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Test & Measurement

Anritsu ' s offering to Academia

Madhukar Tripathi Sr. Manager, Anritsu India
Anritsu offers RF & Microwave, Optical, Data, Advance Wireless Communication lab related solution to engineering colleges. Some of the instruments are used in Physics and nano Science lab as well. Some lab are knows as Antenna lab or research lab. Madhukar Tripathi in an interview with ELE Times discusses the product offerings for academia. Excerpts.
ELE Times: What are the latest equipments that you would
Master Software Tool( MST) or Sky Bridge are some of SW related
recommend for an engineering colleges under more
services under Anritsu banner.
sophisticated departments like VLSI, Digital signal processing,
Image processing etc?
Automation feature in Network Master MT9090A makes test procedure easy. This saves time in learning test set up and
Madhukar Tripathi: Anritsu offer R & D grade test and
instrument.
measurement instrument for various lab addressing to RF,
Microwave, Advance Communications, Data Quality and Signal
Integrity application labs. Various chips designed in VLSI Lab or other Labs need a series of test using VNA or Spectrum Analyzer or Signal generators.
Keeping in mind the requirement of quality engineers we need today, do you think that laboratories in Engineering Colleges and the educational sector are equipped with the latest equipment?
What equipment would you want them to work on to be competent enough to be employed in the industry?
ELE Times: In major research labs especially in IIT’ s, scholars often uses equipment for complex tasks, taking such scenario how difficult it becomes to offer high precision while maintaining cost and repairing.
We find that basic labs are OK in engineering colleges and these labs need upgrade to advance level of instrumentation.
Engineering colleges lab must have latest state-of-art product used by industry. This will bridge gap between Academia and
Madhukar Tripathi: IIT are having good lab and new products. IIT
industry.
have become a symbol of research and are carrying out many projects in collaboration with industry. There is no change in product’ s specs or supply and accuracy of measurement is maintained by following test procedures. Due to technology changes and back end supply of components sometime repair cost may be high. By proper use and care instruments can be used longer.
ELE Times: What are latest software you are offering to scholars for testing purpose and how its optimization time can be reduced?
Anritsu Handheld products have various SW for data processing and reporting purpose.
Site Master, Spectrum Master, VNA Master, OTDR, Optical
Spectrum Analyzer( OSA), Ethernet Analyzer are some of the products used by industry for various application in addition to traditional Training Kits or Osc or Power Supply etc instruments.
ELE Times: What are the advantages that your company offers to the Engineering College buying equipment for its lab?
Madhukar Tripathi: Anritsu offer is competitive price and stateof-art new products and technology for future engineering.
Anritsu Shockline VNA, Anritsu 1 port USB VNA are some of economical solution for low budget labs. These instruments allow students to lean industry used T & M in college lab and increase scope in campus selection. Student with practical knowledge of
Madhukar Tripathi: Fiber Visualizer is new feature offering easy
T & M get preference by many companies.
graphical summary and PDF reporting for OFC network; used by
OTDR and this gives inside picture of Optical Fiber Network.
Anritsu recently introduced mmwave Spectrum Analyzer which is unique cost value proposition to educational market.

Latest Technology at the most economical cost from Matro Electronics

On latest equipment:
Ÿ We are in the process of offering a new series of Multi Application All in One DSO i. e they can be configured according to specific need with a built-in AWG( arbitrary function generator)/ Multimeter / Counters / Dataloggers with USB( MetroQ Owon XDS n-in-1 Series).
Ÿ They have the latest Signal decoding outputs compatible to RS 232 / SPI / I2C / CAN for research and project building.
Ÿ They have touch screen displays to enhance the experience.
Ÿ All this being built in a single instrument makes it a very economical option.
On Hardware and Software: keeping the spirit of " MetroQ " company motto i. e.‘ latest technology at the most economical
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cost’ we have new Bluetooth TRMS Multimeters, 5 & 1 / 2 Digit Bench Multimeters with coloured screens and Data logger, Coloured Touch Screen DSO, Current Probes for DSO. We provide full back up and service guarantees for 3-5 years. Equipment to work on: Our Engineering Colleges in India are not really inclined to go for latest technology in Instruments. This is because of their limitations in the syllabus they have to adhere to from various state boards. As the syllabus takes time to change and they have to teach what is there, they do not find any need to get the latest instruments. The colleges can go for the instruments which in a cost effective way can solve both the syllabus requirements and also are capable of showcasing the latest technologies to the students.