After a decade of serving as chief operating officer and part of the executive board of Rohde & Schwarz, Peter Riedel (pictured below) is retiring from the company, citing personal reasons. Riedel, who took the COO role in 2014, will maintain a role...
Keysight Technologies this week announced that it has added a software option that will enable pulse generation capabilities to its FieldFox handheld radio frequency analyzer, including the ability to generate FM chirps, AM pulses, FM triangles, continuous wave signals and custom sequences.
Keysight said that...
Emerson has officially completed its acquisition of National Instruments (NI), at an equity value of $8.2 billion.
NI will become a new Test and Measurement business segment within Emerson's Software and Control group. Emerson indicated that it expects the addition of NI to boost...
One way to asses what test and measurement companies think is coming next in terms of needed technologies and capabilities is to look at the ways in which they have been expanding their portfolios with new automation and analytics offerings. They are also increasingly...
NI and Spirent Communications have teamed up on what they say is the "first and only" comprehensive test solution for the Open RAN Radio Unit (RU).
The new offering uses application layer testing with "any commercial device" for real-time O-RU validation, the partners said,...
Keysight Technologies reported a strong second quarter, with record revenues that were up 3% to $1.39 billion, or 5% when the impacts of foreign currency impacts and revenues from businesses acquired or divested were excluded.
Net income for the quarter was $283 million, up from...
NI has been sharpening its automotive testing capabilities in the past few years, racking up acquisitions like the electric vehicle division of Germany-based Heinzinger Electronic and the EV test systems business of Kratzer Automation AG, both in 2022, and projects like its launch of...
Emerson is 'diversifying ... into test and measurement automation'
National Instruments, which said in January that it was exploring its options for a sale, is set to be acquired by industrial conglomerate Emerson for $2 billion, or $60 per share.
Emerson already owns 2% of...
Company also put in place measures to prevent a hostile takeover
NI said Friday that it has been approached by potential buyers and that its board of directors has begun a review of its strategic options.
"The comprehensive review will include consideration of a full range...
Recent NI report identifies a performance gap between companies with "advanced" data strategies
Digital transformation as a concept has been floating around enterprise and industrial circles for some time. But it's still not necessarily a given that companies are successfully pursuing it and have a...
Sarah Yost, NI’s senior business development manager, discusses why it's too soon to get excited about 6G, as well as how the company’s software-defined radios are supporting the PAWR program, which is, among other things, exploring how to build drone applications on top of...
Consumers and carriers will both benefit from the inclusion of mmWave support in the iPhone 12
From the perspective of NI's Head of Semiconductor Marketing David Hall, the release of the iPhone 12, which supports both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G, will significantly...
The true benefits of 5G will be realized with massive scale, something that operators will have to pay mightily to achieve. In carrier-led effort to shift network economics in their favor, the open RAN ecosystem has flourished in recent years and is poised for...
The 4th edition of NI's Wireless Research Handbook offers a selection of 2-page case studies from top researchers around the world.  Different applications from mmWave beam tracking to precoding for satellite communications are included.
Explore the handbook to see how software defined radios are being used...
It's important to think about the drone applications you can build on top of 5G, says NI
The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program earlier this week announced the first contributing equipment partners to the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW) testbed, which explores the...
Windstream and optical networking company Infinera said that they successfully achieved 800 Gbps single-wavelength transmission over 730 kilometers on Windstream’s long-haul network between San Diego, California and Phoenix, Arizona.
The two companies also claimed another industry record by looping the signal back and achieving 700G...
Semiconductor design company Synopsys has acquired analytics company Qualtera, which focuses on analysis of semiconductor design and manufacturing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Synopsys said the transaction was not material to its financials.
Synopsys said that Qualtera's analytics, combined with Synopys' own...
OptimalPlus focuses on data analytics for semiconductor manufacturing
National Instruments has agreed to buy OptimalPlus, a data analytics company focused on the semiconductor manufacturing space, for $365 million.
The transaction is supposed to expand NI's enterprise software capabilities, the test company said, "to provide customers with...
Keysight Technologies said this week that Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten will be using Keysight's test equipment in support of its Rakuten Mobile network launch.
Rakuten Mobile, which just began offering its low-cost data service to consumers last week, will be using Keysight's 5G network and...
Cadence Design Systems and National Instruments' new strategic alliance focuses on electronic system innovation for communications
Cadence Design Systems and National Instruments have put together a strategic alliance aimed at bringing more innovation to electronic system design, with a focus on communications, which will more...
Distance to urban areas is a key factor determining the experience rural users will have, OpenSignal says
How well are mobile networks working for rural U.S. residents? OpenSignal said that there are two primary factors in rural mobile network experience: the proximity of the area...
Viavi Solutions has extended its TeraVM's 5G emulation capabilities to include Standalone 5G New Radio as well as Non-standable 5G NR. While most networks in the planning and deployment phase currently rely on the NSA standard, SA networks are expected to be close behind.
Viavi...
Chipset production for 5G has been ramping quickly over the past six months and is expected to continue through the rest of this year, according to David Hall, head of semiconductor marketing at National Instruments.
NI used its annual NI Week event to highlight its...
Automotive testing came into focus this week, with a number of companies involved in demonstrations and development related to testing of various types of vehicle-related technologies.
The 5G Automotive Association conducted cellular vehicle-to-everything testing in Berlin, with participation from BMW Group, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer...
