The FCC is likely to approve the expansion of unlicensed airwaves, opening the door to supercharged Wi-Fi networks that will do away with the need to find a wireless hot spot and will provide the scaffolding for new applications that are not yet imagined, experts say.Read more in the New York Times. … [Read more...]
EMI’s Effect on Slot Machines
In the course of answering a reader’s question about whether his aunt’s pacemaker would increase her odds of winning in Vegas, online gaming magazine Casino City discussed electromagnetic interference’s affect on slot machines. Although slot machine expert John Robison determined that the pacemaker would most likely not interfere with the machines, he recounted his favorite … [Read more...]
Company Expands Product Line to Offer RF Test Equipment
ZTEC Instruments, a builder of modular oscilloscopes and waveform generators, will expand into the radio frequency test equipment market with its ZT8441 RF/IF Digitizer. The ZT8441 RF/IF Digitizer comes standard with a full featured, on-instrument spectrum analyzer, and is poised to supply the RF market with a testing solution at a competitive price.Visit ZTEC Instruments to … [Read more...]
Light Rail EMI Agreement Reached
The University of Minnesota and a local government agency have reached a tentative agreement on how to protect the university’s research facilities from vibration and electromagnetic interference caused by a light-rail line. Read more from the Minnesota Daily. … [Read more...]
IEC 2010 Thomas A. Edison Award Laureates Announced
Among this year’s International Electrotechnical Commission’s Thomas A. Edison Award Laureates is Ron Petersen, chairman of the IEC’s Technical Committee 106 which deals with methods for the assessment of electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields associated with human exposure. Read more from the IEC. … [Read more...]
FCC Meeting to Include White Space Discussion
The Federal Communications Commission has announced a tentative agenda for the next open meeting scheduled for Sept. 23. One item on the agenda is TV White Spaces Second Memorandum Opinion and Order that will create opportunities for investment and innovation in advanced Wi-Fi technologies and a variety of broadband services by finalizing provisions for unlicensed wireless … [Read more...]
IEC Releases Magnetic Probe Method Corrigendum
The IEC recently released a corrigendum for IEC 61967-6, a standard that deals with measurement of conducted electromagnetic emissions from integrated circuits in the 150 kHz to 1 GHz range by the magnetic probe method.Read the corrigendum from the IEC. … [Read more...]
IEC Releases Second Edition of IEC 61000-4-20
The International Electrotechnical Commission has released the second edition of its standard for emission and immunity testing in transverse electromagnetic (TEM) waveguides.Preview this standard from the IEC. … [Read more...]
Researcher Receives Patent for Electromagnetic Technology
The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Dr. Mark DeCoster, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, for his invention of an "Electromagnetic Probe Device" – a technology developed at Louisiana Tech's Institute for Micromanufacturing. DeCoster, in collaboration with co-inventor Dr. Nicolas Bazan of the LSU Health Sciences Center … [Read more...]
Toyota's Acceleration Problem Could Be Customer-Based
Even after theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA) got NASA involved in electronic-electromagnetic interference research regarding Toyota’s sudden acceleration problems, NHTSA analysis shows that in many cases, the driver didn’t apply the brakes or had stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake. Read more in the Washington Post. … [Read more...]
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