Electronic Design

Packaging & Interconnects: RF Center-Probe Test Socket Accepts 14- To 27-mm2 Devices

A new RF center-probe test socket accepts devices from 14 to 27 mm2. It's designed for pitches down to 0.5 mm and speeds from 1 to over 10 GHz in CSPs, MicroBGAs, MLFs, QFNs, and LGAs. A four-point ...
EDN

Aries Electronics’ Protect-A-Probe anti-diffusion gold coating is now available for all spring probes

Bristol, PA. March 10 – Aries Electronics, a U.S. manufacturer of standard, programmed, and custom interconnection products, burn-in and test sockets used worldwide, today introduced, at the BiTS ...
Electronic Design

RF contact probe is designed for high-speed data connectors

The new P819 from Peak Test Services is a spring-contact probe specifically designed for contacting HSD (high-speed data) connectors in RF applications. The probe is equipped with a calyx spring for ...
EDN

Basics of RF Field Probe Selection for EMC Testing

Often underestimated, RF field probes are critical to the implementation of a proper radiated immunity test system. All too often, system specifiers gloss over this essential element after having ...
Hackaday

RF probe

It’s a problem that has dogged electronic engineers since the first electrons were coaxed along a wire: that measuring instruments can themselves disrupt the operation of a circuit. Older multimeters ...