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Application Note This application note discusses different techniques for utilizing digital multimeters to measure AC voltage and obtain consistent root mean square value measurements. "Make Better RMS Measurements with Your DMM" addresses how engineers can deliver reliable results through testing. To download a free copy, go to www.agilent.com/find/dmm_insight. Agilent...

General Purpose Test Instruments Catalog This 64-page catalog contains detailed information on more than 330 of the company's newest test and measurement products, accessories and support services that can help R&D and manufacturing test engineers make their measurements faster and more accurately, reducing products' time to market. To obtain...

Workshops & Courses CCD/CMOS Imaging Sensors and Application Topics : Describes advances made in pixel count, quantum efficiency, charge transfer efficiency, read noise, large dynamic range and high speed operation. CCD and CMOS technologies developed to achieve high levels of performance are discussed. Site : Los Angeles, CA Dates...

News From Washington Harris Corp.'s Weather and Radar Processor System in Use by Controllers Air traffic controllers at the nation's 21 FAA air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs) now can view real-time, graphical weather data at their stations, using the weather and radar processor (WARP) system. WARP, developed for...

International Report Turnkey Network Opens the Door for Alcatel in Nigeria In order to unlock the vast potential of the African market, Globacom, the second national carrier of Nigeria, has awarded Alcatel a major global frame contract, with an initial order of 675 M, for the supply of a...

The Commercial Market IEEE 802.20 Will Set Data Rates Above 1 Mbps for Mobile Users Mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA) for computers, personal digital assistants and other battery-powered devices is to take a major step forward. The next two years will see a standard developed at the IEEE to...

Software Radio, A Modern Approach to Radio Engineering Jeffrey H. Reed Prentice Hall PTR 565 pages; $92 ISBN: 0-13-081158-0 Software radios represent a major change in the design approach for radios in which a large portion of the functionality is implemented through programmable signal processing devices, giving the radio...

Upcoming generations of cellular radio systems such as GSM EDGE or UMTS require increasing power levels to meet linearity requirements of transmitted signals. To reduce overall costs, equipment manufacturers aim at reducing the number of transistors in their RF power amplifiers. The consequence is a constant demand for bigger...

The CMC-SOIC8 ceramic SOIC8 surface-mount package is ideal for packaging RF/microwave MMIC and discrete devices for applications from DC to 18 GHz. This new addition to CMC's standard product line is fabricated using aluminum nitride (AlN), a ceramic material with thermal conductivity of 180 W/m-K, about 10 times higher...

A comb generator is a device with outputs that are multiple harmonics of an input signal. The output spectral tone lines are uniformly spaced at integer multiples of the input reference. A spectrum analyzer display of the output looks much like the teeth of a comb, which is how...