Agilent, Elektrobit Team to Provide FlexRay Tools

November 17th, 2007

Agilent will license certain automotive-network products from Elektrobit to create an integrated design and test toolset for software and test engineers. Agilent also introduced a strengthened suite of FlexRay test product offerings.

This partnership now extends Agilent’s FlexRay test offering with FlexRay protocol analysis products. EB and Agilent will share FlexRay technology and software components, assuring the compatibility of data formats in the design and validation process. Customers using EB’s FlexRay software design tools in conjunction with Agilent’s FlexRay communication test tools benefit from a consistent design flow.

Agilent’s strengthened FlexRay test product offering includes:

• The Agilent Vehicle Protocol Tester Series 1000 (VPT1000) that provides FlexRay protocol analysis, single-click signal insight and programmable fault injection, complemented by standalone data logging. The VPT1000 has two FlexRay, two CAN interfaces, analog inputs and digital I/Os.
• The VPT1000 together with the Agilent MSO6000 oscilloscope provides the time-correlated slot/segment boundary display of the global FlexRay timing schedule on an oscilloscope.
• The Agilent MSO8000 oscilloscope offers real-time FlexRay eye-diagrams and jitter measurements with sophisticated signal integrity failure analysis mechanisms of the electrical FlexRay bus.

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