Acroname Blog
Selecting a Sensor Technology
Post date: 7 years 2 weeks ago
How to Choose the Right Sensor Technology
Advances in LiDAR and sensor technology are driving size and cost of sensors down rapidly, while improving performance dramatically.
The Acroname team has put together this short guide to help make some sense of the technologies available today:
Laser...
Is your USB Hub reliable?
Post date: 7 years 3 months ago
At Acroname, we take ESD seriously.
We recently partnered with the team at Pragma Design (https://pragma-design.com), a leader in ESD analysis and solutions, to improve ESD event handling of the USBHub3+ 8-port Programmable USB 3.0 Hub.
Pragma Design's advanced current reconstruction...
Acroname Wins Vision Systems Design 2017 Innovators Award
Post date: 7 years 4 months ago
It's great when customers find your products useful. It's fantastic and humbling when your product is recognized by the industry as innovative.
Vision Systems Design Magazine's Innovator's Award program recognizes innovative technologies, products and systems in the vision and image processing...
Getting Started with MTM Instrumentation
Post date: 7 years 4 months ago
Test engineers face many challenges today. Implementing a functional test plan involves integration of several different measurement and interface tools, software packages and licenses. Acroname's MTM instrumentation takes the frustration out of this process as one of the simplest and easiest...
Making wireless test fixtures actually wireless
Post date: 7 years 8 months ago
Create and Deploy Wireless Test Fixtures
One of the benefits of using Acroname's BrainStem/MTM series modules in functional circuit test is being able to create and deploy "wireless" test fixtures - a fixture with no wire-wraps or cables. The small form-factor and low power of MTM modules can be...
Electronic Design review of USBHub3+
Post date: 7 years 8 months ago
The editors at Electronic Design had never seen a programmable USB hub before, so we sent one of the Acroname USBHub3+ units to them for evaluation. The team at ED mentioned how simple USBHub3+ is to use and particularly how it would enhance USB product testing or manufacturing environments...
"Simply the best USB 3.0 hub on the market."
Post date: 7 years 9 months ago
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Acroname Testimonial for the Best USB 3 Hub
Come take a look at what customers are saying about Acroname's USBHub3+. We are excited to share this 5-star review of USBHub3+ on Amazon, written by an Acroname customer who was looking for a high-reliability USB 3.0 hub for their medical...
LightWare LW20 LiDAR - half the size, twice the performance, infinitely better.
Post date: 7 years 11 months ago
Announcing Brand New Lightware Laser Sensors
The LW20, with an IP67 enclosure, and the open-frame SF20 are now available for pre-order in our webstore.
High performance in a very small form factor
The LW20 and SF20 miniature laser rangefinders offer high performance in a very small...
BrainStem LabVIEW API
Post date: 7 years 12 months ago
The long awaited BrainStem LabVIEW API is finally here!
Well, kind of...
Currently, the API has only been completed for the USBHub2x4 and the USBHub3P+. However, the framework has been laid for all BrainStem devices and USB hubs, and we will soon announce when that has been completed as well...
Acroname Announces World's First Programmable USB 3.0 Hub
Post date: 8 years 1 week ago
September 07, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acroname, a leading producer of embedded automation and manufacturing test platforms, has announced the launch of the USBHub3+, an 8-port programmable USB 3.0 hub which is optimized for manufacturing and...
The ScratchPad
Post date: 8 years 1 month ago
What is the ScratchPad?
The BrainStem scratchpad is a shared memory on a brainstem module which is accessible from both the host and Reflex code. It serves as a simple interprocess communication channel for separate Reflex routines, as well as a communication channel between the host and reflex...
Resetting IP Address of Hokuyo UST-10LX and UST-20LX Sensors
Post date: 8 years 2 months ago
Hokuyo Factory Reset Procedure
A few customers have mentioned that, when trying to reset the Hokuyo UST-10LX or UST-20LX sensors to the factory default IP address, the reset procedure found in the product specification may not reset the IP address properly.
Per the UST-20LX Product Specification...