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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 May 2007
Automotive accord links design and test
Agilent Technologies has formed a strategic partnership with Mentor Graphics, licensing certain products from the Mentor Graphics Volcano product line.
Agilent Technologies has formed a strategic partnership with Mentor Graphics, licensing certain products from the Mentor Graphics Volcano product line The Agilent LIN Tester, derived from Mentor's Volcano LIN Spector product, and the Agilent Vehicle Protocol Tester Series 500, derived from Mentor's Volcano Tellus product, help automotive engineers develop electronic products faster and under budget while meeting quality requirements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The strategic partnership allows Agilent to provide a more complete solution for automotive customers.
Agilent now provides test and validation tools beyond the physical layer up to the protocol layer, addressing the increasing complexity of the vehicle network topology and the need for higher network bandwidth and higher reliability.
The Mentor Graphics workflow allows an engineer to design a vehicle network to correctness by capturing and validating high-level requirements in the early design phase, then automate the generation of the communication matrix.
This enables a predictable and guaranteed datacommunications implemented by embedded software.
And customers using the Mentor Graphics vehicle network design tools with the Agilent Tester will get immediate validation results.
"Mentor Graphics' extensive vehicle protocol analysis and node emulation products complement Agilent's leading physical layer test tools", said Roland Jeutter, Automotive Business Manager at Agilent Technologies Germany.
"Customers using Mentor Graphics' vehicle network design tools with the Agilent test and validation products will be able to easily verify complex signal chains and network/signal timings".
"Our partnership with Agilent allows us to focus on our core competencies, the network and electronic design tool and embedded software for Autosar and beyond", said Joachim Langenwalter, Director, Automotive Networking Business Unit at Mentor Graphics Germany.
"With Agilent, the market leader in test and measurement solutions, our customers will gain a continuous flow combining the best technologies, from design thorough implementation all the way to test and validation, far beyond classical protocol test".
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