2023 Holiday Gift Guide

As the holiday calendar counts down, find the perfect present for everyone on your list — friend, family, or foe. Wondering what to get? Don’t fret!

For your bookworm bestie with a full library? Get all the info an avid reader craves without taking up any shelf space leveraging our vast eBook selection! From power electronics, to electric vehicles, to phased array antennas, the Keysight digital dossier will elevate any reader’s collection. #Shelf-esteem

For your intrusive in-laws? Give them the gift of knowledge by helping them learn the value of strong boundaries and data privacy with this delightful guide. #DataIsSacred

For your friendliest frenemy? Offer them our aerospace defense knowledge quiz to find out which of you will ultimately come out on top if your cold war ever heats up! #ConfidenceIsKey #PsychologicalWarfare

From saint to Scrooge, Keysight’s expert gift-givers have got you covered this holiday season. Now, let’s list!

Bernard Ang’s Recommendation

Is Pinterest setting the holiday bar too high? Clear the clutter and get back to basics with the Smart Bench Essentials Test Instruments. No need to exhaust yourself to impress acquaintances with an exorbitant holiday shindig when you can kick-back with friends and collaboratively share and analyze your best test data!

Mike Hodge’s Recommendation

If you want to unleash your inner Father Christmas, festive dad jokes will only get you so far. Instead, take a page out of my father's book and use a handheld digital multimeter to check strands of X-mas tree lights to find and fix any finicky flickers.

TJ Cartwright’s Recommendation

We all know the VXG-C signal generator does it all—delivers purer signals, ensures designs meet the latest standards, simplifies your test workflow... But did you know it was originally designed to keep hot toddies — ahem, “hot-chocolate”— toasty during holiday get-togethers?

Allison Freedman’s Recommendation

Want to ensure Santa makes it flawlessly to your house this year? Keysight EXata can create a realistic digital twin of Santa's flight path to your home, incorporating airports, traffic control, drones and possible Grinch attacks. It even simulates different weather conditions and potential hazards to help Santa be prepared for anything your hometown may bring. The result — a magical Christmas morning with your family!

Jenn Mullen’s Recommendation

Ladies! Are you tired of making the holidays magical for everyone else, but waking up to empty stockings? Be the hero you deserve and keep in-law drama and political discussions from ruining everyone’s holiday cheer when you gift yourself Keysight's X-Series Signal Analyzer and X-COM IQC5000B to block cell signals! Now, you can keep Uncle Bob off the internet during dinner and be truthful when you tell Great-Aunt Martha that cell service was awful when the call mysteriously "drops."

Ben Coffin’s Recommendation

Already bored with 5G? For the tech enthusiast in your life that always needs the latest gadgets and hottest innovations, get them the 6G Vector Component Analyzer solution! They’ll be testing sub-THz to their heart’s content — or who knows — maybe they’ll squeeze 10 GHz in between 14 – 24 GHz.

Gabi Duncan’s Recommendation

Need an early start on that New Year’s resolution to exercise, but don’t want to suffer in a crowded gym? Just get the 110 GHz UXR oscilloscope to squat and 67 GHz PNA-X network analyzer to deadlift in the privacy of your own lab — they are what peak performance looks like, after all.

Arturo Vargas’s Recommendation

If, like me, you are not good at giving gifts, I’ll share my secret recipe: give the gift of time. Whatever helps me get my work done faster so I can have more time with my family is the perfect gift. If I’m testing, BenchVue software automates, integrates, and controls instruments for me so I can save time, get done faster, and go enjoy life this season, and all year long.

Gobinath Tamil-Vanan’s Recommendation

Introducing the Keysight PZ2100 High-Channel Density Precision SMU, the ultimate Christmas gift for that special someone who's always dreamed of measuring their holiday spirit with precision! Forget about ugly sweaters or generic socks; this state-of-the-art Source Measure Unit (SMU) will ensure they never miss a jingle bell's voltage or a gingerbread resistor's resistance. With its sleek design and cutting-edge technology, they can finally answer the age-old question: how many ohms does it take to power Santa's sleigh? Plus, the SMU comes with a festive red ribbon, so it's ready to be unwrapped and admired by anyone who truly appreciates the oh-so-necessary intersection of electronics and holiday cheer. Who needs sugarplum fairies when you can have accurate current measurements dancing in your head?

Jen Stark’s Recommendation

With wild, wide bandwidth Christmas parties more widespread than ever before, how will the conscientious condo dweller control the chaos? Check out our latest PXA signal analyzer — now with a frequency coverage option to 55 GHz! Analyze wide bandwidth party signals using real-time signal analysis (RTSA) up to 2 GHz to ensure everything goes smoothly! Plus, 4U high form factor makes it an ideal fit for a limited festivity footprint.

VSA Team’s Recommendation

If you’re a minimalist in the market for festive furnishings, but not the post-Christmas clean-up, then look no further than Keysight Pathwave VSA! Design whatever decorations your heart desires using custom measurement data. No need to take up any square-footage or storage space when your seasonal stuffs appear on a screen!

David Ballo’s Recommendation

Are you an electric-vehicle enthusiast who misses the hot-rod glory days of the past—when you could spend countless hours tweaking the engine and drive train of your favorite ICE car for maximum torque and horsepower? Who says you can’t have the same fun with today’s EVs! With Keysight’s ScienLab Regenerative DC Emulator, you can test all sorts of smokin’ mods, like rewiring your battery from 400 to 800 volts, adding a ludicrous mode to your battery-management system, or adding a few drive motors here and there. The possibilities are (not) exhaustive!

Brian Whitaker’s Recommendation

Ho-ho-hold the charge! Are your gadgets feeling a bit Grinch-like this holiday season, with their batteries draining faster than a snowman in July? Fear not! Santa's little helpers at Keysight have just the magic to keep your tech merry and bright. Learn about Keysight's solution for analyzing current drain using battery profiling and emulation — it's like a Christmas miracle for your electronics! This holiday, let's deck the halls with boughs of holly and your gadgets with the gift of endless energy. Say goodbye to battery bah humbugs and hello to holiday cheer with Keysight!

Richard Duvall’s Recommendation

With New Year’s around the corner, you might think it’s time to break that procrastination habit. But with PathWave Test Automation, you don’t have to! Automate, accelerate, and scale across your test workflow. With all the time you save, you can sit back, relax, and spend time with the family…of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

Minna Siurua’s Recommendation

Unwrap the gift of seamless technology this holiday season! Keysight’s Nemo Handy, perfect for walk testing and even drone measurements, is like Santa's little helper for your mobile network. With the precision of Rudolph's nose, it provides all the essential key performance indicators (KPIs) and full measurement functionality, helping you pinpoint the root cause of any mobile network issues across multiple dimensions.

And the holiday magic doesn't stop there! Thanks to the enchanting 3D Visualizer, an add-on integrated into our Nemo Analyze post-processing solution, you can now visualize the results and 5G beams in a 3D wonderland. It's like Santa's workshop for tech enthusiasts, making your measurements not only accurate but visually stunning!

Kelly Loula’s Recommendation

Shred the slopes, rule the rinks, and conquer the spectrum with FieldFox! This season, arm your tech-savvy friend with a handheld spectrum analyzer, built with MIL-spec grade toughness and always ready for a snowball fight. Who says winter sports and tech can't go hand in hand? Sleigh rides, snowball fights, and spectrum insights – make winter unforgettable with FieldFox!

Lorie Jurkovich’s Recommendation

A holiday movie marathon is a must! And what better way to test your own home theater setup than by echoing the House of Mouse? Snag a ~ vintage ~ Model 200A Audio Oscillator and make your home theater as magnificent as the Magical Kingdom.

Cherisa Kmetovicz’s Recommendation

Some elves make toys. Some elves decorate trees. But Keysight’s Aerospace and Defense Custom Solutions elves are very special, you’ll see. One-size-fits-all products and legacy processes can easily fall short of emerging requirements, particularly when it comes to complex measurements. Our specialized team of expert systems engineering elves can help translate your unique requirements into a custom-tailored solution. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) gifts are great, but if you need a more custom “fit”, like an integrated satellite payload test system (PTS) or phased array fast calibration and compact antenna range (CATR) solution, then reach out to Santa’s tech-savviest elves.

And we mustn’t forget, all the little children who are not quite “naughty”, and not quite “nice”, but “doing the best they can”. Santa relies on PROPSIM satellite channel emulation and simulation to ensure any last-minute communications get to him whilst he is en-route without excessive Doppler shift distortion. The PROPSIM Satellite and Aerospace Channel Emulation Toolset allows Santa to create realistic, real-time propagation environments. He can also create high-velocity test environments found in low Earth orbits (LEO) in the lab that meet requirements for the highest levels of Doppler, fading, delay, and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN); with accurate, realistic, and repeatable test conditions.

‘Tis the Season

We hope this inspired—we listed our best list. Now, straight from our own Heather Richardson, we’ll leave you with this:

“Twas the night before Christmas when all through the lab

Not a creature was measuring,

Not even the fab

The engineers all rested, snug in their dreams,

And visions of traces danced on their screens;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

In hopes to be stuffed with Keysight's best ware!”

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