Electronic test equipment - Definition and Overview

Practical electronics engineering and assembly requires the use of many different kinds of electronic test equipment, from the very simple and inexpensive to complex and sophisticated.

List of electonic test equipment:

Measuring devices:

• Ammeter, e.g. Galvanometer (Measures current)
• Voltmeter (Measures voltage)
• Ohmmeter, e.g. Wheatstone bridge (Measures resistance)
• Capacitance meter (Measures capacitance)
• Multimeter (Measures all of the above)
• Oscilloscope (Measures all of the above as they change over time)
• Waveform analyzer (An oscilloscope specialized for television waveforms)
• Electrometer (Measures charge)
• Logic analyzer (Tests digital circuits)
• Spectrum analyzer
• RF probe
• Signal tracer

Signal-generating devices:

• Signal generator
• Frequency synthesiser
• Function generator
• Pulse generator
• Signal injector

Miscellaneous devices:

• Time-domain reflectometer (TDR)
• Network analyzer