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U4612A Protocol Jammer for USB 3.0 |
Agilent
Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the industry's fastest and deepest
USB 3.0/2.0 protocol analyzer and the industry's only USB 3.0 jammer.
The new
USB 3.0/2.0 analyzers combine the industry's deepest trace buffers - up to 18
GB - with its most powerful triggering engine. The new USB 3.0 jammer uses this
same triggering engine, making it possible for engineers to precisely inject
specific errors into the system under test.
These
combined capabilities allow engineers to push USB designs to their limits - and
beyond - so they can validate and troubleshoot their designs more quickly and
with higher confidence.
Agilent's
recent purchase of the USB technology of SerialTek, LLC, enabled the company's
rapid development of these products. The purchase included SerialTek's USB
BusXpert and USB BusMod products and related technology. Privately held
SerialTek is based in San Jose, Calif. Terms of the purchase were not
disclosed.
"SerialTek's
cutting-edge technology provides Agilent an immediate, competitive entry into
the USB protocol market," said Ross Nelson, general manager of Agilent's
Digital Debug Solutions product line. "By introducing the industry's
highest-performance USB protocol analyzer and jammer, we are helping our
customers continue to innovate in this important market. Our customers can
expect to see a continuous series of enhancements over time, leveraging
Agilent's existing core technology."
One of
the challenges facing designers of today's USB devices and systems is the
widely disparate time scales of various types of USB traffic. A single USB
3.0/2.0 link may contain concurrent traffic from a relatively slow device such
as a keyboard or mouse and a high-speed bulk-storage transfer to a
high-performance solid-state drive. This range of time scales, from
milliseconds or seconds on the mouse down to sub-nanoseconds on the solid-state
drive, makes it critical for engineers to have test instruments that offer a
combination of deep trace memory and complex triggering.
The
Agilent U4611A USB analyzer can be configured with trace buffers up to 9 GB,
and the U4611B analyzer comes standard with 18-GB buffers. A comprehensive set
of integrated trace views and intuitive navigation allows quick and efficient
analysis, while the highest-performance host interfaces in the industry make it
easy for users to save their ultra-deep traces.
The
analyzers and jammer are equipped with state-of-the-art triggering
capabilities, including four concurrent sequencers of 26 states each, multiway
branching and looping, and 32 counters and timers. Deep trace buffers,
industry-leading triggering capabilities and the ability to precisely inject
errors into the system under test ensure engineers can fix the most complex,
hard-to-find bugs.
The
introduction of the U4611A/B analyzers and U4612A jammer fills out Agilent's
comprehensive portfolio of USB products, giving Agilent the most complete debug
and compliance portfolio for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.
"As
USB 3.0 technology adoption continues to accelerate, Agilent's industry-leading
physical-layer test tools have helped customers get certified products to
market faster," said Jim Choate, Agilent's USB program manager. "With
full protocol analysis capabilities and the ability to link into our existing
test tools, the U4611 product line enables developers to quickly link
system-wide events to specific USB physical-layer events."
The
U4611A/B analyzers and U4612A jammer, along with Agilent's complete USB 3.0
test solution including transmitter and receiver test, will be featured at the
Intel Developer's Conference (Booth 854), Sept. 13-15 in San Francisco, and at
the USB-IF Workshop, Sept. 20-23in Taipei, Taiwan.
Additional
information on Agilent's USB protocol solutions is available at www.agilent.com/find/usb-protocol.
Information
on the company's complete line of protocol analyzers is available at www.agilent.com/find/protocol.
Information on Agilent's USB test solutions can be found at www.agilent.com/find/USB. A backgrounder on
USB technology is available at www.agilent.com/find/usb_backgrounder.
U.S. Pricing and
Availability
The new
Agilent U4611A protocol analyzer can be ordered today with a starting price of
$6,950. The U4611B analyzer has a starting price of $17,950, and the U4612A USB
3.0 jammer is priced at $20,950. Shipments will begin in October.
Agilent's Digital Test Standards
Program
Agilent
Digital Test Standards Program experts are involved in various international
standards committees, including the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council, PCI-SIG, Video Electronics Standards Association, Serial ATA International Organization, Serial
Attached SCSI (T10), USB-Implementers Forum, MIPI Alliance, Ethernet standards (IEEE 802.3), Optical Internetworking Forum and many others. Agilent's involvement in these
standards groups enables the company to bring the right solutions to market
when customers need them.
About Agilent
Technologies
Agilent
Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a
technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and
communications. The company's 18,500 employees serve customers in more than 100
countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2010. Information
about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.