquisition Recorder? - Whitepaper

Why Choose an All-in-One Data Acquisition Recorder?

Does your organization rely on measurement data to make important decisions about product and process quality? If so, we invite you to take a look at B&K Precision’s DAS1700 and 8460 Data Acquisition Recorders. Both are portable, high speed, and configurable for your specific application. See below for more details and to download the white paper.

 

Rohde & Schwarz

Probe and Accessories - Rohde and Schwarz

Oscilloscope Probe and Accessories

From debugging complex electronic circuits to measuring the signal integrity of high-speed bus signals and characterizing power electronics—accuracy depends on probes.

 

Siglent

Probe Data Sheet

Probe Data Sheet

Need to figure out which Siglent probe you need? This is the data sheet you’re looking for: