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Tektronix wins ACE award for test and measurement with its Keithley DMM7510
Tektronix recently announced that its Keithley DMM7510 Graphical Sampling Multimeter was named a winner in the 2016 UBM Americas ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards in the Test and Measurement category. The awards program recognises the people and companies behind the technologies
and products that are changing the world of electronics. “The DMM7510 is the
industry’s first graphical sampling multimeter and winning this prestigious award is another indication of the impact this breakthrough instrument is having on the industry today,” said Mike Flaherty, General Manager, Keithley product line at Tektronix. “The DMM7510’s combination of high performance and high ease of use gives our customers’ unparallelled insight into test results.” The DMM7510 7½-Digit Graphical Sampling Multimeter is the first of a new class of digital multimeters. It integrates a high accuracy
Passing the test: Keithley’s DMM7510 multimeter from Tektronix was a winner in the ACE Awards.
measurement insights. “We’re excited to honour this robust group for their dedication to their craft and e orts in bettering the industry for years to come,” said Nina Brown, VP Events, UBM Americas. “The judging panel was given the di cult task of selecting winners from an incredibly talented group of finalists and we’d like to thank all of those participants and also honour their achievements.”
both ultra-low sleep modes and capture complex load current bursts enabling design and test engineers to fully characterise and test the power consumed in all of a device’s operating states. The DMM7510’s user interface continues Keithley’s touch-test-invent design philosophy that lets users learn faster, work smarter and invent easier. Exploring waveforms with pinch and zoom, for instance, helps users quickly uncover deep GaN Doherty design can reduce the complexity and energy consumption of the radio, further reducing the base station total cost of ownership. Mitsubishi Electric’s full line-up of GaN devices, with frequencies in L-, S-, C-, and Ku-bands at output powers ranging from 2W to 100W, supports a wide variety of end-communications applications, including cellular base station, satellite, ground station and point-to-point. Mitsubishi Electric’s Semiconductor Division o ers a wide range of semiconductor and electronic devices designed to advance information processing
digital multimeter, a digitiser for waveform capture, and a capacitive touchscreen user interface. The DMM7510 o ers 1pA sensitivity, fast 1MHz sampling and can store over 27 million readings. With this performance, the DMM7510 is suited for applications such as profiling the power consumption of battery-operated products in IoT devices, implantable medical devices and fitness
monitoring devices. The DMM7510 can measure
Mitsubishi ES launches Doherty amplifier for next- gen LTE base stations
and telecommunications. The division o ers next-generation optical devices that support the rapidly evolving optical telecommunications networks. These include high-frequency gallium nitride, gallium arsenide and silicon RF devices used in a variety of applications from two-way radios to telecommunications satellites. The company also presented a technical paper which proposed a frequency dependency- compensating circuit and a modified quarter wavelength inverter
power, with e ciencies above 45.9% across the full 3.0-3.6GHz band (20MHz LTE signal). The approach gives customers the ability to design more competitive LTE amplifiers capable of carrier aggregation scenarios in this band. In conjunction with digital pre-distortion to maintain -50dBc ACLR, the use of the wide-band e cient
Mitsubishi Electric recently presented a hands-on mini lab showcasing its high- e ciency, wide-band Doherty amplifier, at Radio & Wireless Week. With improved bandwidth and e ciency, compared to earlier design methodologies, the compact design of the Doherty amplifier delivers more than 2.5W of average
incorporating the transistor package parasitic elements.
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