Tuesday, January 19, 2010

WOW - new web search tool!

Heard of WolframAlpha?

At Saelig, we are always searching the web for new products to introduce into USA, so this might be a great tool in our information gathering efforts.

This will give Google and others a good challenge!.

Go to the web site below and watch the video.

It may become one of the most versatile web tools available. From currency conversion, fact finding, or just plain having fun challenging and testing applications, it also may become a powerful tool in the business world. Check something in medical, math, history, engineering, geography, chemistry, etc. It is impressive already, but still in development. It may soon become your "go to" for information.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

Monday, January 18, 2010

PicoScope software now offers mask limit testing

PicoScope 6.3.43 - which works with all our scopes from Pico Technology - has a new mask limit testing feature, designed to aid debugging and production testing. This feature allows you to classify waveforms as correct or faulty according to their shape. You define the acceptable shape by drawing a mask, entering its coordinates manually, importing a file or copying an existing waveform. You then apply the mask to an input channel, and PicoScope highlights any parts of the input waveform that cross the mask. The program counts the number of failed waveforms, so that you can run unattended tests.

The new release of PicoScope also includes serial decoding improvements; support for the newPicoScope 6000 Series; and various bug fixes.

You can also now control a PicoScope oscilloscope in MATLAB using the driver software that we supply. A MATLAB user has published a guide to doing this using the PicoScope 2205, along with an example program. You can adapt this method for use with any PicoScope oscilloscope.

Read interface to Picoscope analyzer by Doekle Yntema on the mathworks.com website

Pico products are among the finalists for two of this year's T&M World awards. The PicoScope 9211 sampling PC oscilloscope has been nominated for Best in Test, and the PicoScope 3000 Series oscilloscopes with built-in waveform generators have been nominated for the Test of Time award. You can vote once in each category, so please visit the T&M World website and show your support for Pico.

Vote in the Best in Test award nominations (oscilloscopes)

Vote in the Test of Time award nominations