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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 .