Friday, April 30, 2021

Nuts & Volts ...

 At Saelig, we create our own marketing graphics in-house. Here's part of a new full-page ad we are putting in the excellent Nuts & Volts Magazine, featuring two of our favorite suppliers. https://www.nutsvolts.com/ #PicoTech #siglent @Siglent_Tech @nutsvolts @picotech



Thursday, April 29, 2021

World's Smallest 10MHz - 15GHz RF Signal Generator!

The Windfreak SynthHD Mini is a software tunable Signal Generator that operates from 10MHz to 15GHz with a 0.01Hz resolution. It delivers an output power of up to 20dBm with a minimum resolution of 0.01dB and supports FM, AM, Pulse, Sweep, and List modulations. It has a 32-bit ARM processor and non-volatile on-board flash memory which can be used to program the generator for standalone operation on any frequency, power, sweep or modulation setting and combinations thereof, running without a PC connection for field work. This is a highly mobile, low power and light weight solution for RF signal generation needs.

The SynthHD Mini RF Signal Generator can be powered by a device running Windows, Linux or Android via its USB port. It requires a DC supply of 5 V, consumes 400 mA of current. This generator is housed in a compact module that measures 1.6 x 1.6 x 0.5 inches and is suitable for use in applications such as wireless communications systems, RF and Microwave radios, software defined radio (SDR), radar, automated test equipment (ATE), EMC - radiated immunity pre-compliance testing, electronic warfare (EW), law enforcement, quantum computing and device research, plasma physics and medical research and treatment. 

http://www.saelig.com/windfreak/synthhd-mini.htm


Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Happy Birthday Saelig Company!

Saelig was founded on April 28, 1988.  Fairport, NY-based Saelig (www.saelig.com) specializes in creating markets for unique industrial electronics products, coupled with high quality technical support. 

The name 'saelig' is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning 'happy, prosperous, and blessed'. The equivalent German word 'selig' is still in use in Germany with the same meaning.

Saelig is a full-service establishment, offering marketing promotion, technical advice, sales fulfillment, and comprehensive after-sales support. We market many measurement, control, and display products. One remarkable difference is that we create and distribute press releases for our suppliers at no charge, funded solely by resultant sales. We are distributors for around 100 electronics companies from around the world.

We talk with our customers, responding promptly to every request, complaint or compliment. We offer free tech support via phone and email. Our customers know they can reach us and get help. We have grown a sophisticated online presence that encompasses effective on-line sales shop, Google and Bing Adwords and FaceBook advertising, regular contact with editors and product reviewers, and issuing regular newsletters to our customers to target a wide range of end-users, including: automation, agriculture, automotive, aerospace & defense, medical & pharmaceutical manufacturing, etc. Products lines are offered at highly competitive prices, accompanied by full in-house technical support, exceptional customer service, and fast delivery.

As a technical office for overseas and domestic companies, we eagerly promote new and unique products to our large customer base. Our engineers and marketing & sales staff assist with USA inquiries and sales, providing quotation, credit-checking, importing, and shipping assistance – in effect, creating an instant USA office for our suppliers. And we regularly sell high value and high volume products to manufacturers, as well as military and aerospace companies.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

New PicoScope 6000E FlexRes 4-Channel 750MHz/1GHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes

 

Saelig Introduces PicoScope 6000E 4-Channel 750MHz/1GHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes
The PicoScope 6000E 4-channel oscilloscope series has grown to include 750MHz and 1GHz active probe versions, bringing very high speed performance to the 4 analog channel, 16 digital channel oscilloscope world, with up to 5GSa/s real-time sampling and 4GSa deep memory

Today the Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced new 750MHz and 1GHz models to the 4-channel PicoScope 6000E Series, which provide 8 to 12 bits of vertical resolution, and up to 5GSa/s sampling rate with 4GSa memory, allowing these scopes to display single-shot pulses with up to 200ps time resolution.  The four new 4-channel models added to the existing 6000E series are the PicoScope 750MHz 6405E and the 1GHz 6406E with 8-bit A/D resolution and the PicoScope 750MHz 6425E and the 1GHz 6426E with 8, 10, or 12 bits ‘FlexRes’ resolution. The screen update rate is a remarkable 300,000 waveforms per second. An active probe interface on these scopes allows the use of optional matching 750MHz or 1.3GHz Active Probes.

Pico ‘FlexRes’ flexible-resolution oscilloscopes allows the scope hardware to be configured to optimize either the sampling rate or the resolution: a fast (5GSa/s) 8-bit oscilloscope for looking at digital signals, a 10-bit oscilloscope for general-purpose use, or a high-resolution 12-bit oscilloscope for audio work and other sensitive analog applications.  All models can operate with an extra 4 bits of resolution with the enhanced vertical resolution software feature — a digital signal processing technique built into PicoScope 6, the complementary software.  Additionally, these oscilloscopes offer 8 or 16 optional digital channels when using the plug-in TA369 MSO pods, enabling accurate time-correlation of both analog and digital channels.     More here: http://www.saelig.com/pr/ps6400e.html

Monday, April 26, 2021

Evaluation Engineering just published my article on detecting Counterfeit ICs

Evaluation Engineering just published my article on detecting Counterfeit ICs during this chip crisis.

“Fake” chips present a huge issue for manufacturing companies trying to source ICs from non-traditional channels. With the current worldwide chip shortage, manufacturers are desperately scrambling to keep their production lines going for electronics goods and automobiles. One solution many companies are turning to is the so-called “gray market” – non-authorized suppliers of obsolete and excess component stocks. While this can be a quick fix, it presents a problem that is challenging to detect and eliminate – that of counterfeit ICs.


Friday, April 23, 2021

16 Considerations When Choosing an Oscilloscope

 Choosing the best new digital oscilloscope for your needs can be challenging, especially now as there are so many more things you can now do with a scope. Where will it be used? On the bench, or does it need to be portable for traveling to a customer site? Do you need to project the image for lots of people to see or is it just for your use? How many electrical signals do you need to measure at once? Analog and digital signals? What is the highest frequency of signal you need to measure? What bandwidth do you need? Remember – when seeing a good representation of a 50MHz square-wave you'll need a scope bandwidth of at least 500MHz. Cost and bandwidth are related! What are the maximum and minimum amplitudes of signals that you need to measure? Are your signals repetitive or single shot? Do you need to view signals in the frequency domain (spectrum analysis) as well as the time domain? What's your budget?

Bearing these factors in mind, on this link are a few criteria to consider before making (or regretting) your purchase.

See the latest Saelig Newsletter: "Choosing An Oscilloscope"

  http://www.saelig.com/.../saelig-042221-newsletter.pdf

Thursday, April 22, 2021

How Can You Test Shielded RF Isolation?

Test shielding isolation using this handy test verification kit! Designer John Ramsey demonstrates this sensitive hand-held spectrum analyzer and high power test signal source combo to easily measure test enclosure isolation better than -100 dB. No adjustments! - just turn it on.



https://youtu.be/tc2vPaaQE6w