Low-Cost A/V Card For SoC Testers Features 8 Independent Units

Sept. 6, 2004

The Audio/Video 8 analog card is designed for the company's system-on-a-chip (SoC) series of testers. With eight independent units, it offers true parallel multisite testing. It reduces the cost of testing for cellular baseband and other mixed-signal SoC/SIP ICs by up to 20%. Unlike other mixed-signal SoC test options, analog resources don't have to be shared for multisite testing or the purchase of additional cards. It contains 16 audio capture cores and can include arbitrary waveform generator and digitizer functionality. Two versions are available: four source and four measurement units, and eight measurement units. Pricing starts at under $150,000 to upgrade existing systems.

Agilent Technologieswww.agilent.com(800) 829-4444

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Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.