When working with hardware, whether a repair or a fresh build, it’s often necessary to test something. Depending on what you’re working with, this can be easy or a total pain if you can’t get the ...

Read more Test Ideas and Design Ideas here. As ICs increase in complexity and decrease in size, their pin counts drop or, at best, remain constant. The result: a need for pin-saving measures like ...

Lilliputian dimensions associated with the submicron geometries of most digital and many analog processes result in much faster circuit operation. As ICs speed up, the rise and fall times of most ...

A former coworker friend sent me a Tektronix 3-slot mainframe and several plug-in modules (Fig. 1). The TM500-series mainframes are 1970s vintage, but like a lot of old test equipment, can still work ...

P500 is a benchtop digital delay and pulse generator that generates four separately programmable delay-and-width outputs. It can generate delays up to 1,000 seconds in 1ps increments, and is capable ...