Agilent Technologies to Supply German Federal Armed Forces With Digital Storage Oscilloscopes.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced it won a European-wide bid to supply the German Federal Armed Forces with more than 1,500 digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs). The Agilent 6000 Series oscilloscopes will be used by engineers and technicians to test electrical equipment at the maintenance and repair facilities of the German air force, navy and army. Agilent will begin delivering the oscilloscopes before the end of the year. Agilent created the 6000 Series oscilloscopes to meet the challenges that engineers and technicians face with testing sophisticated electronic designs. Today's designs are no longer based only on analog technology, but increasingly contain digital signals and serial communication buses, creating an environment of mixed fast and slow signals. This mixed-signal environment means engineers need to measure composite signal conditions and view time-correlated analog and digital signals. Agilent's 6000 Series oscilloscopes give engineers these capabilities. "Our new 6000 Series has made its mark on the oscilloscope oscilloscope (əsĭl`əskōp'), electronic device used to produce visual displays corresponding to electrical signals. Displays of such nonelectrical phenomena as the variations of a sound's intensity can be made if the phenomena are market," said Hans-JE-rgen Bochtler, sales manager for Agilent's Electronic Measurement Group in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. "Since introducing the new oscilloscope family last year, we have recorded significant growth and won market share in this highly competitive arena." Agilent 6000 Series DSO/MSO Oscilloscopes The 6000 Series includes 19 different oscilloscope models with frequency ranges from 100 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. to 1 GHz with two or four analog channels. The series also includes mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSOs) that offer 16 digital channels integrated with the analog channels. The 6000 Series oscilloscopes offer many technological innovations, such as a high-resolution display and fast signal processing speed, which simplify the task and shorten the time it takes to identify intermittent interference signals. They also offer deep digital memory, multiple standard I/O interfaces (LAN/USB/GPIB), and progressive serial trigger possibilities for I2C/SPI/CAN/LIN buses. With optional application packages, the oscilloscopes can decode the signals from these specialized buses and quickly make internal FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. measurements. In November 2006, Agilent added three models to the 6000 Series that are optimized for use in test systems. Because of their LXI Adj. 1. lxi - being one more than sixty 61, sixty-one cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. eXtensions for Instrumentation) interfaces and compact form-factor (only 44 mm high), these models are especially suitable for installing in test racks. Additional information about the Agilent 6000 Series is available at www.agilent.com/find/scope-new. A backgrounder on the Agilent 6000 Series is available at www.agilent.com/find/DSO6000_backgrounder, and high-resolution images are available at www.agilent.com/find/DSO6000_images. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. 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