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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines 'automobile' as 'a usually four-wheeled automotive vehicle designed for passenger transportation.' At some point over the past couple of decades, it became odd to use 'automobile' [...]

Just as landline phones became accompanied by cordless and eventually pocket-sized versions, and large desktop computers were accompanied by laptops and then tablets, electronic test instrumentation has also seen a [...]

Welcome to Evaluation Engineering's 2019 Job Report. Up until this year, we branded this report as the results of our annual 'Salary Survey'. But when revisiting all that our survey [...]

As manufacturers of all types of mechanical equipment work toward using energy efficiently, regenerative power technology has taken a major role in reducing operating costs. Power regeneration is the process [...]

> From Aug. 26-29, the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, MD will welcome IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2019, bringing together the military/aerospace automatic test industry, government/ military acquirers and users [...]

> As one of the most important instruments for electrical test in a lab or in the field, signal and spectrum analyzers serve multiple purposes across a range of applications, [...]

As the complexity of newer electronics devices increases, so do the demands on providers of semiconductor test. Vendors of test solutions are tasked with not hampering the productivity of designers [...]

Consisting of sensors, data acquisition measurement hardware, and a computer with programmable software, data acquisition systems have taken on immense importance over the years amid the rise of the Industrial [...]

As the basis for telecommunications services, radio frequency (RF) energy enabled near-instant transmission and reception of electronic signals from one source to another--across distances that span millimeters to thousands of [...]

With each passing year, modular instruments gain ever-more capabilities that were once only possible with benchtop instruments. Assembling a complete test system once required a rack-mount enclosure and multiple other [...]

Much like cars, home appliances, and consumer gadgets, the market for oscilloscopes has traditionally been divided into mainstream instruments and those considered high-end. There's no industry-standard definition of either, but [...]

Manufacturers in the power semiconductor industry have been tackling challenges of performance, reliability, and lowering the cost of high-power devices for decades. More recently, boosting energy efficiency has taken on [...]

* Ever since manufacturers of electronic equipment, devices, and instruments mastered the production of safe and reliable products, they've been constantly pushing for increased efficiency. The demand for energy-efficient programmable [...]

* The 24th annual DesignCon was held Jan. 29-31 in Santa Clara, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. The yearly event brings together nearly 5,000 professionals from the high-speed [...]

* As various applications see demands rise for power usage, power density, and efficiency, the need to test for electrical safety goes hand-in-hand. Software continues to play a growing role [...]

With the rise of smart cities, intelligent factories and the Internet of Things, manufacturers of switching systems are under increasing pressure to adapt their instruments for applications based around connectivity. [...]

The vector network analyzer (VNA) remains one of the most basic, yet pivotal, tools to test component specifications and verify design simulations in order to ensure that systems and their [...]

While high-speed digital design engineers continuously combat demands for products and systems that are lower power, lower cost, more reliable, user-friendly, mobile, and faster than ever, test engineers are challenged [...]

The oscilloscope has been test & measurement engineers' bread-and-butter instrument for decades, with its roots dating back to the turn of the 20th century, and commercial versions available coming out [...]

The topic of 5G has been huge among our Evaluation Engineering audience for several years now. It's a key subject at any electronics expo. On Oct. 25, President Donald Trump [...]

Some of the biggest challenges facing providers of semiconductor test products have remained for decades: cost to test, improving the quality of the test program, and not impeding the productivity [...]

The field of RF/Microwave testing has been in a constant state of flux as new technologies have required increasingly advanced testing methodologies over the years. That fact has been put [...]

While 5G will undoubtedly do wonders for the massive amount of anticipated electronic devices in the next few years, the transmission speeds of its radio frequency-based wireless mobile technologies are [...]

The fields of electromagnetic interference (EMI) test and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test go hand-in-hand, providing measurements, debugging, pre-compliance, and full compliance testing for a wide variety of electronics. EMI/EMC testing [...]

During March 17-21, the Anaheim Convention Center hosted the 34th annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, or better known as APEC 2019. Considered the premier event in applied [...]

The concept-to-market cycle of a product in the electronics space is often quite lengthy. Even with the rapid rate of innovation and technological advancements we've seen over the past decade, [...]

Of all the applications for electronic test & measurement, none have anything close to the direct impact on the health and well-being of consumers as in medical test. The stakes [...]

As electronic testing technologies become more and more complex, achieving goals requires continuous redesign within solutions--incorporating better microchips, OEM equipment, individual devices, and other internal improvements. This is prompting vendors [...]

As long as humans keep advancing technology to make our lives and job functions easier, sadly, there will always be those who mean to do harm with it. That's been [...]

Advertising from today's cellular service providers would understandably make the common layperson assume communication technology is now in the age of 5G--that it's here and being rolled out to the [...]

As any regular reader of Evaluation Engineerings monthly print or digital issue knows, we feature two 'Special Reports' in every issue on a specific topic relevant to electronic test & [...]

When you turn to page 16 of this September print issue of Evaluation Engineering, you'll find our 2019 Job Report, which, based on its title, may appear to be a [...]

As I read and reviewed the then-freshly written special report on Mil/Aero test featured on pages 6-11 of this August issue of Evaluation Engineering, one particular theme struck a chord [...]

In the April print issue of Evaluation Engineering, my editorial column focused on the topic of 'brain drain' in electronic test engineering--as in, the challenge vendors and institutions are facing [...]

I know, I know, it's another 5G editorial. Yes, we at Evaluation Engineering have covered developments in 5G extensively, given that the fifth generation of wireless connectivity is rightfully all [...]

On April 3, Verizon announced that it has turned on its 5G wireless networks in Chicago and Minneapolis--the first two cities to receive the network that will work with the [...]

Before joining Evaluation Engineering, I was the editor of two industrial manufacturing trade publications, and one of the most pressing topics among the audience of both was regarding a pending [...]

In December, Denmark-based Universal Robots celebrated the 10-year anniversary of delivering the first commerciallyviable collaborative robot. That such 'cobot' was put in place by Lanatex, a Danish supplier of plastics [...]

On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight Rover touched down on Mars, ending a seven-month journey that took the craft 301,223,981 miles from Earth.I livestreamed NASAs YouTube broadcast from its Jet Propulsion [...]

For at least a year before this editorial, I had been meaning to finally sit down and count up the number of connected devices in my home. The manufacturing trade [...]

On a late afternoon in late September, I took my car to the dealership for a routine oil change. When checking in, a maintenance representative tells me the service center's [...]

In this article the author talks about the Evaluation Engineering provides a snapshot of the responsibilities of leaders have, about determining their job satisfaction, and overall thoughts on their compensation. It mentions that the results of all questions with all respondents, the vast majority of this year's survey results will compare engineers only against other engineers, managers only against other managers, and so on.

The article offers the reviews of regenerative power supplies & loads products including 61800 regenerative grid simulators for micro-grid, PV inverter, PCS/ESS, UPS, EVSE, and DC quick charger test applications from Chroma; and RP7953A regenerative power system from Keysight.

A market research report for the 5G telecommunication sector in U.S. is presented from publisher Endeavor Business Media, with topics including challenges faced by the sector, the focus of electronic test and measurement vendors and product launches.

The article evaluates the signal generators from manufacturers including Rohde & Schwarz, SIGLENT Technologies and Rigol.

In this article the author talks about optical communications technology will remain a crucial counterpart to wireless RF, as considerable advancements in optical system capacity, network reach, and user base size make it an attractive commercial solution. It mentions that the Optical wireless communication systems are attractive as a broadband access technology due to their high speeds, and the cost-effectiveness of meeting bandwidth requirements of different services.

The article offers information on the state-of-the-art equipment at GE plant and mentions its two GE Aviation Plants in Western North Carolina which include Asheville and West Jefferson industrial plants. It states the history of the Hendersonville factory in which an outdated production operations and a major drop in sales had the plant facing closure. The traditional batch-oriented manufacturing process at the Hendersonville plant is cited.

The article offers information on the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) project of Thailand, Board of Investment. Topics discussed include improve physical infrastructure with electric train system, dual-track rail system, and natural gas infrastructure; investments to create transport and logistics systems linking roads, rails, sea routes; and improving embracement of digital technology.