Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry-First PCI Express(r) Jammer, Jitter Tolerance Test for Clock Devices, Million-Bit-Per-Minute Channel Simulator at DesignCon 2009

Eleven Agilent Seminars to Help Computer and Consumer Component Vendors Stay Competitive in Signal Integrity, High-Speed Digital Design and Test.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., DesignCon 2009, Booth 305.-Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today at DesignCon will demonstrate the industry’s first PCI Express Jammer, a jitter-tolerance test for embedded and forwarded clock devices, a million-bit-per-minute channel simulator, and a new powerful signal integrity toolset. Also on display include solutions for high-performance probing, high-speed interconnect analysis/simulation, FPGA debug for front-side CPU buses, FBD/DDR memory, Serial-ATA, USB, HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel.

In addition, Agilent will host 11 presentations and forums to help computer and consumer component vendors stay competitive in signal integrity, high-speed digital design and test.

“Agilent partners with computer and communication-component manufacturers to help them be well positioned in the market throughout the business cycle,” said Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Digital Test Division. “By driving the development of innovative technology applications, we help them quickly launch products that address market needs. By continuing to invest in and innovate on manufacturers’ latest technologies, we prepare them to have the right products at the right time, when consumers are ready to spend again.”

Agilent’s New Test Solutions on Display

* Agilent J-BERT N4903B high-performance serial BERT offers the only complete jitter-tolerance testing for embedded and forwarded clock devices. R&D and test engineers who validate and test compliance of high-speed serial computer and video bus and communication devices up to 12.5 Gb/s can accurately characterize and test compliance of next-generation multi-gigabit serial bus devices such as PCI Express 2.0, USB 3, QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), Hypertransport 3, fully buffered DIMM 2 (FB-DIMM 2) and more. Additional information is available at www.agilent.com/find/jbert. The press release is available at www.agilent.com/find/jbert_pr.
* The industry’s first PCI Express Jammer, the N5323A with inline error injection, provides design and test engineers of semiconductor and equipment manufactures with unprecedented ability to perform disruptive test of PCI Express devices in live systems, regardless of operating system and application type. This breakthrough concept for PCI Express testing is the only tool of its type in the industry and allows developers of computing, communcations, aerospace, storage and consumer equipment to shorten test cycles and improve time to market. Additional information is available at www.agilent.com/find/pciejammer. The press release is available at www.agilent.com/find/pciejammer_pr.
* Million-bit-per-minute channel simulation with fast eye measurement is available with Agilent’s new Channel Simulator technology. It is capable of simulating multigigabit/s chip-to-chip data links with simulation throughputs of more than a million bits per minute. The simulator allows signal-integrity engineers to interactively produce eye measurements -- and optimize transmit and receive equalization -- in serial links such as PCI Express, USB 3.0, and 10 gigabit Ethernet. Agilent will offer the Channel Simulator as part of the E8885 Convolution Simulator and its successor, the new W2302 Transient Convolution Element in Agilent’s Advanced Design System EDA software. Additional information is available at www.agilent.com/find/signal-integrity.
* Agilent’s W2500 ADS Transient Convolution GT accelerates signal integrity transient simulations on workstations that have NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)-based GPUs. This combination allows signal-integrity designers to run these simulations four to six times faster than on a workstation with a regular CPU. The W2500 Transient Convolution GT Element supports NVIDIA hardware, including Tesla C1060 Computing Processor and Tesla S1070 Computing System. ADS Transient Convolution GT is generally available from mid-February, with pricing starting at $10,000.
* Agilent’s PLTS version 5.0 software and advanced calibration option create a powerful signal integrity toolset for high-speed digital designers performing interconnect design, test and verification. The N1930B-5TP option is a suite of three industry-first advanced calibration wizards that optimize the design of high-speed connectors, cables, backplanes and printed circuit boards. New features range from a probe calibration wizard and batch file converter to a DC point input for low-frequency accuracy. Additional information is available at www.agilent.com/find/plts.