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The new instrument combines an industry-leading state capture speed of 4 Gb/s on 68 channels and 2.5 Gb/s on 136 channels with the ability to reliably capture data on the industry's smallest eye openings, as small as 100 ps by 100 mV.

NI announced the new NI cRIO-9075 and cRIO-9076 integrated systems, which lower the cost of the CompactRIO platform for embedded control and monitoring applications and deliver an ideal solution for high-volume deployments and OEM applications.

New feature-packed TDS1000C-EDU Digital Oscilloscope offers an affordable way for schools, universities to give students hands-on training.

Tektronix announced two new versions of its performance oscilloscope families ranging from 500 MHz to 8 GHz designed to help embedded system design engineers troubleshoot their designs faster than ever before.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced shipment of the latest release of its flagship RF and microwave design and simulation platform, Advanced Design System 2011. As the industry's most comprehensive multi-technology design platform, ADS 2011 represents a significant breakthrough in electronic design automation.

Fluke Corporation introduced the Fluke 2AC VoltAlert™ AC non-contact voltage tester, the newest addition to the Fluke VoltAlert family. It includes new always-on circuitry and battery test feature for improved reliability and quicker response time.

NI developed it’s new LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS specifically for secondary school students to use with the LEGO Education robotics platform in classrooms or competitions. LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS is a teaching tool that helps students visually control and program MINDSTORMS NXT robots, while learning the same software used by scientists and engineers.

MD8480C now supports full W-CDMA/GSM wireless device testing, from release 99 to release 8, including DC-HSDPA and simultaneous 64QAM/MIMO.

The new Agilent’s PXA signal analyzer covers frequencies up to 50 GHz. With external mixing this performance can be extended up to 325 GHz and beyond which allows customers to develop technology for advanced radio astronomy research and new imaging techniques used in the medical and air travel industries.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) introduced three enhanced methods for real-time radio frequency (RF) emitter geolocation using a network of Agilent N6841A RF Sensors. The new Agilent N6854A-AG1 software estimates position of a non-cooperative intermittent or short-duration RF signal using measurements from the sensor network and calculations using enhanced time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) and received-signal-strength (RSS) techniques.