Agilent hosts new range of Test & measurement webcasts

Agilent is hosting a series of Webcasts for electronics professionals. They cover EMI/EMC challenges, high speed DDR probing and analysis, Serial Bus Networks, Voice Transport over LTE, and an introduction to 802.11ac WLAN technology and testing.

There are five webcasts in total:

16th February at 15:00 GMT -- Introduction to EMI/EMC Challenges and Their Solution - Part III

In the multigigabit era, passing EMI/EMC specs is increasingly challenging. Discovery of an EMI/EMC failure late in the project can force a recourse to makeshift solutions that add unit cost and delay time to market. In this webcast, we explain the causes of EMI/EMC and propose a proactive methodology that we dub “Virtual EMI lab.” This methods uses EM simulation to identify and mitigate issues early in the design when many more design options are available.

22nd February at 14:30 GMT -- New High Speed DDR Probing and Analysis Tool

The use of BGA probes for probing DDR DRAM is becoming more popular as design gets more complex and compact and data rates get higher. DDR3 and DDR4 data rates are increasing from 800MT/s to possibly 3200MT/s. Memory system designers now have huge concerns on probing meeting the high bandwidth requirement for best signal fidelity and also are in need of analysis tool to ease making measurements. This web seminar describes a new probe correction method used to extend the bandwidth of the DDR BGA probe to provide more margins in testing signal integrity and minimize error introduced by the BGA probe. It also includes analysis tools available today to help make measurements and reduce test cost and time.

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22nd February at 15:00 GMT -- Characterizing MIL-STD 1553 and ARINC 429 Serial Bus Networks

The most common serial buses used today to interconnect and communicate between aircraft computers, peripheral avionics equipment, and sensors are the MIL-STD 1553 bus (military applications) and the ARINC 429 bus (commercial applications).
Measuring the physical layer (electrical/analog) characteristics of these buses have traditionally been performed using conventional analog or digital storage oscilloscopes (DSO). But due to the complexity of these serial bus signals, isolating measurements at specific terminals/subsystems based on remote terminal addresses (MS-1553) or Labels (ARINC 429) have been difficult, if not impossible, using a conventional oscilloscope.

23rd February at 15:00 GMT -- New Challenges for UE Developers with Voice Transport Over LTE

With increasing deployment of LTE, and with ever-increasing demands for hi-data throughput, we are witnessing faster transition to an all IP based network. While mobile applications continue to dominate demands on the mobile infrastructure, legacy traffic such as voice and services will provide fresh challenges in extracting deterministic performance from an IP based backbone provided by LTE. The new demands on end-to-end IP data performance will require frequent fallbacks from packet to circuit switched mechanisms, and added complexity in handovers between LTE and 2G/3G/3.5G.

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14th March at 15:00 GMT -- Introduction to 802.11ac WLAN Technology and Testing

The growing popularity of high-definition video and desire for fast streaming and file transfers is driving the need for higher data throughput for WLAN. This  web seminar provides an introduction to the new IEEE 802.11ac standard that is under development to address the need for “very high throughput.” Some of the design and test challenges that R&D and test engineers may face as they implement the new features in this standard will also be discussed, and some measurement solutions will be presented.