Busy, busy, busy...

I have been slacking lately when it comes to writing this blog but I promise that the engineering team at C&H has not been slacking when it comes to development. Let me try to update you as to what has been going on.

I personally have spent a significant portion of time over the last couple months completing our Linux Development Kit for C&H's VXI Intelligent Carriers. We have supported Linux for a couple years now and we have several customers that have had great success developing applications utilizing Linux on our intelligent carriers. Up to this point however, our documentation and support has been rudimentary requiring the developer to have advanced knowledge of embedded Linux development. The Linux development kit includes documentation, hardware and software that accelerate Linux development on C&H's intelligent carriers and greatly lowers the bar for developing an application.

In my last post I discussed reference disciplining. That post was a conclusion of an effort to upgrade the reference disciplining feature our MA209 100MHz Pulse Generator. The new reference disciplining features greatly improve the functionality of the MA209 and deliver greater frequency stability of pulse waveforms.

In addition to those two items, we have been hard at work completing our latest M-Module, a 3-Channel Counter/Timer module with immense flexibility that can provide both source and measurement functions. This new product will be featured soon on our website and will be a topic on this blog as soon as the product release is official. We also have in the works, an exciting update to the EM405-8 LXI M-Module Carrier and a new Data Acquisition M-Module, both to be completed by the end of the year.

Finally, in just over a week, we'll be off to Autotestcon in Salt Lake City. This gives us a chance to catch up with what the rest of the industry is doing, to collaborate with peers and colleagues from other companies and to showcase our products at one of the ATE industries' largest trade shows.

It has been a quick and busy year so far. If you follow this blog you may get the impression that not much has been going on at C&H over the last few months. In reality, the lack of activity on the blog is indicative of just the opposite. Between now and the end of the year, I should have a lot to write about as most of our recent work comes to fruition.