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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the release of five new, higher-power members of the Agilent U2000 Series of USB-based power sensors. With the addition of these devices, the U2000 Series now covers a power range of -60 dBm to +44 dBm and a frequency range of 9 kHz to 24 GHz. Because these affordable sensors operate without power meters or external power adapters, they save bench space and simplify field work.

The new Fluke 225 ScopeMeter test tool gives you all the functionality of the 190C ScopeMeter Series, plus more! With built in bus health test the new ScopeMeter 225 is the only tool that can validate signal integrity on multiple types of industrial networks. Whatever type of industrial network you have, the new ScopeMeter 225 is more than a match for the job!

National Instruments announced a high-performance 8-slot chassis that delivers deterministic expansion I/O to the NI LabVIEW graphical development platform. The new chassis provides high-speed, jitter-free communication for applications such as distributed control, machine building and hardware in the loop.

Tektronix, Inc., a leading, worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the new AWG7000B and AWG5000B Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWG). The AWG B series provides a 20% performance boost over many of the prior AWG instruments and continues to be the world’s fastest and most capable family of AWG’s, designed to meet the test needs for high-speed serial data buses and wideband RF applications. With 9.6 GHz effective RF output, 10 bit resolution, and sample rates up to 24 GS/s, the AWG7000B is the only AWG that can produce high-speed serial waveforms with real life imperfections including noise, jitter, pre/de -emphasis and multi-level signaling up to 8 Gb/s.

Pendulum Instruments, a company of the Orolia Group, announces the introduction of CNT-91R, an all-inclusive high performance calibrator of frequency sources, that combines high resolution measurements and advanced analysis, and a built-in ultra-stable Rubidium atomic reference clock. Its compact format, and its short warm-up time make the CNT-91R an ideal transportable frequency calibrator/analyzer.

Tektronix, Inc. a leading, worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced availability of the first published test procedures for physical layer testing of the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 standard. Tektronix provides a comprehensive high-speed serial data test suite for the SATA physical layer design and debug.

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announces its Series 2600A System SourceMeter Instrument family. They provide unmatched ease-of-use, measurement performance, and flexibility in order to speed time-to-market for its users, lower cost of test, and simplify the process of making high performance measurements. The Series 2600A is Keithley's newest version of its award-winning SourceMeter Instrument platform. It is a proven platform that combines a precision power supply, true current source, DMM, arbitrary waveform generator, V or I pulse generator with measurement, electronic load, and trigger control - all in a single instrument.