Date: 15/09/2010

SD UHS card compliance test tool from Agilent for portable consumer electronics

Agilent has released the industry"s first secure digital ultra-high-speed (SD UHS-I) card compliance test application and a third-party compliance tool. This test package aids design engineers to accelerate the turn-on and debug of SD UHS-I card-based systems used in portable consumer electronics. The new test package also gives design engineers an efficient way to ensure their SD devices and hosts will interoperate.

The Agilent U7246A SD UHS-I card compliance test application runs on Agilent Infiniium 9000 and 90000 Series oscilloscopes and provides SD UHS-I card physical-layer compliance measurements. Compliance tests are based on the SD Association (SD) 3.0 SD UHS-I card specification.

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The Agilent SD UHS-I card compliance test application allows automated physical-layer testing capability for bus output timing analysis and current consumption tests in the 3.0 specification. This application configures the oscilloscope for each test and generates a HTML report at the end of the test.

The SD compliance tool used is TD-BD-SDCMPTestC from Tokyo Electron Device in Japan. This tool is based on an FPGA board design. Tokyo Electron Device's worldwide authorized distributor, BitifEye Digital Test Solutions serves this SD compliance tool outside Japan.

"Agilent has been very active in the SD Association for the past two years," said Jay Alexander, vice president and general manager of Agilent"s oscilloscopes business. "Our goal is to provide the most efficient compliance and characterization tool to help our customers achieve conformance with their SD UHS-I products for the consumer and mobile industries."

"BitifEye's SD UHS-I test fixture enables signal access for full compliance testing with Agilent's SD UHS-I card compliance test software," said Alexander Schmitt, CEO of BitifEye. "The combination provides our global customers with a comprehensive SD UHS-I card test solution."

Price: US$4,500.

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