Testing digital designs usually requires one or more digital signals, some of which can be very difficult to generate. Pattern generators are specifically designed to address this problem. Whatever ...

Engineers are beginning to appreciate that, from prototypes early in the design cycle through to final system test, a digital pattern generator (DPG) speeds up system debug and therefore shortens the ...

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Complete validation of a high-speedserial link (28 Gbits/s) requires long patterns–some 2 billion bits.Long simulation run times and limitations in oscilloscope memorylength make these tests time ...

If you would like to be able to generate a wealth of seamless patterns with almost limitless possibilities in both digital and fabric making applications. You’ll be pleased to know that the process of ...

The PXI Digital Pattern Instrument brings ATE-class digital to the PXI platform through features and programming that are familiar to semiconductor test engineers. Those features not only come through ...

In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by ...