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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe | Subject: N4851A and N4861A
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2008
Probes put handset protocols on test
System based on Agilent's 16900 logic analyser platform facilitates MIPI D-PHY hardware and software debug and reduces interoperability testing.
Agilent Technologies has come up with the industry's first MIPI D-PHY (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) protocol test solution, supporting Camera Serial Interface (CSI-2) and Display Serial Interfaces (DSI) for mobile devices This solution, which is based on Agilent's 16900 logic analyser platform, facilitates MIPI D-PHY hardware and software debug and reduces interoperability testing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a contributing member of the MIPI Alliance, Agilent is committed to the development of test solutions that address these emerging needs and help accelerate the adoption of MIPI D-PHY-enabled devices.
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Both the real-time analysis hardware and the stimulus hardware support MIPI D-PHY CSI-2 and MIPI D-PHY DSI.
They accelerate development by providing bit-level to image-level test capabilities, hierarchical protocol display, real-time error detection and automated tools for test-vector generation that allow users to efficiently simulate, troubleshoot and verify designs.
This logic analyser-based solution completes Agilent's previously introduced DigRF v3 test solution to offer a unique functional debug platform for next-generation mobile devices.
"For our Mobile eXtreme Convergence platforms, which simultaneously support both CSI and DSI, the Agilent MIPI D-PHY analysis solution saved us significant development time during the integration and validation phases of our design cycle", says Lane Schaller, Product Manager for Freescale.
"The introduction of this solution illustrates Agilent's commitment to use its expertise in logic, serial protocol and wireless test to help our customers transform mobile device architectures to digital technologies with a new set of tools that are well integrated into the wireless use model", says Sigi Gross, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Digital Test Division.
The Agilent N4851A analysis probe and N4861A stimulus probe are available now.
Pricing for the N4851A starts at US $13,561, and N4861A pricing starts at US $14,566.
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