Agilent Offers PC-Based Oscilloscope Analysis Application
April 17, 2012. Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the N8900A InfiniiView PC-based oscilloscope analysis software, which allows engineers to view and analyze previously captured signals from oscilloscopes made by Agilent and other vendors.
The need to have a target system and an oscilloscope available simultaneously can cause debugging and testing bottlenecks. InfiniiView alleviates the bottleneck by allowing engineers to view, analyze, share, and document their results at a different time or place from where tests are performed.
To enable engineers to create usable documentation faster, InfiniiView incorporates bookmarks and smart markers – documentation features. Because the application runs on a PC, users can more easily share information with design partners, vendors and customers using thumb drives, email or Web conferencing.
“We’ve worked with several customers to define the right feature set to make InfiniiView valuable to a large number of oscilloscope users,” said Jay Alexander, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Oscilloscope Products Division. “We’re excited to offer this type of innovative application to complement our ever-increasing scope hardware capability.”
InfiniiView migrates a full-featured real-time oscilloscope user interface to a PC for rapid navigation and powerful viewing/analysis. It offers up to 1680 x 1200 display resolution for better waveform viewing with large monitors. It also offers separate dockable windows for time, frequency, and protocol measurements for user-customizable views.
In addition, the application offers transportable and server-based licensing to facilitate sharing. (Not only can users share data, but they also can lend application licenses.) It also offers smart markers that dynamically update delta values coupled with annotated axis values for faster debugging. It supports protocol decode for I2C; SPI; RS-232; RS-422; RS-485; UART; JTAG; CAN; LIN; FlexRay; USB; PCIe gen 1, 2 and 3; MIPI D-Phy; DigRF; 8B/10B; and 64B/66B Ethernet.
Agilent N8900A InfiniiView oscilloscope analysis application is priced at $750 for the base software, and Agilent offers a variety of upgrades. A free 14-day trial license is available.
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