When designing or verifying a safety instrumented function (SIF), it’s common to hear terms such as PFDavg (average ...

Classic fault detection and classification has some classic problems. It’s reactive, time-consuming to set up, and any ...

Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Jerry Walker] repairs a Tektronix 577 curve tracer. A curve tracer is a piece of equipment which plots I-V (current vs voltage) curves, among other things.