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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has expanded its Infiniium
oscilloscope application portfolio with Ethernet 64b/66b protocol decoding and
triggering software. Agilent's Infiniium Series is the first and only
oscilloscope family to support 64b/66b triggering and protocol decoding.
Until now, the only available scope-based protocol solutions were
for buses such as I2C, SPI, CAN or 8b/10b-based decoding schemes, leaving
64b/66b developers manually decoding difficult designs. The Agilent
N8815A Ethernet 10Gbase-KR decode application decodes in real time,
enabling teams to develop higher-quality products more quickly.
Ethernet 64b/66b is used primarily in today's data networking and
transmissions technologies. FibreChannel, Ethernet, and Infiniband are just a
few of the technologies that benefit from 64b/66b's lower overhead. Agilent's
N8815A software is designed to benefit designers of the 10Gbase-KR and
40Gbase-KR technology defined as IEEE 802.3, which operates over backplane lanes.
The new application takes advantage of Infiniium's recently released multiple
serial decoding and searching, allowing designers to look at four lanes at
once.
Design and test teams in almost all electronics industries,
including the computer, communications, semiconductor, aerospace/defense,
automotive and wireless industries, continue to produce increasingly
sophisticated hardware designs. Oscilloscopes are the primary tool engineers
use to test and debug their designs, and they need increasingly broad measurement
capabilities to deliver robust products on time.
In addition to decoding 64b/66b signals, N8815A software also
properly identifies PRBS signals and their lengths. When designers want to
ensure they are truly passing a PRBS pattern of a certain length to their
signal, N8815A will allow them to ascertain the exact pattern length and
pattern they are running. The application also allows for forward error
correction.
The N8815A Ethernet 10Gbase-KR decode application is supported on
Agilent's Infiniium 90000 and 90000 X-Series oscilloscopes. The Infiniium
90000 X-Series oscilloscope family includes the fastest real-time
oscilloscopes with industry-leading, real-time bandwidth of 33 GHz. These new scopes
deliver the lowest noise and have the lowest jitter measurement floor in the
industry, ensuring superior measurement accuracy.
Additional Information
Additional information about the N8815A Ethernet 10Gbase-KR decode
application is available at www.agilent.com/find/10Gbase-KR.
Product images can be found at www.agilent.com/find/10Gbase-KR_images.
Additional information on Agilent's new Infiniium Series
oscilloscopes, ranging from 600 MHz to 32 GHz bandwidths, and the company's
complete line of oscilloscope applications is available at www.agilent.com/find/scopes.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The N8815A 10Gbase-KR triggering and decoding application is
available now for $3,500.
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.