KIPiS articles

Author(s):  Afonskaya, Svetlana
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
This article briefly describes develop-ment stages and financial performance of such companies as Agilent Technolo-gies Inc. and Keysight Technologies Inc.

Author(s):  Afonskiy, Alexander, Guskov Andrey
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
In 2013-2014 we published many articles dedicated to the measuring equipment of RIGOL Technologies, Inc., namely about new digital oscilloscope models, general-purpose signal generators and programmable power supplies with graphical interface. But the product range offered by RIGOL Technologies, Inc. is much wider than the foresaid groups and is not limited with them only. This article is about one more group of Rigol devices. Read the present article to find more about Rigol spectrum analyzers.

Author(s):  Hancock, Johnnie
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
Testing and characterizing the perfor-mance of switch mode power supplies (SMPS) and linear DC-to-DC converters requires a broad range of special power-related measurements. For years, power supply designers have been using stan-dard bench top oscilloscopes to perform these measurements manually. Today however, many oscilloscope vendors offer licensed power measurement options that can perform many of the required mea-surements automatically for you.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
The introduction of high-resolution oscilloscopes is the responds to the in-creased necessity for more in-depth signal analysis in particular in A&D, automo-tive, medical and power analysis applica-tions where it is often required to view signals with both large and small voltage details. When evaluating an oscilloscope for such applications, its vertical resolu-tion is becoming more and more a key parameter to look at, besides standard parameters like bandwidth, sample rate and memory depth. This article explains the necessary theory and introduces the applied filtering technique.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
Reserve power supply battery systems take the leading role maintaining the main functionality in the ready mode when the electricity supply is off. Data processing centers, hospitals, airports, railways, community service and many other facilities cannot do without fully reliable reserve power supply. The majority of such systems use uninterruptible power supply sources and battery sets. The current article describes advanced methods to keep such battery blocks operable and the general reserve power supply battery system ready for further work in case of power outage.

Author(s):  Afonskaya, Tatiana , Afonskiy, Alexander
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
The previous issue of our magazine keeps the article about the software advantages for modern handheld multimeters. In the present issue we decided to analyze all of the advantages of the work automation with handheld environment meters. We took air velocity measuring devices, or anemometers, as an example. More details are represented in this article.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
In October 2015 there were two major exhibitions held in parallel in Hong Kong — Hong Kong Electronics Fair and electronicAsia. The two fairs attracted a total of around 96,000 visitors from about 150 countries and regions, with buyers taking full advantage of Hong Kong’s unique competitive edge in the exhibition industry, demonstrating the fairs leading position as the largest electronics marketplace in the world.

Author(s):  Afonskaya, Tatiana
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #6
In November 2015 productronica, one of the leading electronics fairs, celebrated its 40th anniversary. The secret to its success: Together with the industry, it has been setting new standards to promote future innovations time and again since 1975. As in the past, this year's productronica gave the industry new momentum. This special show allowed visitors to experience Industry 4.0 live with the help of augmented and virtual reality on five selected electronics-manufacturing machines. For the first time ever, visitors were able to look into the machines and follow complex processes between machines and work pieces that were hidden until now. Read the article for more details.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #5
Rohde & Schwarz participated in International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS that was held on August 25-30, 2015 in Zhukovsky. During the show all of the visitors had a unique chance to attend the booth of Rohde & Schwarz and see the latest solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radio monitoring and radio location, as well as secure communications, namely: VHF/UHF radio family for ATC communications including R&S® Series 4200 Software Defined Radios; R&S® M3SR Series 4100 radio family; R&S® VCS-4G voice communications control systems; RTO1044 digital oscilloscope; SMW, SGS, SGT, SGU Vector generator family, PR100’s based Mobile Locator system, UMS300 Compact Monitoringand Radiolocation System TDOA ready and even more of that.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #5
Keysight Technologies, Inc. demonstrated a wide range of design, test and characterization solutions at European Microwave Week 2015, Palais des Congres, Booth E 110, Paris, Sept. 8-10. Keysight, a twelve-year platinum sponsor of the event, had technical experts on hand to discuss and demonstrate the latest high-performance hardware and software solutions. These were the tools that today's engineers need to gain insight into designing, testing and characterizing components for radar systems, antennas and next-generation wireless devices.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #5
Since the electric power cost is still rather high, lots of organizations try to decrease the level of power consumption. Before now most of the organizations didn’t analyze their monthly power consumption and didn’t separate it from the general municipal service payment. Until you consider the way you use the power it will be hard to find the right decision of its consumption decrease. The current article contains hands-on advice to make your work more efficient.

Author(s):  Lemeshko N., Rumyantsev K.
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #5
In the present article they consider the question of spectrum analyzers use when solving electromagnetic compatibility problem. Here you will find the analysis of the main tasks in the field of EMC and also read about the advantages of handheld spectrum analyzers comparing to the nonportable laboratory devices. In this article R&S FSH series spectrum analyzers are compared to the initial and average level devices which may help you to see the way they can replace each other when solving the described tasks.

Author(s):  Curran, Jim
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #5
At the beginning of every new product program, tremendous amounts of time, attention and money go into defining and integrating the required test system. Once a test system is up and running, the responsible organization needs confidence that it will keep going. That’s why Keysight is offering Instrument Lifecycle Solutions, including Extended Service Period solutions.

Author(s):  Afonskiy, Alexander
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #5
Time and again the topic of our magazine was the development of high-end multimeters. Recently there has been absolutely new software designed for handheld multimeters named Aktakom Digital Multimeter Monitor. This software allows user to enter the necessary data and display the current values and the measurement history as a table or a graph with max., min. and average values, with further opportunity to process and save the data received from AKTAKOM multimeters. Read the present article to see which AKTAKOM models this software is capable of operating with, what software versions it has and what features and capabilities this software is ready to offer.

Author(s):  Bogdanoff, Daniel
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #4
Logic analyzers offer two main meth-ods for capturing data, state mode and timing mode. Timing mode (sometimes known as «asynchronous mode») is the sampling methodology shared by both oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #4
Hardware and software package from National Instruments allow the embedded systems developers to create systems very fast and with low expenses. The present article contains an example of the automation of electrically driven pumps test block which was based on the reconfigurable NI RIO platform. For more information read this article.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #4
If you need an insulation resistance tester but do not know which characteristics, what output testing voltage and other functions it should have you need to consider 6 main aspects. First of all it’s necessary to carefully explore the equipment under test, check the output voltage requirements, check the test terms, see other possible application types, make sure the level of the user’s qualification and skills is high enough as well as to explore the safety precautions for this insulation resistance tester. The present article contains the tips which will help you to make the right choice.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #4
On May 26-27 Keysight Technologies jointly with Cascade Microtech è Maury Microwave held a two day seminar dedicated to the wide range of solutions to test material parameters as well as semiconductor devices. Keysight is one of the leaders in this sphere and the only company ready to introduce such a wide range of products and solutions for this area. Together with Cascade Microtech è Maury Microwave Keysight demonstrated measuring devices and softwares capable of joint operation and making all-in-one systems. Find more details in this review.

Author(s):  Afonskaya, Tatiana , Afonskiy, Alexander
Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #4
his year AKTAKOM™ celebrates its 15th anniversary! AKTAKOM was regis-tered in 2000 and nowadays this is one of the most popular trademarks in the sphere of test and measuring instruments, soldering equipment, industrial furniture and software. For this long period of time AKTAKOM™ has become in a very de-mand among various industrial organi-zations as well as educational institu-tions. This name is widely known abroad and starting from 2013 it is an official trademark in the USA. AKTAKOM wide product range is produced with the use of the most innovative technologies that can guarantee the high quality to its users. Read about the history of AKTAKOM in the present article.

Issue:  KIPiS 2015 #3