Agilent Technologies' High-Performance Oscilloscope and Probing Syste

Agilent Technologies' High-Performance Oscilloscope and Probing System Wins DesignVision Award

    Business Editors/Technology Writers
    DesignCon 2005

    PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--

Panel Selects DSO80000 Series for Innovation, Uniqueness, Market Impact, Customer Benefits and Industry Value
    Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that its new DSO80000 Series of high-performance oscilloscopes and InfiniiMax II probing systems has won the DesignVision Award in the test and measurement category at the recent DesignCon awards and recognition program hosted by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC).
    "As the leader in providing educational opportunities to the electronic design industry, the IEC is proud to recognize Agilent Technologies for its ingenuity and service," said IEC Senior Director John Janowiak. "Based on this recognition, you can tell the spirit of innovation that has always fueled the electronic design and semiconductor industry is still going strong."
    "We are honored to receive this prestigious DesignVision award from the International Engineering Consortium," said Ron Nersesian, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Design Validation Division. "The award recognizes our commitment to providing design engineers with an accurate, repeatable test platform that not only meets their needs today, but provides a buffer for incorporating future, high-speed serial bus technologies as well."
    By next year, proprietary and industry-standard, high-speed serial buses such as Fibre Channel, fully buffered DIMM (FBD), serial ATA (SATA), serial attached SCSI (SAS) and PCI Express will have performance points that reach into the 4 to 8 Gb/s range. The Agilent Infiniium DSO80000 Series is required to capture the frequency harmonics and make accurate and repeatable measurements on such high-speed signals.
    Prior to the DSO80000 introduction, oscilloscopes had a maximum real-time analog bandwidth of 8 GHz, which many high-speed electronics designers found limiting. The Agilent Infiniium DSO81304A, which began shipping in January, now gives those same designers 13 GHz of real-time bandwidth, which translates into higher signal fidelity, more accurate and repeatable measurements and improved test margins. This benchmark-setting test tool also allows previously hidden high-speed signal components to be seen easily by engineers.
    The Agilent Infiniium DSO80000 Series introduction in October 2004 also included the Agilent InfiniiMax II Series probing system that is based on Agilent's award-winning InfiniiMax probing architecture. Helping to revolutionize oscilloscope probing systems across the industry, the Agilent InfiniiMax makes it possible to measure 13 GHz signals from the high-impedance probe tip to the highly responsive oscilloscope display, delivering an unmatched level of performance and usability.

    Further Information

--	Additional information about Agilent's Infiniium 80000 Series of 10, 12 and 13 GHz real-time oscilloscopes, InfiniiMax II probing systems and the company's complete line of validation and debug tools is available at www.agilent.com/find/infiniimax2.
--	The backgrounder, "Oscilloscope Performance for Digital Design Verification and Debug for High-speed Applications," is available at www.agilent.com/find/infiniimax2_backgrounder.
--	Images are available at www.agilent.com/find/infiniimax2_images.

    U.S. Pricing and Availability

    The Agilent Infiniium DSO80000 Series of 10, 12 and 13 GHz real-time oscilloscopes and InfiniiMax II Series probing systems are available for order now, with shipments expected in February 2005. The DSO81304A uses DSP software techniques to increase its bandwidth from 12 GHz to 13 GHz; the DSO81204A and DSO81004A do not use DSP software to increase their bandwidth.

Model Description Price ----- ----------- -----

DSO81304 A 13 GHz Infiniium Oscilloscope $ 122,500 DSO81204A 12 GHz Infiniium Oscilloscope $ 115,000 DSO81004A 10 GHz Infiniium Oscilloscope $ 94,000 1169A 12/13 GHz InfiniiMax II Probe Amplifier $ 9,000 1168A 10 GHz Probe Amplifier $ 6,500 N5380A 12 GHz Differential SMA Probe Head $ 2,500 N5381A 10 GHz Differential Probe Head $ 400 N5382A 12 GHz Differential Browser Probe Head $ 600 N5398A DSO 81204A to DSO 81304A Upgrade Software $ 7,500

    About Agilent Technologies

    Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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