Agilent Technologies’ Test & Measurement products selected for EDN magazine’s “100 Hot Products of 2004”
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that its VEE Pro 7.0 software, Infiniium DSO80000 Series of 10-, 12- and 13-GHz real-time oscilloscopes, and FPGA dynamic probe have been selected as three of EDN magazine’s “Hot 100 Products of 2004.” According to EDN, of the thousands of products manufacturers announce each year, “only about 100 make our readers really sit up and take notice.” These products represent significant advances in technology or its application, and a decided innovation in design. Product descriptions are available on EDN’s Web site at www.edn.com.
“We are honored to receive this prestigious recognition from an industry-leading trade magazine like EDN,” said Mike Gasparian, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Multi-Industry Business Unit. “This confirms our commitment to providing engineers with open, accurate and repeatable test platforms and software development environments that not only meet their needs today but are built for addressing future technologies.”
Agilent’s Visual Engineering Environment (VEE) Pro 7.0 is an intuitive graphical programming environment that helps speed development of measurement, test and control applications in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace and defense, wireless and consumer electronics. New features in version 7.0 enhance VEE Pro’s ease-of-use as well as its connectivity to instruments with PC-standard LAN and USB interfaces. VEE Pro 7.0 also provides built-in access to the standard Microsoft(r) .NET Framework, giving users the ability to immediately communicate with other applications and use hundreds of Windows(r) system functions.
The DSO80000 Series oscilloscopes are the first to surpass the double-digit bandwidth barrier, offering engineers who design RF and wireless products, high-speed serial buses and other ultra-high-speed electronics an unmatched level of performance. Previously, designers were limited by oscilloscopes with a maximum real-time analog bandwidth of 7 to 8 GHz. The 13 GHz real-time bandwidth of the DSO81304A offers more than a 50-percent performance improvement versus previous products. This translates into higher signal fidelity, more accurate and repeatable measurements and improved test margins for high-speed electronic designers.
Agilent’s FPGA (field programmable gate array) dynamic probe is the industry’s first commercially available dynamic probe application for logic analyzer-based debug of Xilinx FPGAs. The new logic analysis application interacts with an on-chip virtual probing technology to enable logic analyzers to measure up to 64 internal FPGA signals for each debug pin compared to traditional logic analyzers, which measure a single internal FPGA signal for each debug pin.
“Of all of the logic-analysis products that Agilent announced in 2004, the B4655A dynamic probe logic analysis application appears to hold the greatest promise of revolutionizing the way engineers work,” says Dan Strassberg, EDN technical editor. “The product allows engineers to embed logic-analysis probes within designs implemented in Xilinx FPGAs. They can dynamically switch each probe among as many as 64 internal probe points, enabling an FPGA design that allocates, say, five pins to probing to reveal the activity at 320 internal nodes.”
Further Information
- Additional information about Agilent’s VEE Pro 7.0 is available at www.agilent.com/find/vee .
- Additional information about Agilent’s Infiniium 80000 Series of 10-, 12- and 13-GHz real-time oscilloscopes, InfiniiMax II probing systems and the company’s complete line of validation and debug tools is available at www.agilent.com/find/infiniimax2 .
- Additional information about Agilent’s FPGA dynamic probe is available at www.agilent.com/find/fpga .
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global 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 .
