Agilent has unveiled a powerful new version of the Agilent EEsof EDA Advanced Design System software, ADS2014. It has been designed to improve design productivity and efficiency with new technologies and capabilities. The software provides users with new technologies, new capabilities and continued enhancements for silicon RFIC, MMIC, RF printed circuit board, and multi-technology RF module design.

Agilent Technologies’ BenchVue is an intuitive, easy-to-use software for the PC that provides multiple-instrument measurement visibility and data capture with no programming necessary. Enabling easy viewing, capturing and exporting of measurement data and screen shots, this no-cost software greatly accelerates testing for engineers and technicians in design and validation.

Agilent Technologies and FIME, an advanced secure-chip testing provider, have announced an agreement to work together to deliver pioneering testing solutions to the payments and telecommunications markets. The advancement of innovative tools to test and certify secure-chip mobile payment technology will be a key priority for the two organisations.

Agilent Technologies has enhanced its N7609B Signal Studio for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) software. The software now includes real-time simulation of SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems), such as WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, GAGAN and QZSS (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System for Japan). It also has the ability to add up to four CW interference signals inside the GPS, GLONASS or BeiDou bands for jamming tests.

The Controlled Impedance Line Designer in ADS enables signal integrity engineers to do pre-layout controlled impedance line design by optimizing the substrate stack up and the transmission line geometry. It allows designers to do it in the context of an end-to-end system simulation and to drive the optimization using metrics that matter, in particular, the post-equalization eye height and eye width. This video shows a short demo of what can be do...

Agilent Technologies has introduced the E5063A PCB Analyser for printed circuit board impedance test in manufacturing. The solution offers technology breakthroughs in accuracy and repeatability and reproducibility (R&R). The analyser also provides a dedicated user interface with broader language support, and more robustness against electrostatic discharge for PCB manufacturing environments.

Agilent Technologies has unveiled the newest version of its Command Expert software for faster and easier instrument control in many test application development environments. This release includes support for Python, a common development environment for engineers. It also includes updates to the newest versions of the other development environments, along with continuing software enhancements.

SSIC and CSI-3 support has been introduced to Agilent Technologies' U4431A MIPI M-PHY protocol analyser for next-generation mobile computing applications. This support gives engineers in R&D and manufacturing deep insight into their MIPI M-PHY-based designs. CSI-3 (Camera Serial Interface) leverages the CSI-2 protocol of the D-PHY physical layer to the higher-performance M-PHY.

Agilent Technologies has introduced the N1055A 35/50GHz (8ps) time-domain reflectometry and transmission module for the Agilent 86100D DCA-X platform. The module provides fast, accurate impedance and S-parameter measurements on high-speed designs that have up to 16 ports. On next-generation digital communication systems such as IEEE 802.3ba/bj/bm (40-Gb/100-Gb Ethernet), engineers face significant challenges, such as assessing crosstalk across ma...

The future of time-domain reflectometry / time-domain transmissometry is here! Learn more about Agilent's time domain reflectometry and transmission solution.

Agilent Technologies has added two new models to its U8480 Series USB thermocouple power sensors. The new models have improved specifications, including an expanded frequency range to 67GHz and a measurement speed of 900 readings/second. The U8480 Series’ real-time measurement uncertainty feature significantly reduces overall test time by removing the need for time-consuming manual measurement uncertainty (MU) calculations

Agilent Technologies has introduced the M8000 Series BER test solution, an integrated and scalable bit error ratio test solution for physical-layer characterisation, validation and compliance testing for receivers used in multigigabit digital designs. With support for a wide range of data rates and standards, the new solution provides accurate and reliable results that accelerate insight into the performance margins of high-speed digital devices ...

Agilent Technologies’ E7515A UXM wireless test set provides a broad range of capabilities that enable testing of the newest wireless device designs, delivering LTE-Advanced category 6 now and handling increasingly complex test cases in the future. It is developed for functional and RF design validation in the 4G era and beyond.

See how the capacitive touch screen and innovative InfiniiScan Zone touch triggering capability on the Agilent InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes can make even the most complex triggering as simple as touching an anomaly on screen.

Agilent Technologies has introduced a debugging tool that helps DDR memory designers perform precompliance tests, discover the root cause of compliance failures, and maximize design margins. The tool allows designers to easily navigate to areas of interest for further analysis and collect and analyse statistical data.

This video shows you how to save all available trace data to a USB flash drive in an easily accessible format on an Agilent InfiniiVision X-Series oscilloscope.

With the DSOX4USBSQ signal quality test option licensed on an InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscope, you can now quickly verify the analogue quality of your signals generated by USB hubs, hosts, and devices based on USB-IF compliance standards.

This video uses an Agilent InfiniiVision X-Series oscilloscope to demonstarte how to measure the area under the curve on an oscilloscope. This integration method will work on any oscilloscope that has an integrated maths function and, ideally, cursors that can be applied to the maths function. The X-values of the cursors represent the limits of integration, while delta-Y is the area under the curve.

The HDMI 2.0 specification is offering a significant increase in bandwidth – up to 18 Gbps – to support new features, better resolution and up to 32 audio channels for manufacturers of televisions, computers and set-top boxes. This has prompted Agilent Technologies to introduce two compliance test software packages for physical-layer testing of such devices

Keysight Technologies, the electronic measurement spin-off from Agilent Technologies will become a separate company in November this year. Keysight will officially come into existence from August 1 this year. It will trade as a subsidiary of Agilent for one quarter in order to demonstrate a quarter of earnings for the New York Stock Exchange.