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Features

- New - Track Multiple Temperature Zones On Your PC
A low-cost circuit permits tracking of four remote temperatures with thermistor sensors---through the parallel port on your PC. (EDN)
- New - Use Status Registers For IEEE 488.2
Instruments with an IEEE-488 (GPIB) interface can signal for service by asserting an SRQ. When a PC with a '488 interface card detects a service request, it can determine which instrument asked for service. To make programming easier, use Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI), a format for registers and commands that control them. (Test & Measurement World)
- New - Software Manages Switch Matrices
Several vendors provide IVI drivers for signal-switching components, in a variety of form-factors, including VXI. This overview tells what's available---and what's coming down the pike. (EDN)

News

- New - LogicVision's Embedded Test Integrates with Current-Test
LogicVision, a provider of embedded test intellectual property for ICs, announces that Q-Star Test, a provider of current-based (IDD) test-and-measurement, has joined the LogicVision Ready partner program. The partnership will combine LogicVision's Embedded Test Solution technology with Q-Star's test appraoch. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
- New - Partnership Shoots For Embedded Test
LogicVision also enters a partnership with Dolphin Technology, a provider of performance-optimized system-on-a-chip (SOC) memory cores, standard-cell libraries, and I/Os. Embedded test is the goal. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Corelis Joins LogicVision Program For Board, System Test
LogicVision, a provider of embedded test for ICs and systems, and Corelis, a provider of IEEE-1149.1 boundary-scan JTAG testing, jointly announce an expansion of their partnership to integrate LogicVision's diagnostic technology with Corelis's boundary scan test system. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Software Tool Networks Mobile Phone Testing Locations
Agilent Technologies and ServiceCentral Technologies Inc. debut Point-of-Service Test (PoST) Server software that enables networking of multiple distributed mobile phone test sets via the Internet or intranets. PoST permits service providers to track mobile phone return and repair data. (ChipCenter: WebScan)

Products

- New - RF Signal Generator Plug-In Simulates Cellphone Waveforms Under Windows, Linux
ChipCenter tech editor Alex Mendelsohn takes a look at Interactive Circuits and Systems Ltd.'s 4-channel 105-MHz DAC cards. These short PCI cards, capable of generating complex cellphone RF waveforms, include drivers for Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Linux. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
Agilent Extends Visual Studio .NET For Test-and-Measurement
Agilent Technologies releases its Test and Measurement Programmers Toolkit, a software suite that extends Microsoft Visual Studio .NET into test-and-measurement applications. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Fiber-Optics Tester Takes to the Field
ChipCenter Senior Technical Editor Alex Mendelsohn reviews Agilent Technologies' latest Optical Network Installation and Maintenance Platform. The modular system, featuring snap-on measurement modules, is compatible with OTDR (optical time-domain reflectometry), and includes loss-test, spectrum analysis, and dispersion measurement modules. The tester also has Universal Serial Bus and LAN connctivity as well as flash disk and PCMCIA PC Card storage. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
Antenna, Transmission-Line Testing Tool Works With Windows
ChipCenter Senior Tech Editor Alex Mendelsohn takes a look at Tektronix's new base-station field tool that checks antennas and RF transmission lines. Running Windows CE, it lets you put test results on any PC running Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT, or the latest Windows XP spin. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
3G Communications Test Manager Software Side-Steps Programming
ChipCenter Senior Technical Editor Alex Mendelsohn reviews Agilent Technologies' latest wireless test manager software. Running under Windows, it automates the testing of RF devices. When used with Agilent's Model 8960 test set, the test manager makes measurements without instrument-control and measurement programming. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
Windows 2000-Based Toolkit Automates Optical Device Tests
Instrument maker Tektronix announces software enhancements to its optical test system (OTS) to eliminate repetitive setups and redundant test runs. The Windows-2000-based script creator and interpreter aids development of test scripts, executes the instructions, and supports automated, unattended optical device testing on one, or multiple OTS systems. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
CompactPCI Analyzer Is 3U Form-Factor Plug-In
ChipCenter Senior Tech Editor Alex Mendelsohn reviews a single-board CompactPCI bus analyzer that provides more flexibility than ASIC-based designs. This PCI mezzanine card analyzer lets you simultaneously exercise and analyze a 66-MHz PMC bus with a width of either 32 or 64 bits. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
Open Switch Management Software Simplifies Large Switching Systems
National Instruments announces its NI Switch Executive, billed as the industry's first open switch management software. NI says its IVI-compatible product can let you quickly put together high-density switching systems without the hassle of programming switching routes and manually managing the system. (ChipCenter: WebScan)

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