TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Implements Industry's Fastest Total-Jitter Measurement on Bit Error Ratio Testers; Innovative Measurement Reduces Test Time by a Factor of 40, Provides Higher-Quality Results to R&D Engineers.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , 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 another in a series of measurement innovations for its high-performance bit error ratio In telecommunication, an error ratio is the ratio of the number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks incorrectly received to the total number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks sent during a specified time interval. testers (BERTs). With the release of the industry's fastest Total Jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle (TJ) measurement capability on Agilent's BERTs, R&D engineers in the computer, semiconductor and communications industries can now easily perform high-quality TJ measurements more than 40 times faster than with any existing BER (1) (Basic Encoding Rules) A set of encoding rules for ASN.1 notation, which is a method for defining data structures. See ASN.1. (2) (Bit Error Rate) The average number of bits transmitted in error. See BERT. 1. measurement solution on the market. Using this new measurement enables them to perform high-quality device characterization while speeding the development of new products. The measurement of Total Jitter is important to ensure the proper working of high-speed devices such as PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. II, Serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment III and 8X Fibre Channel. "The new Fast TJ measurement makes a significant contribution to testing by reducing the measurement time from days to minutes," said Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Digital Verifications Solutions Division. To ensure an accurate measurement, the test environment must be precisely controlled. This leads to very few total jitter measurements in a design. The Fast TJ measurement technique uses a new statistical algorithm that is up to 40 times faster, which enables R&D engineers to run TJ measurements more often, resulting in a better device characterization. The Fast TJ measurement is simple to make, requiring the user to select only the desired bit error ratio and the resolution accuracy. The uncertainty of the TJ measurement is also determined, which defines the significance of the result. The Fast TJ measurement is independent of jitter modeling and works on any jitter distribution, further increasing overall confidence in the measurement. Agilent's new Fast TJ measurement software is the implementation of the award-winning paper "Total Jitter Measurement at Low Probability Levels, Using Optimized BERT (Bit Error Rate Test) An analysis of network transmission efficiency that computes the percentage of bits received in error from the total number sent. Scan Method," presented at the DesignCon West in January 2005. The paper is available at www.designcon.com/pdf/7-ta4_mueller.pdf. The Fast TJ measurement is included in the new firmware releases of the Agilent ParBERT 81250 measurement suite and the high-performance N4901B/02B Serial BERTs. The firmware updates are free for download at www.agilent.com/find/FTJ. The ParBERT 81250 is Agilent's modular bit error ratio test solution for parallel and multiple serial computer and telecom high-speed communication ports up to 13.5 Gb/s. The Agilent N4900 Serial BERT family includes high-performance N4901B/02B Serial BERTs as well as the new cost-effective N4906B Serial BERT, with testing up to 12.5 Gb/s. For More Information More information about the Agilent Fast TJ measurement is available at www.agilent.com/find/FTJ. More information about Agilent's BERT products is available at www.agilent.com/find/BERTs. Photos of the product are available at www.agilent.com/find/FTJ_Images. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. 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