Design Engineers Develop Serial I/O with Agilent PCI Express Tools

9/17/2003 - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) demonstrated industry-first PCI ExpressTM products that will help engineers and lab managers reduce time to market for high-speed serial bus products that are based on the new PCI Express standard. Agilent's latest additions to the industry's most advanced and comprehensive range of PCI Express test, validation and management products increase test coverage, decrease validation time and protect customer investment.

PCI Express is a new high-speed serial I/O bus that uses point-to-point signaling and a fully packetized protocol to offer design engineers in the computing and communications industries a scalable and extensible architecture with up to 32 selectable lane widths handling high-bandwidth frequencies. The products offer the best coverage for all layers, from physical to protocol test equipment, and provide optimized features and functionalities for the various PCI Express environments and applications.

Agilent's new PCI Express products at IDF, booths No. 219 and 441, include the following:

  • the Agilent test suite, which helps accelerate the development of PCI Express technology for next-generation computing and communication platforms. The Agilent E2969A protocol test card allows R&D, quality assurance and design engineers to conduct basic compliance tests to develop next-generation communication platforms, computers, add-in cards and components based on the Intel PCI Express product development kit.
  • the Agilent E2941A mid-bus probe, which increases the flexibility for the E2960A protocol analyzer and simplifies the validation of high-speed digital designs. Agilent's offering is the only one on the market with a consistent mid-bus probing solution that includes soft touch technology on both logic and protocol analyzer. Further information is available in the press release at www.agilent.com/find/mid-bus-probe.
  • the Agilent N4228A half-size mid-bus connector, based on Agilent's soft touch technology, which enables customers with restricted board space to debug chip-to-chip PCI Express links. Information on Agilent's logic analyzers, the N4220A packet analysis probe, and debug support for x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16 is available at www.agilent.com/find/pci_Express.
  • the Agilent E2960 protocol analyzer and exerciser, based on the serial protocol tester XC, which supports the industry's move from parallel to serial I/O busses. The E2960A PCI Express test series offers a universal hardware approach with duplex speeds of x8, x4 and x1 bandwidth, protecting customer investment.
  • Agilent's industry-first integrated remote management KVM solutions, which allow administrators seamless remote control from any location, help reduce both unplanned server downtime and total cost of ownership of PCI Express systems. The new Agilent embedded KVM 1.0 solutions minimize project complexity and allow a choice of form factors for motherboard integration. Further information is available in the press release at www.agilent.com/find/rmd_release.
  • the new E2688A serial data analysis option for the Agilent 54850 Series Infiniium scopes, which enables real-time eye mask tests for PCI Express standards with clock recovery. The E2681A jitter analysis software for real-time jitter measurements complements the serial data analysis option. Both serial data analysis and jitter analysis options can be used to debug high-speed serial data traffic.

In addition to offering the most comprehensive PCI Express tool suite available today, Agilent provides a broad line of test tools for full system validation, including testing of high-speed serial links, PCI-X 2.0 and DDR memory solutions (from FuturePlus Systems), as well as remote management and keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) solutions that reduce unplanned downtime of servers.

"Agilent's commitment to PCI Express implementation is demonstrated by our continuous, innovative product development and the introduction of nine new products brought to the market in the past 12 months," said Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Digital Verifications Solutions Division. "This enables our customers to stay at the forefront of PCI Express market developments and technology innovation."

"Industry support for PCI Express technology will accelerate the development of enterprise systems and adapters enabled by the serial I/O technology," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing, Intel Enterprise Platform Group. "Development of test, management and validation tools, such as those from Agilent, is an important step in garnering the full benefits of PCI Express technology."

More information on all of these products is available at www.agilent.com/find/pci_Express. Additional information about Agilent at IDF is available in an online media kit at www.agilent.com/find/idf03press.

About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, chemical analysis and life sciences. The company's 30,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6 billion in fiscal year 2002. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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