Racal Instruments' commitment to quality was recently recognized by Intel, as the company earned the coveted SCQI (Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement) Award for the second consecutive year - a first for any test instrument company.

Products and Services

• Systems and Integration
  Over the last few years, considerable growth has taken place in the ATEmarket, and Racal Instruments has become a key supplier of systems andsub-systemsfor factory test and field product support. Through its Freedom rangeof products the company has become a skilled integrator and one of theworld'sleading suppliers of test systems to both commercial and military customers.Specific applications which have been addressed recently include laserdiode burn-in, jet engine test, automotive test, radar simulation and digitalcommunicationstest.
  
• Broadband Test
  Racal Instruments, the only test instrument company with a BroadbandGroup, offers a range of solutions for laser diode burn-in, characterization,and Broadband functional test. The company's wide variety of standard and customizedinstrumentation products, along with its strength in mechanical engineering,provide a solid foundation to create optimal solutions for laser diodetest systems specific to CoS, Butterfly, or proprietary packaging.
  
• Modular Instrumentation
  Programmable products from Racal Instruments' range use both IEEE-STD-488 GPIBand VXIbus (VMEbus Extensions for Instrumentation) standards for modular systems.Racal Instruments was one of the five founding members of the VXIbus Consortiumthat developed the VXIbus specification expressly to meet the requirementsof the test instrumentation industry. Today the company offers one of the largestselections of VXIbus hardware and software available from any supplier, aswell as a wide range of ANSI standard and platform-independent instrumentation.
  
• Engineering Strengths
  The backbone of Racal Instruments' success is the strength of its Engineeringresources. For more than forty years the company's engineers have set the pacein this technologically competitive world market. Racal Instruments is committedto engineering innovation and continues to apply high-technology solutionsto customer problems. Extensive engineering facilities are located in bothNorth America and Europe, staffed by dedicated specialists in digital, RF andanalog techniques with the support of a strong mechanical design group.