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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe | Subject: N5450A InfiniiMax
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2007
Extension cable takes probes to extremes
Probing solution enables oscilloscope measurements in environmental chambers and in other settings with extreme temperature conditions.
Agilent Technologies has come up with the industry's first probing solution for making oscilloscope measurements in environmental chambers and in other settings with extreme temperature conditions The Agilent N5450A InfiniiMax extreme-temperature extension cable, used with the InfiniiMax Series probing system and Agilent Infiniium oscilloscopes, gives engineers the ability to probe signals at temperatures ranging from -55 to +150C
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The cable provides an ideal solution for designers working in the cellphone, automotive electronics, storage device and consumer electronics industries that need to validate and characterise their designs while operating within extreme temperature ranges.
Evaluating devices inside an environmental chamber is an essential part of product validation in applications such as automotive electronics validation, cellphone operation conformance and hard-disk-drive endurance testing.
Until now, testing in extreme temperature ranges required engineers to use probes outside their specified operating temperatures, which can damage probes.
"The award-winning InfiniiMax Series probe system has a unique and innovative topology that allows engineers to connect different probe heads, depending on their use models", says Jay Alexander, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Design Validation Division.
"By providing the extreme temperature probing solution, we have extended our offering to help engineers solve one of their challenging test problems".
The extreme-temperature extension cable provides an extra probing distance of 920mm and two different operational temperature ranges, depending on probe head configurations.
When used with the Agilent N5381A differential solder-in probe head, it provides engineers with the widest temperature range coverage of -55 to +150C, which is the maximum temperature range specified for automotive-industry testing.
When used with the Agilent E2677A differential solder-in probe head, E2678A differential socket probe head, or N5425A/26A ZIF tip, it allows engineers to probe in the temperature range from -25 to +80C.
The Agilent N5450A InfiniiMax extreme-temperature extension cable is available for purchase now at a list price US $1400.
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