Agilent Technologies’ industry-leading arbitrary waveform generator supported by National Instruments’ new LabVIEW instrument driver
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its N6030A arbitrary waveform generator, the industry’s highest-performing AWG, works with National Instruments’ new LabVIEW graphical programming environment. LabVIEW provides instrument control for Agilent’s AWG and reduces test program development by eliminating the need to learn text-based programming protocols. This allows users familiar with the LabVIEW environment to rapidly develop test waveforms for their designs.
The new LabVIEW driver supports standard N6030A AWG functions according to the Interchangeable Instruments Foundation (IVI) F-GEN specification. It also supports extensions to the IVI-C definition, so users can take advantage of N6030A’s advanced features, such as multi-AWG synchronization and sequencing.
The Agilent N6030A simultaneously delivers 1.25 GS/s and 15 bits of vertical resolution, giving engineers who design advanced wideband systems in radar, satellite and emerging communication systems the most realistic, wideband waveforms available.
“The performance of the N6030A, combined with the popularity of LabVIEW, is helping our customers easily develop complex waveforms for next-generation defense systems,” said John Stratton, marketing manager of Agilent’s Advanced Products Operation. “Using our AWG with LabVIEW provides easy integration into existing test environments to minimize software development.”
“National Instruments is excited to offer an NI LabVIEW instrument driver for Agilent’s new CompactPCI arbitrary waveform generator,” said Jason Hobbs, instrument driver group manager at National Instruments. “With the new instrument driver available in the NI Instrument Driver Network, we can provide Agilent customers with easy access to the open LabVIEW graphical development environment and expand our existing breadth of LabVIEW instrument drivers for third-party products.”
Further Information
Additional information about the Agilent N6030A is available at www.agilent.com/find/awg .
Images are available at www.agilent.com/find/awg_images .
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The Agilent N6030A arbitrary waveform generator is priced at $50,000 and is available now.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company’s 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com .
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