Instrument offers fast, practical way to test today’s dc power components

Instrument offers fast, practical way to test today’s dc power components

In this era of portable electronics, tight power budgets, and even tighter design schedules, not only is it critical to characterize complex power schemes, it has to be done quickly. But until the advent of the N6705A Dc Power Analyzer (see Electronic Products , July 2007, p. 104), the process of creating and programming an instrument setup was so time consuming that the haste of testing components often resulted in damage to devices.

A first-of-its-kind instrument, the N6705A changed all that by integrating several different types of test gear — four user-selectable and -confugurable benchtop power supplies, a DMM, an oscilloscope, an arbitrary waveform generator, and a datalogger — into one box that doesn’t require programming. The front-panel controls are so easy to use that an operator can set the instrument up without prior training — an aspect that suits the equipment not only for design but for manufacturing and troubleshooting as well.

Agilent Technologies , Santa Clara , CA
Sales 800-829-4444
http://www.agilent.com/find/N6705