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September 23, 2005
Agilent unveils 100 MHz DSOs/MSOs with high performance capabilities

NEW DELHI -- Agilent Technologies Inc. recentlly introduced four 100 MHz portable digital storage and mixed-signal oscilloscopes (DSOs/MSOs) with the highest performance capabilities in the industry. With a real-time sample rate of 2 GSa/s on each channel and display update rate up to 40 times faster than competing models, the Agilent 6000 Series can now show critical events in complex waveforms, dramatically reducing the design verification and debug time.

These additions to the 6000 Series provide the industry with its first 4+16-channel MSO in the 100 MHz segment. These oscilloscopes feature industry-leading waveform viewing and measurement insight for 8- and 16-bit embedded system designers in the aerospace/defense, automotive, communications and consumer electronics industries. 

Exceptional waveform viewing is achieved with Agilent’s MegaZoom III display technology. MegaZoom III provides users with real-time, high-resolution XGA waveform viewing with 256 levels of colour-intensity grades and memory depth up to a full 8 Meg points -- 800 times more than competing models. The dynamic range in the Z-axis provides the highest waveform-display quality of any other portable oscilloscopes on the market today.

Engineers face design problems that are increasingly digital in nature -- more and faster signals, wider time spans and serial triggering.  Agilent’s portable 6000 series oscilloscopes provide the performance needed to address these measurement challenges. They are optimised for waveform update rates and display resolution, and, have the ability to add 16 logic-timing channels. 

Shankar Roy Chowdhury, g eneral manager, marketing, test & measurement group, Agilent Technologies India, said: “The new 100 MHz models bring industry-leading performance technology to those working on MCU- and FPGA-based designs at a price that fits their budget.  Customers designing products based on 8- and 16-bit MCUs and FPGAs will now be able to get the exceptional performance of the 6000 series oscilloscopes previously available only in the higher-performance, more expensive oscilloscope models. With MegaZoom III, users now have a scope that can trigger, capture and display the critical events in complex signals inside their systems.”

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