Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 3 - 2007 - (Page 6)

Emerging Innovations • • Greater measurement throughput with Acqiris digitizer Extended simulation coverage for 3GPP LTE Wireless Library Agilent introduced the Acqiris DP1400 high-speed digitizer, the ﬁrst release under the Acqiris brand, which Agilent acquired in November 2006. The compact DP1400’s highly integrated components are designed for very low, 15-watt power consumption, while the standard short PCI card format features a simultaneous multibuffer acquisition and readout (SAR) mode that improves measurement throughput. The 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Wireless Library has been updated with extended simulation coverage and improved uplink receiver capabilities, helping designers keep pace with the developing 3GPP LTE standard. With new uplink receiver models and improved uplink/downlink source models, this major update will help wireless system designers and veriﬁcation engineers more quickly develop 3GPP LTE designs for next-generation mobile communications equipment. The wireless library works within the Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software using the Agilent Ptolemy simulator to provide preconﬁgured simulation setups with signal sources for downlink and uplink, as well as transmitter analyses including spectrum, complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) and waveform measurements. EMERGING INNOVATIONS Usable in all standard PCI bus slots, the digitizer performs in a variety of application environments including semiconductor component, hard disk drive production and industrial nondestructive testing. The eight-bit, dual-channel DP1400 features an analog front-end mezzanine with signal conditioning and high-speed analog-to-digital components. • Pioneering Fibre Channel test module Agilent released an industry ﬁrst in its dual-purpose SAN tester and protocol analyzer for 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC). The 1736 Series Fibre Channel test module assists storage equipment manufacturers by providing realistic tests early in the development and qualiﬁcation cycle, ensuring that the device under test (DUT) meets strict data-storage requirements. It also serves as a protocol analyzer, helping users identify protocol and performance issues. The new module supports a full line rate of 8 Gb/s as well as 4 Gb/s, 2 Gb/s and 1 Gb/s, allowing users to fully test all supported Fibre Channel line rates with a single module. Other capabilities include error-injection features and a ﬂow-control stress test that validates ASIC designs early on and increases test coverage. • Metabolite ID software for biological analysis Adding to the MassHunter Workstation software suite, the MassHunter Metabolite ID software system assists researchers studying modiﬁcations that pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals undergo in biological systems. Features of the metabolite identiﬁcation system include an easy-to-use interface; integrated acquisition through reporting workﬂow; a combination of multiple algorithms to increase identiﬁcation conﬁdence; a sample/control comparison based on Agilent’s molecular feature extraction (MFE) algorithm; a new molecular formula generation (MFG) algorithm using both MS and MS/MS accurate mass information; a customizable mass defect ﬁlter (MDF) to locate metabolites more selectively; and conﬁrmation of metabolites via MS/MS spectral correlation using the Novatia Autoshift algorithm. 6 Agilent Measurement Journal

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Applying Ingenuity to the Measurement of Emerging Technologies Contents Emerging Innovations Department Delivering Bigger Benefits by Optimizing Customer Workflows Measuring Material Properties at the Nanoscale Utilizing In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy in Life Science, Pharmaceutical and other Bio-Related Applications WiMAX™: Plotting a New Path to Global Mobility Addressing the Triple Complexity of Triple-Play Networks What Next for Mobile Telephony? Exploring the Inner Workings of Tire-Pressure Monitoring Systems Developing, Assessing and Applying a High-Resolution Thin-Film Magnetic Probe Making Accurate Settling-Time Measurements Using a Vector Network Analyzer Applying Metabolomics Methods to the Study of Bacterial Leaf Blight in Rice Plants Measuring Stream Dynamics with Fiber Optics survey

Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 3 - 2007

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