Design & Manufacturing News

Agilent intros precision waveform analyzer module

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has introduced a precision waveform analyzer for engineers involved in design verification and validation of high-speed electrical communications systems and...

Anritsu unveils multi-channel BERT with up to 32 Gbps on four channels

Anritsu Co. has introduced 28G/32G multi-channel modules for its MP1800A Signal Quality Analyzer (SQA) BERT system. The new capabilities will aid equipment designers evaluate interconnect...

Xilinx orders Centellax 32G stressed serial BERT for device characterization

FPGA developer Xilinx has ordered several Centellax SSB32J Stressed Serial BERT test and measurement instruments for device characterization, Centellax reveals. David Ferguson, principal...

Yenista Optics releases ultra-narrow tunable filter

In the development of next-generation 100-Gbps transmission systems, the need has emerged for extremely narrow tunable filters used in the investigation of new modulation formats and their...

LeCroy increases real-time oscilloscope bandwidth to 60 GHz

LeCroy Corp. announced last week that, thanks to the development of a new chipset that supports bandwidth of 36 GHz and a rate of 80 GS/s, its LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscopes can now provide 60 GHz...

Southern Photonics launches optical modulation analyzer based on equivalent-time oscilloscopes

Southern Photonics of New Zealand now offers a new alternative to current optical modulation analysis techniques. The company says its IQScope, when paired with equivalent-time sampling...

Agilent offers fiber-optic switches for optical manufacturing tests

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) says its new N77 Series optical switches improve the cost-effectiveness of optical transceiver manufacturing tests as well as the efficiency of optical component...

EXFO expands multirate Ethernet, OTN test capabilities to 100 Gbps

EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ:EXFO) (TSX:EXF) has announced new multirate fiber-optic test capabilities for Ethernet and Optical Transport Network (OTN) applications up to 100 Gbps. The advancements improve...

Tektronix unveils optimized optical modulation analyzer, oscilloscope pairing

[UPDATED] Tektronix, Inc. has announced the first new product derived from its acquisition of optical modulation analyzer vendor Optametra (see "Tektronix buys Optametra for optical modulation...

EXFO details measurement of 528-Gbps signals using 66-GBd PM 16-QAM

In a post-deadline paper delivered at last month’s ECOC conference in Geneva, researchers at EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) and Chalmers University in Goteborg, Sweden described the use...