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pulse INNOVATIONS & INNOVATORS Agilent scopes acquire capacitive touch screens and touch triggering A gilent has introduced a range of oscilloscopes spanning 200 MHz to 1.5 GHz in real-time bandwidth, that feature new modes of user-interaction with the instrument. The InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series comprises both digital-storage and mixed-signal oscilloscope (analogue plus logic input channels) variants and, with additional built-in instrument functions, are what Agilent terms “five-in-one” products. They also offer flexibility in terms of adaptability to changing measurement needs, and protection of the buyer’s investment: specifications are upgradable over most features and over the complete series – the majority of upgrades requiring a return to Agilent’s service centres. In this series, Agilent has extended the waveform update rate to a maximum of 1million per second: this will enable you to see a higher proportion of intermittent and infrequent events than ever before, the company claims. The instruments use Agilent’s established MegaZoom IV segmented memory architecture. Also new is the use of a capacitive touch screen with a 12-in. LCD display. This facilitates the touch-activated trigger system, InfiniiScan Zone touch-triggering, which, “makes triggering as easy as finding the signal of interest and drawing a box around it: if you can see a signal, you can trigger on it”. Other touch-screen features include an alphanumeric touchpad that replaces knob-based operation, and touch-based interaction for many other functions. You can also operate the instruments from the front panel or remotely from a PC or tablet. The function list that underpins the five-instruments-on-one-unit description include: oscilloscope, digital channels (MSO), protocol analysis, digital voltmeter and dual-channel WaveGen function/ arbitrary waveform generator. The 4000 X-Series also supports a wide range of optional applications: MIL-STD 1553 and ARINC 429; I2S; CAN/LIN; FlexRay; RS232/422/485/UART; I2C/ SPI; and USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, Full-Speed and LowSpeed triggering and analysis: this, Agilent says, is the first hardware-based USB trigger/decode oscilloscope solution. The Agilent uses a capacitive touch-screen to increase the range of functions directly controllable from the screen. InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series includes 200MHz, 350-MHz, 500-MHz, 1-GHz and 1.5GHz models. The standard configuration for all models includes 4 Mpts of memory and segmented memory. Configurations include two or four main channels plus 16 logic inputs; sampling rate is a standard 2.5 Gsamples/sec on all channels, or 5 Gsamples/sec interleaved. Pricing is from €4500 upwards. —by Graham Prophet Agilent Technologies, www.agilent.com/find/4000X-Series Freescale adds advanced quad-core powertrain microcontroller F reescale Semiconductor’s Qorivva MPC5777M multicore microcontroller is designed to provide the performance that will be needed by a new generation of engine management solutions, with more precise control of the complete engine combustion process. It provides three times the performance of Freescale’s Qorivva MPC5674F MCU, which the company says has highest official performance benchmark score in the industry. With smart on-chip partitioning, the MCU allows very fast switching between high-performance and low-power operations, reduc- ing the load on the vehicle electrical system. The MPC5777M is the newest Freescale SafeAssure functional safety solution and has been defined and developed to address the ISO 26262 standard, allowing functional safety technology and ASIL-D compliance to be included in this new generation of 8 EDN EUROPE | january 2013 www.edn-europe.com http://www.agilent.com/find/4000X-Series http://www.edn-europe.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of EDNE January 2013

Digi-Key
Cover
Contents
Agilent Technologies
Microchip
Embedded World 2013
Masthead
EDN.comment
Digi-Key
Pulse
Analog Devices
Use S-parameters to describe crosstalk
Rohde & Schwarz
IAN
Designing low-energy embedded systems from silicon to software
Baker’s Best
Analog Devices
Analog Devices
Conditioning techniques for real-world sensors
Design Ideas
Mechatronics in Design
Product roundup
Tales from the Cube

EDNE January 2013