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This paper concerns the local and remote use of an Integrated Circuits (IC) Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for both educational and engineering purposes. This experience was initiated in 1998 in the context of a French network (CNFM) in order to provide a distant control to industrial equipment for academic and industrial people. The actual shared resource is a Verigy V93K System on Chip (SoC) ...

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has recently completed development of the first industry standard for a reliable, spill-proof locomotive refueling system. The Locomotive Fueling Interface Standard (LFIS) is an open, non-proprietary standard that incorporates a combination of the latest, proven refueling equipment technologies adapted for use in the railroad environment. The LFIS was...

A portable signal generator that simulates the amplitude and frequency of neuronal signals for testing extracellular recording amplifiers is described. The signal generator is easy to construct and it is extremely useful in tracing signal processing stages in neurophysiological equipment.

New technologies continue to be developed to improve the practice of radiation therapy. As several of these technologies have been implemented clinically, the Therapy Committee and the Quality Assurance and Outcomes Improvement Subcommittee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine commissioned Task Group 147 to review the current nonradiographic technologies used for localization a...

Electromagnetic non-destructive controls are performed daily by steel manufacturers and user companies. Many methods exist, including Eddy Current Testing (ECT), Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI), Incremental Permeability (MIP), Barkhausen noise (MBN) … In this domain, progresses constant, however there limitations accurate simulation tools able to improve the efficiency still expected. Most o...