Santa Clara, Calif.—Agilent Technologies Inc. has expanded its Universal Serial Bus (USB) test portfolio with what it is calling the industry's first automated calibration of a USB 3.0 pattern ...

[Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based development board to output different test patterns in PAL/NTSC. If one is checking ...

The original "Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark", released in 2009, offered some excellent patterns to help setting up TVs, and ingenious test patterns to judge the performance of deinterlacers and ...

Did you just get a brand new Smart TV and now you're looking for ways to calibrate the image? Here's how to do so without ...

Today's methods for BER (bit-error-rate) testing of high-speed serial links such as PCIe and SATA rely on predetermined patterns that don't represent real-world situations. These patterns use a ...

The Sarnoff Digital Test Pattern When I was approached about evaluating the Sarnoff Digital Test Pattern, my interest was piqued immediately. After all, it's been a long time since most of us have ...

Modern radio frequency (RF) components introduce many challenges to outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) suppliers whose objective is to ensure products are assembled and tested to meet ...

Calibration always seems to be scheduled at the most critical time in a project. For example, assume that a piece of test equipment is on a six-month calibration cycle. At month five, the design ...