Electronics/Test Spotlight

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Instrumentation Moves from the Lab to the Factory Floor

Portable. Battery-powered. Wireless. While these terms usually describe the latest consumer products, they are the enablers for taking laboratory-grade instrumentation into the factory.  more >>

Power Management Relies on Packaging

With applications from personal computers to portable consumer products to automobiles driving packaging innovation, power management companies have tackled packaging issues head-on with highly innovative approaches.  more >>

Engineers Search for Electrical Storage Solution

Engineers from EPRI, MIT, Argonne National Labs and elsewhere are looking at batteries as a way of storing power from renewable sources.  more >>

Positive Train Control Ran Successfully in Years-Long Burlington Northern Railroad Trial

In the 1980s, Burlington Northern Railroad executives pioneered the development of Advanced Railroad Electronics System (ARES), a Positive Train Control system promising to thrust the railroad into the digital age.  more >>

L.A. Train Crash Prompts Quick Passage of PTC Bills

The flurry of Congressional activity on positive train control reflects the potential of PTC reducing or eliminating serious railroad accidents.  more >>

Electronics/Test Webcasts

Designing Intelligent Power Supplies

This Webcast covers the challenges and benefits of including a microcontroller in a Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) design. It starts with an examination of the 4 areas in which a microcontroller adds functionality to a SMPS design and some of the market forces driving their addition to products.

Integrating Measurements and Simulations throughout the Circuit Design Process

Shrinking product development cycles and increasing circuit complexity are requiring engineers to rethink how they design their electronic circuits. To meet these challenges, design engineers have turned to using measurements and simulations throughout the design process.