Agilent Unveils Rapid Automation for Agilent Infiniium Oscilloscopes via User-Defined Application

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a flexible and integrated measurement automation software for Agilent Infiniium real-time oscilloscopes.

The Company said the N5467A user-defined application (UDA) software gives engineers the ability to rapidly automate measurements on Infiniium oscilloscopes, which helps them save time and money.

In addition to saving time and money, automation provides setup and measurement consistency across sites and scopes. Agilent said the UDA software takes advantage of the Infiniium 90000 Series oscilloscope's lowest noise floor and flattest response to give measurement accuracy.

Agilent's UDA software is ideal for situations where existing applications do not provide the exact automation capabilities engineers require. UDA software is fully compatible with Infiniium baseline applications, including EZJIT, EZJIT Plus, serial data analysis, serial data equalization, and InfiniiScan software. It provides full, detailed HTML reports for the simplest to the most-complicated measurements.

The application features basic and advanced debug modes. Basic mode provides simple automation for measurements such as frequency and rms noise. Advanced mode allows UDA software to control Agilent Infiniium 90000, 80000 and 8000 Series oscilloscopes and any Agilent/HP instruments connected to a network via Agilent's IO Libraries. With this capability, engineers can develop their own custom applications with the look and precision of complex and more-expensive applications.

"Engineers have been asking for the ability to make custom automated measurements," said Scott Sampl, vice president and general manager of Agilent's oscilloscopes business. "We are excited to give our customers the flexibility they need to make measurements outside of our normal compliance suite."

The Agilent N5467A user-defined application comes with its own development environment that can be downloaded free of charge from the Web. Engineers can then develop any application they need. Once the application is exported to an oscilloscope, it can be run as a fully integrated application, at which time the N5467A license is required. Engineers can also develop an application on the oscilloscope and generate and run the application in a single step, saving the time required to copy files from the PC to the Infiniium scope, the company noted in a release.

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