Industry News

TÜV SÜD America, part of the global TÜV SÜD testing, inspection, and certification organization, is pleased to announce that it has expanded Battery Testing capabilities in its Auburn Hills, Michigan and Newmarket, Ontario lab facilities.

CONEC, a manufacturer of high-quality connectors, has developed and expanded its combination mixed layout D-subminiature connector family by adding high density (size 22) signal contact layouts.

James W. Moore, an expert software engineer who has developed standards for the field and has been a driving force in unifying international standards for consistent guidelines, is being honored by IEEE with the 2011 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional association.

Election results were reported during the annual ESD Association business meeting luncheon at the 2011 EOS/ESD Symposium, in Anaheim, CA.

Elected to the Board of Directors, by the members of the ESD Association, for a three-year term from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014, were Kevin Duncan, Seagate Technology; Harald Gossner, Intel Mobile Communications; Michael G. Khazhinsky, Silicon Labs; and Alan Righter, Analog Devices.

Rohde & Schwarz has added a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) to its R&S®UPP Audio Analyzer to enable the generation and analysis of HDMI data streams. The R&S®UPP-B4 Series supports the latest HDMI 1.4a standard and provides connections for source and sink devices as well as an auxiliary video input and monitor output.

On December 6, 2011, MET Labs will launch the Program for Testing Medical Devices for Susceptibility to RFID, to determine potential adverse events of radio frequency identification (RFID) emissions on electronic medical devices.