TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Introduces CAN/LIN Option for 6000 Series Oscilloscopes That Helps Automotive Engineers Find Design Problems Faster.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 introduced an automotive triggering and real-time decode option for its 6000 Series oscilloscopes that enables automotive engineers to gain insight into their CAN/LIN-based designs. The N5424A CAN/LIN option helps designers find and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. errors and signal integrity problems faster than they can with any other oscilloscope-based solution on the market today. CAN (controller area network) and LIN (local interconnect network The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. This article is about a network system. ) serial buses are used to route electronic signals between automotive subsystems. The harsh environment in automobiles makes these signals susceptible to signal integrity problems, which can create errors during critical communication cycles. Agilent's CAN/LIN option for the 6000 Series oscilloscopes features hardware-accelerated decode of CAN and LIN serial buses to produce the industry's fastest decode update rates. Competitors' 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 solutions with CAN triggering and protocol decode use post-processed software techniques to decode CAN frames. Using these software techniques, waveform- and decode-update rates tend to be slow (sometimes seconds per update), especially when engineers use deep memory, which they do for capturing packetized serial signals. With Agilent's hardware-based solution, waveforms are updated at up to 100,000 real-time waveforms per second, and hex-level serial decode is updated faster than the human eye can discern. The waveform update rates and superior display quality of the 6000 Series oscilloscopes, plus the fast decode update rates of the CAN/LIN option, enable designers to find and debug random and intermittent errors and signal-integrity problems that they could easily miss using other decode tools. The Agilent N5424A CAN/LIN option allows engineers to trigger on either standard or extended CAN message IDs, including the message ID of a remote transfer request frame. It supports triggering on a data frame, and allows engineers to specify message IDs, data and data length for filtering messages of interest. Triggering on active error frames also is supported. Agilent's 6000 Series mixed signal oscilloscopes A mixed signal oscilloscope (or MSO) has two kinds of inputs, a small number (typically two or four) of analogue channels, and a larger number (typically sixteen) of digital channels. (MSOs) are a perfect fit for verifying and debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. electronic automotive designs that include a combination of analog sensor inputs, long-haul serial traffic and higher-speed digital signals found in electronic control units. MSOs provide an integrated way to capture and correlate multiple analog and digital signals of various speeds with deep memory. Agilent's 6000 Series scopes are the only portable scopes on the market that provide both CAN and LIN triggering and decode. Agilent offers this optional capability in all four-channel models in the 6000 Series oscilloscopes with bandwidths ranging 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. up to 1 GHz. No other scope vendor offers this capability in a lower-priced 100-MHz model. U.S. Pricing and Availability The Agilent N5424A CAN/LIN automotive triggering and real-time decode option for 6000 Series oscilloscopes is priced at $1,500. The option is available now. Information about the Agilent N5424A is available at www.agilent.com/find/scopes. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 20,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.1 billion in fiscal 2005. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. 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