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Measurement of Very Small Currents with an Oscilloscope

Measurement of Very Small Currents with an Oscilloscope

Measuring small currents has become increasingly important for battery powered portable and wearable consumer devices, IoT and medical applications.


eMMC Interfaces Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

eMMC Interfaces Compliance Test with an Oscilloscope

Embedded multi-media cards (eMMC) are widely used in the industry as the primary memory for portable devices.


Testing Conducted Emission in the R&D Lab with an Oscilloscope

Testing Conducted Emission in the R&D Lab with an Oscilloscope

Conducted emissions are electromagnetic disturbances caused by a device and conducted out by interconnects such as the power supply lines.


EMI Debugging with an Oscilloscope

EMI Debugging with an Oscilloscope

Meeting EMI and EMC requirements is critical to bringing electronic products to market. Compliance testing requires expensive equipment and test time at a compliance laboratory.


Power Integrity Test with an Oscilloscope

Power Integrity Test with an Oscilloscope

Today’s highly integrated electronic devices use smaller voltage levels and, as a result, require much smaller ripple levels on the power rails for reliable operation.


DIY Tools—Build Your Own Logic Probe

DIY Tools—Build Your Own Logic Probe

Having a logic probe handy is always a must for an electronics workshop. But instead of buying one, why not build your own for a fraction of the cost and have it working in an hour?


Projects Sep 22, 2016 by Robin Mitchell
How to Read the I2C Bus on an Oscilloscope

How to Read the I2C Bus on an Oscilloscope

Part 2 of Mastering the Oscilloscope will introduce decoding for I²C circuits.


SpaceWire Triggering & Decoding with an Oscilloscope

SpaceWire Triggering & Decoding with an Oscilloscope

SpaceWire is a new serial bus standard for aircraft and areospace applications that supports bit rate up to 400 Mbps. The R&S option K65, SpaceWire trigger & decode, for RTE and RTO offers triggering and decoding of SpaceWire protocol communication.


Basic Waveform Analysis with an Oscilloscope

Basic Waveform Analysis with an Oscilloscope

In this first part of a multi-part series, we will use a Tek MDO Mixed Domain Oscilloscope to illustrate options to measure various circuit elements.


Inspecting Electronic Circuits with an Audible Circuit Probe

Inspecting Electronic Circuits with an Audible Circuit Probe

When inspecting electronic circuits, most measurements are displayed visually. This tool provides audible feedback to augment your analyses.


C-BISCUIT Power: Assembly and Testing of Regulator and Crowbar Circuits

C-BISCUIT Power: Assembly and Testing of Regulator and Crowbar Circuits

Continuing the C-BISCUIT series, this article outlines how to populate and test the surface mount PCBs designed in a previous article using a hot air rework station and other various electronics tools.


Projects May 31, 2016 by Patrick Lloyd
Make a Workshop on a Budget for Under £100

Make a Workshop on a Budget for Under £100

Making a workshop for electronics projects is cheaper than you might think.


News May 29, 2016 by Robin Mitchell
Build an Automatic Computer Display Rotator With an Arduino

Build an Automatic Computer Display Rotator With an Arduino

Learn how to build a device which senses when your computer monitor is physically rotated, and automatically tells your computer to rotate the display accordingly.


Projects Apr 12, 2016 by Matthew Davis
Engineer Spotlight: Alexander Lee and the World’s First Wireless Oscilloscope

Engineer Spotlight: Alexander Lee and the World’s First Wireless Oscilloscope

We got to interview Alexander Lee from Aeroscope Labs about his experience developing the Aeroscope, the world's first wireless oscilloscope.


News Apr 07, 2016 by Tim Youngblood
Building Raspberry Pi Controllers Part 5: Reading Analog Data with an RPi

Building Raspberry Pi Controllers Part 5: Reading Analog Data with an RPi

Learn how to read electrical signals and data from an analog device using the Step Response technique in Part 5 of the Building Raspberry Pi Controllers series.


Projects Feb 09, 2016 by Don Wilcher
NI’s 5-in-1 VirtualBench Ups Speed and Power Ante

NI’s 5-in-1 VirtualBench Ups Speed and Power Ante

The five-in-one National Instruments release is a dream platform.


News Jan 27, 2016 by PatrickM
An Intro to Labview and Graphical Programming Languages

An Intro to Labview and Graphical Programming Languages

LabVIEW is a graphical language targeted for equipment monitoring and control. Not using statements, it is programmed using graphic controls. Here's a great intro to this fantastic language.


Hack Your Toaster Oven to Become a Thermocouple Measurement System

Hack Your Toaster Oven to Become a Thermocouple Measurement System

The intuitive, step-by-step procedure presented in this article will help you to successfully perform reflow soldering in your toaster oven.


Projects Dec 18, 2015 by Robert Keim
Design a Luxmeter Using a Light Dependent Resistor

Design a Luxmeter Using a Light Dependent Resistor

Take a few minutes to characterize a light dependent resistor (LDR) and you can build a simple and reasonably accurate light meter can be built using an LDR and an Arduino.


Projects Dec 13, 2015 by David Williams
What We Want For Christmas

What We Want For Christmas

We polled a bunch of designers and engineers to see what they were asking for this Christmas. Here's the list!


News Dec 12, 2015 by Jennifer A. Diffley