Talking About Advanced Test
What you'll learn:
- The nature of test & measurement today.
- Demands on the test engineer.
- How software-defined tools can help create better test solutions.
The world of test & measurement is getting more complex and challenging in many ways. Multiple factors continue to impact the T&M industry, from materials to new topologies to smaller form factors with even higher levels of integration and power density. All of these aspects must be thoroughly tested in a device to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operation.
Device complexity is further exacerbated by the environments, both physical and virtual, that modern products are expected to function in. Obviously, application spaces such as Mil/Aero, automotive, or industrial are very demanding when it comes to temperature, dust, and humidity, but consumers are placing similar demands on everyday products.
In this podcast, we talk to the CEO of Liquid Instruments, Daniel Shaddock, about the current climate in the test & measurement industry, and the company’s software-defined test solutions. We also discuss the company's deployment of ChatGPT in its instrumentation to aid engineers in creating better code.
SHOW NOTES
01:05 – Software-Defined Instrumentation
05:42 – Neural Network
13:08 – Using AI Tools
16:26 – AI Challenges
19:08 – What's Happening at Liquid Instruments
About the Author
Alix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.
Daniel Shaddock
Co-founder and CEO, Liquid Instruments
Daniel Shaddock is a physicist, engineer, and entrepreneur known for his contributions to precision measurement and test instrumentation. He is the CEO and co-founder of Liquid Instruments, a company that develops reconfigurable test and measurement solutions for scientists and engineers.
Before founding Liquid Instruments, he was a professor at the Australian National University and a Directors Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed technologies for the LISA gravitational wave detector project and the GRACE Follow-on mission, the first interspacecraft laser interferometer. Shaddock’s expertise in optical and electronic instrumentation has led to innovations that simplify complex testing processes, accelerating research and development across industries.