Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 4 - 2008 - (Page 4)

Emerging Innovations • • Researchers ﬁnd key to greater DNA sequencing throughput Agilent takes oscilloscope probing to the extreme EMERGING INNOVATIONS Adapting Agilent’s in situ oligonucleotide synthesis technology to oligonucleotide library synthesis, a team of researchers from Agilent, Harvard Medical School, Virginia Commonwealth University, Stanford University and Codon Devices believes it has unlocked the door to signiﬁcantly faster and more cost-effective DNA sequencing. The researchers synthesized complex oligonucleotide probe mixtures, applying the mixtures to simultaneously capture and amplify approximately 10,000 human exons in a single reaction. They also demonstrated how this technique can be integrated with ultra-high-throughput sequencing for economical, high-quality targeted variation discovery. The team published the results of its ﬁndings in the online version of Nature Methods, describing how previous-generation DNA sequencing has been constrained by a lack of parallel “front end” methods to replace traditional polymerase chain reactions. Extreme temperatures, both hot and cold, have always posed a challenge to accurate oscilloscope measurements. Agilent’s new N5450A InﬁniiMax extension cables for the InﬁniiMax Series probing system and Agilent Inﬁniium oscilloscopes now provide the industry’s widest temperature range coverage: –55º C to +150º C. The solution is ideal for cellular, automotive electronics, storage device and consumer electronics equipment designers who must validate their designs’ functionality under extreme temperatures. The extension cables also provide testers with an extra probing distance of 92 cm and two different operational temperature ranges based on probe-head conﬁgurations. • Streamlining test system creation and deployment in aerospace and defense • Agilent introduces ﬁrst of its kind, single-platform Ethernet OAM test software New capabilities for the Agilent N2X multiservice test solution provide end-to-end Ethernet operations, administration and maintenance (E-OAM), eliminating one of the ﬁnal barriers to wide-scale adoption of Carrier Ethernet. This single-platform solution for protocol emulation and conformance testing will enable network equipment manufacturers and service providers to ensure their devices meet performance and scalability requirements, conform to new international standards and are capable of interoperating in large, multivendor networks. The solution also enables comprehensive testing of emerging Ethernet infrastructure technologies as well as the application services, such as Internet protocol television (IPTV), that operate over them. Aerospace and defense companies have long been hindered by inefﬁcient test system architectures that require every system connection and protocol conversion to be uniquely programmed. The result is a time-consuming change to every connected system element when only one element requires modiﬁcation. To solve this problem, the Agilent Virtual Rack platform decouples all system elements within a matrix-based architecture, resulting in an integrated system with components that are independent of speciﬁc interfaces or programming languages. System developers only need to deﬁne the endpoints — Virtual Rack handles all the required integration through its “storeroom” of thousands of hardware, software and ﬁrmware elements from numerous vendors. 4 Agilent Measurement Journal

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Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 4 - 2008 Delivering Confidence through Compliance with Standards Contents Emerging Innovations Trying Early Device Implementations at the IEEE 1588 PlugFest Achieving Greater Confidence in Measurement Accuracy through Consistency in Calibration Services Overcoming the Challenges of RFID Component Testing 3GPP LTE: Introducing Single- Carrier FDMA Ensuring Reliable Operation and Performance in Converged IP Networks Testing Storage Area Networks and Devices at 8.5-Gb/s Fibre Channel Rates Choosing an Appropriate Calibration Method for Vector Network Analysis Making Traceable EVM Measurements with Digital Oscilloscopes Exploring Terahertz Measurement, Imaging and Spectroscopy: The Electromagnetic Spectrum’s Final Frontier Interpreting Quoted Specifications when Selecting Digitizers

Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 4 - 2008

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