NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced this week that it was turning off an instrument on one of its spacecraft in an effort to conserve power. On Tuesday, NASA said it shut ...

One application that uses a precision power supply and DMM involves characterizing the current drawn by a device or circuit board at different voltage levels. Figure 1 shows a typical setup. Engineers ...

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Power Grid Components, Inc. announces the acquisition of Instrument Transformer Equipment Corporation Power Grid Components, Inc. (“Power Grid”), a company formed by Shorehill Capital LLC (“Shorehill” ...

In order to test multiple ICs simultaneously with different test voltages and currents, semiconductor automatic test equipment (ATE) uses multiple source measurement units (SMUs). Each SMU requires ...

NASA’s aging interstellar probe is gradually losing power, forcing the space agency to shut down one of its science instruments to conserve its energy. Launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission has ...

I recently attended the Texas Instruments 2018 Power Supply Design Seminar held in Phoenix, AZ. There were engineers from local companies from all around the Phoenix area in attendance that filled the ...

Fig. 1. Typical automotive instrument clusters showing (a)Enhanced instrument display for the 2014 Cadillac XTS, and (b)Instrument cluster for the 2014 Ford Focus ST. Automotive instrument clusters ...