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MIPI D-PHY v1.2 Conformance Testing: What Does It Actually Take to Run a Full CTS Demo on the MSO8000HD?

Three oscilloscope parameters — 8 GHz, 12-bit ADC, ≤150 fs intrinsic jitter — are not arbitrary specs for MIPI D-PHY v1.2 conformance testing. Each maps directly to a specific CTS...

Europe Is Weak in AI Narrative. But at Embedded World, I Saw Something Different.

"FPGA & SoC. Made in Germany." No AI slogans. No hype. Just modules. At Embedded World, the Trenz Electronic booth was easy to walk past. But it was showing exactly...

Using a Function Generator as a Delay Generator: Solving the Fixed 250 ns Trigger Offset Problem

Fixed 250 ns trigger delay. Can't adjust it. Customer needs 10–100 ns range. Sound familiar? Here's why external trigger routing gives you a floor you can't go below — and...

Mini-Circuits + VDI + Erickson PM5B at EuMW 2025: The 115 GHz Demo Nobody Stopped For — and Why It Mattered Most

The display read 15.306. No robotic arm. No giant screen. Just a Mini-Circuits synthesizer at 9583.333333 MHz × 12 = 115 GHz, a VDI multiplier, and an Erickson PM5B with...

Virginia Diodes Compact W-Band VNA Extender + MilliBox at EuMW 2025: When Geometry Becomes Part of the Measurement

A compact Keysight P5006B VNA. Two VDI WR10+ extenders covering 67–115 GHz. A MilliBox GIM04 300E multi-axis robotic arm sweeping a W-band module through angular positions. At EuMW 2025, this...

Virginia Diodes 300 GHz Dual Polarization OTA Link at EuMW 2025: 63 Gbps Over the Air — and What the Demo Doesn't Show You

285 GHz. 12.5 GHz bandwidth. Dual polarization H+V. 63 Gbps. Live OFDM error summary on a Keysight UXR real-time oscilloscope. The Virginia Diodes demo at EuMW 2025 was the most...

Rohde & Schwarz Wideband Modulated Load Pull: The Test That Deliberately Breaks Your Amplifier

Load pull testing deliberately varies impedance away from the ideal operating point — until the amplifier's behavior is fully mapped. At the microwave show, R&S showed why wideband modulated load...

Rohde & Schwarz ZNA at 67 GHz: When 16 Traces Tell You Everything — Except What You Need to Know

Sixteen traces. Four Smith charts. Full S-parameter matrix from 10 MHz to 67 GHz. The R&S ZNA screen at the microwave show looked like everything you'd need. Here's what it...

MACOM and NI at the Microwave Show: From 250W GaN to 140 GHz SDR — What a "Complete System" Actually Looks Like

Two booths, 40 meters apart. MACOM with 250W GaN and 60 dBm limiters. NI with a live 140 GHz SDR link across 40 cm of free space. Neither was showing...

Keysight Sub-THz Device Analysis at 307 GHz: How University of Stuttgart Is Building 6G IC Test Infrastructure

Center frequency: 307 GHz. Modulation bandwidth: 40 GHz. Residual EVM target: less than 1%. At the microwave show in the Netherlands, Keysight's Sub-THz Device Analysis bench — built with VDI...

Keysight UXA + VDI WR 6.5 at 140 GHz: What a 16-QAM Constellation Actually Tells You

The center frequency read 140.171752297 GHz. 16-QAM. 500 MHz symbol rate. 2 Gbps raw data rate. At the microwave show in the Netherlands, Keysight's UXA and a VDI WR 6.5...

Aaronia AG at a Microwave Show: 3 THz/s Sweep Speed — World Record via USB, and What That Actually Means

"World Record Sweep Speed via USB." That's what the red banner said on Aaronia's curved multi-panel display. 3 THz/s. 490 MHz RTBW. 40 FPS. Here's what those numbers mean in...

Keysight FieldFox at a Microwave Show: From 14 GHz Pulse Sequences to 94 GHz mmWave — What "Field Test" Actually Means

Two FieldFox analyzers, one table. One running 14 GHz pulse sequences for radar timing. The other capturing 94 GHz spectrum with a VDI mmWave extender and gold horn antenna. A...

Power Integrity at PCIM: What OMICRON Lab and Picotest Were Really Asking

"Is your test bench complete?" That was the question on the wall at the OMICRON Lab and Picotest booth at PCIM. Four live demos — loop gain, output impedance, PSRR,...

Tektronix vs. Keysight at PCIM: Two Ways to Look Inside a SiC MOSFET

Two booths at PCIM. Two oscilloscope giants. Both measuring SiC MOSFETs — but asking entirely different questions. This is what the Tektronix/Keithley vs. Keysight split reveals about where SiC technology...

Wolfspeed Gen 4 SiC MOSFET at PCIM: 30–50% Less Turn-On Loss — But What Are You Actually Measuring?

Gen 4 delivers 30–50% lower turn-on switching losses. That's the claim. At PCIM, Wolfspeed backed it with a live oscilloscope comparison — three devices, same loop, same conditions. Here's what...

SiC MOSFET Power Characterization at PCIM: Why Static and Dynamic Are Two Different Worlds

Two stations. Two measurement worlds. Tektronix and Keithley showed at PCIM why static DC characterization and dynamic switching power testing are not the same thing — and why SiC MOSFET...

Double Pulse Testing, Three Ways: From Manual Bench to Automated Production Cell at PCIM

The double pulse test is the same. The infrastructure around it has split into three distinct product categories: precision bench characterization (R&S MXO5), automated production testing (iPE cell), and development...

No Bulk Capacitor, No Problem: Inside TI's Single-Stage Micro Inverter Demo at PCIM

A single-stage AC/DC micro inverter eliminates the intermediate 400V bus capacitors that limit the service life of conventional two-stage designs. The TI TIDM-01035ME2 at PCIM showed what that looks like...

Two Oscilloscopes, One Wolfspeed Board: How Keysight Tackles the High-Side Measurement Problem at PCIM

One Wolfspeed SiC evaluation board. Two Keysight oscilloscopes — 1 GHz 14-bit on the left, 6 GHz 16-bit on the right. Same DUT, different measurement questions, different instrument tiers. The...

The World's Only Fibre Optic Isolated Oscilloscope: Why Cleverscope CS548 Exists and What It Solves

How do you measure the high-side gate voltage in a GaN inverter when the switching node swings at 100 V/ns? The Cleverscope CS548 uses fibre optic isolation — 2kV between...

Adaptive Gate Current Shaping: How Bosch EG120 Solves the Parallel SiC-MOSFET Balancing Problem

Two SiC MOSFETs in parallel will never have exactly the same threshold voltage. That nanosecond difference creates transient current imbalance that degrades reliability over a vehicle's lifetime. The Bosch EG120...

Measuring the Invisible: Isotropic EMF Measurement Up to 8 GHz and What WiFi 6E Changed

WiFi 6E opened the 6 GHz band. Most existing isotropic EMF measurement systems stopped just below it. The R&S TS-EMF with the new TSEMF-B2E antenna extends coverage to 8 GHz...

LISN + EMI Receiver + a Light Bulb: The Conducted Emissions Test That Every Product Needs

Three things: a LISN, a light bulb, and an EMI receiver measuring from 9 kHz to 30 MHz. This is the conducted emissions test that every electrical product sold in...

EMC & REGULATORY TESTING OF DUT WITH RADIO FUNCTIONALITY

An AVM FRITZ!Box WiFi router as the device under test. An instrument rack worth six figures keeping its radio link alive while the EMC measurement runs. The R&S TS8996 solves...

Testing Automotive Radar in an EMC Storm: What Happens When 77 GHz Meets Interference

A speedometer showing radar-detected velocity — in real time, under active EMC interference. The R&S automotive radar testing demo at Cologne closed the gap between functional radar validation and EMC...

Compliance Testing Up to 44 GHz — And a Robot to Run It

A yellow robot arm positioning antennas in a miniature semi-anechoic chamber. Two ESW EMI receivers running in parallel to 44 GHz. 510 MHz FFT bandwidth for gapless CISPR band coverage....

Differential Mode vs Common Mode: Why Splitting EMI at the Source Changes Everything

Differential mode and common mode EMI require different filters, different measurements, and different debug strategies. The R&S RTO G + ZES Zimmer LMG671 joint booth at Cologne showed what it...

The Microwave Oven on the Test Bench: What 225 MHz Real-Time Bandwidth Is Actually For

A microwave oven generates multi-decade, multi-mechanism EMI — from TRIAC switching harmonics at 150 kHz through magnetron broadband emission at 2.45 GHz and beyond. The TDEMI G Series at 225...

Synchronized, Automated, Multi-Band: The Keysight Approach to EMC and Wireless Coexistence Testing

869 MHz and 2.4 GHz monitored simultaneously, time-synchronized, with 100% probability of intercept and automated test sequencing. The Keysight multi-instrument coexistence demo at Cologne explained what it takes to validate...

DC to 40 GHz in Real Time: What the TDEMI ULTRA Is Actually Claiming

A table lamp as the device under test. A spectrum from DC to 40 GHz captured in real time. The Gauss Instruments TDEMI ULTRA Series isn't modest about what it...

1000 MHz Real-Time: When EMI Measurement Becomes a 3D Map of Electromagnetic Space

A 3D spectrogram shaped like a blue tornado: frequency vs rotation angle vs amplitude, captured simultaneously across 1000 MHz in a single turntable pass. The Gauss Instruments TDEMI Ultimate redefines...

510 MHz Real-Time: How IQ Capture Changes the Logic of EMI Measurement

Traditional EMI testing produces a result. Real-time IQ capture produces a dataset. The Gauss Instruments TDEMI S — 510 MHz capture bandwidth, density display, full replay — explains what that...

Bode Plot as a Design Tool: How Filter Characterization Predicts EMC Compliance

One curve, three frequency regions, one answer: does your EMI filter work — and where does it stop working? A breakdown of the Omicron Lab Bode 500 demo from a...

When an Oscilloscope Becomes a Motor Drive Analyzer: The Case for Application-Specific Measurement

The MDA 8208HD doesn't call itself an oscilloscope. It's a Motor Drive Analyzer — and that distinction defines everything: 8 channels for three-phase systems, automated harmonic analysis, and correlated time-frequency...

One Signal, Four Perspectives: What a 12-Bit Oscilloscope Actually Shows You

The same signal, four analytical perspectives at once. The Teledyne LeCroy WavePro 804HD-MS 12-bit demo in Turin showed what it means to move from waveform observation to behavioral characterization.

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MIPI D-PHY v1.2 Conformance Testing: What Does It Actually Take to Run a Full CTS Demo on the MSO8000HD?

Europe Is Weak in AI Narrative. But at Embedded World, I Saw Something Different.

Using a Function Generator as a Delay Generator: Solving the Fixed 250 ns Trigger Offset Problem

Mini-Circuits + VDI + Erickson PM5B at EuMW 2025: The 115 GHz Demo Nobody Stopped For — and Why It Mattered Most

Virginia Diodes Compact W-Band VNA Extender + MilliBox at EuMW 2025: When Geometry Becomes Part of the Measurement

Virginia Diodes 300 GHz Dual Polarization OTA Link at EuMW 2025: 63 Gbps Over the Air — and What the Demo Doesn't Show You

Rohde & Schwarz Wideband Modulated Load Pull: The Test That Deliberately Breaks Your Amplifier

Rohde & Schwarz ZNA at 67 GHz: When 16 Traces Tell You Everything — Except What You Need to Know

MACOM and NI at the Microwave Show: From 250W GaN to 140 GHz SDR — What a "Complete System" Actually Looks Like

Keysight Sub-THz Device Analysis at 307 GHz: How University of Stuttgart Is Building 6G IC Test Infrastructure

Keysight UXA + VDI WR 6.5 at 140 GHz: What a 16-QAM Constellation Actually Tells You

Aaronia AG at a Microwave Show: 3 THz/s Sweep Speed — World Record via USB, and What That Actually Means

Keysight FieldFox at a Microwave Show: From 14 GHz Pulse Sequences to 94 GHz mmWave — What "Field Test" Actually Means

Power Integrity at PCIM: What OMICRON Lab and Picotest Were Really Asking

Tektronix vs. Keysight at PCIM: Two Ways to Look Inside a SiC MOSFET

Wolfspeed Gen 4 SiC MOSFET at PCIM: 30–50% Less Turn-On Loss — But What Are You Actually Measuring?

SiC MOSFET Power Characterization at PCIM: Why Static and Dynamic Are Two Different Worlds

Double Pulse Testing, Three Ways: From Manual Bench to Automated Production Cell at PCIM

No Bulk Capacitor, No Problem: Inside TI's Single-Stage Micro Inverter Demo at PCIM

Two Oscilloscopes, One Wolfspeed Board: How Keysight Tackles the High-Side Measurement Problem at PCIM

The World's Only Fibre Optic Isolated Oscilloscope: Why Cleverscope CS548 Exists and What It Solves

Adaptive Gate Current Shaping: How Bosch EG120 Solves the Parallel SiC-MOSFET Balancing Problem

Measuring the Invisible: Isotropic EMF Measurement Up to 8 GHz and What WiFi 6E Changed

LISN + EMI Receiver + a Light Bulb: The Conducted Emissions Test That Every Product Needs

EMC & REGULATORY TESTING OF DUT WITH RADIO FUNCTIONALITY

Testing Automotive Radar in an EMC Storm: What Happens When 77 GHz Meets Interference

Compliance Testing Up to 44 GHz — And a Robot to Run It

Differential Mode vs Common Mode: Why Splitting EMI at the Source Changes Everything

The Microwave Oven on the Test Bench: What 225 MHz Real-Time Bandwidth Is Actually For

Synchronized, Automated, Multi-Band: The Keysight Approach to EMC and Wireless Coexistence Testing

DC to 40 GHz in Real Time: What the TDEMI ULTRA Is Actually Claiming

1000 MHz Real-Time: When EMI Measurement Becomes a 3D Map of Electromagnetic Space

510 MHz Real-Time: How IQ Capture Changes the Logic of EMI Measurement

Bode Plot as a Design Tool: How Filter Characterization Predicts EMC Compliance

When an Oscilloscope Becomes a Motor Drive Analyzer: The Case for Application-Specific Measurement

One Signal, Four Perspectives: What a 12-Bit Oscilloscope Actually Shows You

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