Workbench Upgrade Automates Testing Routines to Improve Lab Efficiency
Testing, whether for validation or diagnosis, is always tricky, because it requires the controlled creation of a bunch of different conditions. If you’ve ever tried to diagnose an intermittent fault, you know how frustrating that can be. The solution is meticulous procedures with good methodology and that is — almost by definition — a slog. So, element14 Presents' Clem Mayer found a way to automate a lot of his testing work through equipment on his bench.
For this kind of work, Mayer was mostly interested in analyzing power. With a rock steady power supply feeding DC to a single discrete component, that’s really simple and predictable. But real-world projects and devices aren’t like that and the way power wiggles itself through the circuits quickly becomes very unintuitive. Mayer's new suite of instruments all work together to produce power (and waveforms) and analyze the results. Oh, and he got a...
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