We all know how differential equations are a crucial part of engineering design and analysis. We have some powerful software tools for this today. Well, here is what led up to our modern analysis ...

When the School of Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles was chartered in 1945, Dean Llewellyn M. K. Boelter (1898 –1966) sought to purchase a computing device that would ...

Here at VCF, we stumbled across a gigantic contraption that spanned several tables. Rube Goldberg machine this was not. Instead, this device actually does something useful! [Tim Robinson’s] ...

Agilent Technologies has introduced a precision waveform analyzer in the form of a double-width plug-in for its model 86100C DCA-J (digital-communications analyzer)—an ultrahigh-bandwidth sequential ...

Automated test engineers now can use National Instruments new 400 and 200 Mb/s digital waveform generator/analyzers to interface to low-voltage differential signalling devices using the PXI platform.

When you think of analog computing, it’s possible you don’t typically think of FPGAs. Sure, a few FPGAs will have specialized analog blocks, but usually they are digital devices. [Bruce Land] — a name ...