Whether you’re putting pencil to paper for your next program bid, assessing the mass-migration costs to move your teams and testers to Windows 10, or portfolio-managing software engineers to support a growing inventory of legacy testers, you are consistently evaluated on your ability to manage cost and risk. You...
Published: Jun 05, 2019
Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major quality issues in the products that represent the company brand in the hands of customers.The costs, however, can be significant and are often greatly misunderstood, especially when there’s no...
Published: Feb 19, 2020
The audio market for wireless Bluetooth headsets is growing rapidly. People have gotten used to wireless audio systems, and the mobile phone industry is pushing towards a world without audio connectors and cables. Most of the average users who think about Bluetooth audio picture clumsy over-ear headsets with very little...
Published: Nov 01, 2018
A VCXO is a crystal oscillator where its output frequency changes in direct proportion to the application of an input control voltage. There are many names given or assigned to this output frequency being changed with the control voltage, which can be confusing.
Absolute Pulling Range (APR) has become a very...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Cicoil continues its proud history of innovation, with the company’s automated, state-of-the-art facility in Valencia, California. By implementing the latest lean manufacturing production techniques, Cicoil continues to design and manufacture the highest quality products, with fast, responsive lead times for our...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
Safety, availability, and cost considerations can make performing thorough tests of embedded control devices
using the complete system impractical.
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is a real-time test technique used to test these devices more efficiently.
During HIL test, the physical system that interfaces...
Published: May 01, 2019
To investigate the stability of a switched-mode power supply, a Bode plot created with an oscilloscope is ideal for checking the critical phase margin and gain margin values. The factors that determine how satisfactory the results from Bode plot measurements will be, need to taken into consideration as part of the preparation....
Published: Jun 04, 2020
Adding security to a device costs extra money, time, power consumption and makes everything worse. The only reason for adding security to a device is the need to improve marketing – security components help to sell more products. To participate in the evolution of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things and cloud technologies...
Published: Sep 21, 2020
Today, R&D engineers face challenging time-to-market goals. Extending the product development schedule and delaying the product launch can prove to be extremely costly in terms of opportunity cost and lost market share. Nearly 50% of products fail EMC compliance the first time.
Every day spent on debugging, isolating...
Published: Jun 04, 2020
Feed-forward headsets typically are more easily developed because the design engineer usually does not have to deal with stability issues. A major drawback of this topology, however, is wind noise, since the ANC microphones are directly exposed to the ambient. An alternative that overcomes this drawback is the use of a...
Published: Nov 01, 2018
Rail voltages are getting smaller, and tolerances are decreasing. As a result, making accurate power rail measurements has become much more difficult.
Industry dynamics are driving both a decrease in rail voltage values as well as tighter tolerances across a wide range of rails. Making an accurate ripple measurement...
Published: Jun 04, 2020
The more successful a gate driver is in reducing power-up and power-down times, the bigger the headache for accurate measurements. Both choosing the right probe and optimizing the probing technique are significant factors in improving measurement accuracy.
This whitepaper provides guidelines.
Published: Jun 04, 2020
ECUs became a standard component in most vehicles. As a computer designed to solve a very specific problem, the ECU is a fundamental component in an automobile. Modern vehicles can contain over 100 ECUs with many different purposes.
This white paper explores different approaches to test automotive electronic control...
Published: Feb 19, 2020
Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major quality issues in the products that represent the company brand in the hands of customers.
The costs, however, can be significant and are often greatly misunderstood, especially when there’s no easy way...
Published: May 01, 2019