Companies' news

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has drawn up its mid-term business plan for the period through the end of fiscal year 2015. This is the first step to achieving the long-term vision of becoming the global No. 1 company in the industrial automation (IA) and control business.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) introduced its 89600 WLA software, a MAC-layer complement to the company's industry-leading 89600 VSA software. The key benefit is the ability to view and interpret RF activity and measurements-retransmissions, power, modulation format, timing and so on-in a MAC-message context, and to also view and interpret MAC messages in an RF context.

The Advantest spectrum analyzers offer a variety of applications, including propagation measurements, electromagnetic field radiation, interference monitoring and measurements, satellite signal monitoring and phased array antenna measurements.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced the first complete and compliant test solution for 60-GHz wireless devices, including WiGig, WirelessHD and IEEE 802.11ad devices. Agilent's compliant solutions cover the lifecycle for mmWave devices from system-level design to verification testing.

National Instruments introduced the Watchdog Agent Prognostics Toolkit for NI LabVIEW system design software, which expands the capabilities of LabVIEW in machine prognostics and health management (PHM) applications.

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it is adding new features and options to its recently launched N934xC handheld spectrum analyzer (HSA) family. The introduction also includes HSA PC software enhancements.

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a frequency converter measurement capability for its PNA and PNA-X Series network analyzers. With this capability, engineers now have a quicker, easier way to fully characterize mixers and frequency converters up to 67 GHz.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation opened on September 1 an advanced laboratory in Kazan, Tatarstan. The establishment of this new laboratory was a joint effort by Yokogawa Electric CIS and Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU).

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) expanded its award-winning PNA-X Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer to 67 GHz. A new 67-GHz phase-reference calibration standard, configured to work with the 67-GHz PNA-X NVNA, is also now available.

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