Every machine has its own way of communicating with its operator. Some send status emails, some illuminate, but most of them vibrate and make noise. If it hums happily, that’s usually a good sign, but ...

RTL-SDR, the USB TV tuner turned software-defined radio is an amazing device, capable of listening to nearly anything from 25MHz to 1750MHz, fits in your pocket, and costs about $20. Even more ...

With the ever-expanding adoption of wireless in embedded systems of all types, there’s no question that having spectrum analyzer capability in an oscilloscope is a time-savings convenience for ...

A set of functions are presented for Octave/MATLAB that allow easy, consistent, and properly scaled DFT/FFT analysis of signals and noise. The techniques and functions presented are easily translated ...

The Rigol DSA815 spectrum analyzer The idea of “seeing” RF has always intrigued me, but short of some futuristic goggles, an RF spectrum analyzer is about as close as one can get. And for those of us ...

The crowded RF spectrum, compounded by the explosion in application spaces joining the cloud, demands advanced development tools able to provide deeper insights into signals and their measurement. Our ...

PerkinElmer’s Spectrum Two™ IR spectrometer provides fast and simple analysis of polymers. The instrument can be used and maintained easily. A Polymer Application Pack coupled with user-friendly ...

We’ve been using Cisco’s Spectrum Expert product since its origins at Cognio, and have found it to be a very useful tool at a very reasonable price (around $4,000). For this test we evaluated the ...