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Agilent Technologies
Announces Industry’s First Integrated
Verification Toolkit for Signal Integrity
Design
EDA Software Finds and Analyzes Jitter
Sources, Eliminates Costly Redesign
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2007 --
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today
announced the industry’s first integrated
verification toolkit for signal integrity
design. Intended for use with Agilent’s
industry-leading Advanced Design System
(ADS) EDA software platform, the new toolkit
identifies and analyzes sources of
performance-degrading jitter in
multi-Gigabit communication link designs. It
helps designers find and remove the causes
of jitter before hardware prototyping
begins, eliminating costly redesign later in
the development cycle.
“The recent signal integrity breakthroughs
we’ve made have expanded our RF and
microwave EDA technologies into high-speed
digital design,” said Joe Civello, product
marketing manager with Agilent’s EEsof EDA
division. For the first time, designers of
high data-rate interconnects and serial data
links can perform a comprehensive jitter
budget analysis to find and correct sources
of jitter as well as to quickly and
accurately predict Bit Error Ratio
performance -- all before committing the
design to fabrication and production.”
The Agilent Signal Integrity Verification
Toolkit contains patented technology used in
Agilent’s real-time sampling oscilloscopes
for accurate jitter characterization. ADS is
the first and only EDA tool in the industry
that provides diagnostic jitter analysis
tools integrated into a high-speed channel
design flow.
This latest release of Agilent’s ADS also
provides significant enhancements to its
serializer/deserializer, or SERDES, modeling
capability. The new library of SERDES
components available with ADS includes 8B10B
encoders/decoders; 64B66B encoders and
decoders with and without scrambling;
non-adaptive and adaptive feed forward and
decision feedback equalizers, using a wide
variety of tap optimization algorithms; and
a new digital signal source capable of
producing a de-emphasis waveform with random
and periodic jitter modulation and
transition wave shaping.
The Agilent ADS offers a complete set of
front-to-back simulation and layout tools as
well as instrument links for RF and
microwave IC design in a single, integrated
design flow. Today, it is the only EDA
software platform that can simulate a serial
link consisting of models for
frequency-domain interconnect, time-domain
driver/receiver, physical layout, SERDES,
compiled and scripted MATLAB-based
functions, System-C, Verilog-A, HDL, and
C++. The seamless signal flow across this
wide spectrum of simulation technology
allows designers to fully characterize a
high-speed serial link and accurately
determine BER and jitter performance.
To request an
evaluation of Agilent’s Verification Toolkit
for Signal Integrity, visit www.agilent.com/find/eesof-si-demo-software-request.
Additional
information about Agilent’s signal integrity
solution and all of Agilent’s EDA software
offerings is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof.
A
high-resolution image of the verification
toolkit for signal integrity is available at
www.agilent.com/find/SI_ADS_image.
U.S. Pricing
and Availability
The Agilent Signal Integrity Verification
Toolkit is available now and is included
with the ADS Signal Integrity Designer Pro
and Premier Suites. It also may be added to
other ADS configurations, with prices
starting at $7,000.
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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 19,000 employees
serve customers in more than 110 countries.
Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in
fiscal year 2006. Information about Agilent
is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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