SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 2, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced the 33521A 1-channel function/arbitrary waveform generator and the 33522A 2-channel function/arbitrary waveform generator. The 33521A and 33522A are members of the Agilent 33500 Series family of function/arbitrary waveform generators.

The generators provide the lowest total harmonic distortion and jitter in their class. The generators’ large graphical display allows for simultaneous parameter setup, signal viewing and editing. The generator also offers more precise functions and true point-by-point arbitrary waveforms that are alias-protected for exceptional accuracy.

“With full-bandwidth pulses and real point-by-point arbitrary waveforms, the new 33500 series generators deliver the highest fidelity in their class,” said Gary Whitman, vice president and general manager, Agilent’s System Products Division. “R&D and manufacturing engineers will experience a new level of accuracy and flexibility, offering more precise validation of their designs and devices during test.”

The Agilent 33500 Series function/arbitrary waveform generators feature:

• 30 MHz sine, square and pulse waveform bandwidth to cover more applications;
• less than 40 ps jitter and total harmonic distortion of .04 percent providing greater signal fidelity; 
• 250 MSa/s, 16-bit sampling rate for higher time-resolution arbitrary waveforms; 
• true point-by-point arbitrary waveforms for more accurate representation of user-defined signals; 
• USB and LAN (LXI-C) for easy connectivity; and 
• a TCXO timebase (standard) and OCXO (optional) for ultra-high stability.

The Agilent 33521A and 33522A function/arbitrary waveform generators are fully compliant with the LXI Class C Specification. The generators include USB 2.0 and 10/100 Base-T Ethernet (LAN) for quick and easy connectivity to a PC or a network. A built-in Web page allows remote operation of the instrument from any browser. The 33500 Series of generators can connect with Agilent’s current line of function/arbitrary waveform generators (33210A, 33220A, 33250A) using the GPIB interface option.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

The pricing for the Agilent 33521A 1-channel function/arbitrary waveform generator starts at $1,930. The pricing for the 33522A 2-channel function/arbitrary waveform generator starts at $2,950. Both instruments are available now. Higher arbitrary waveform memory, higher stability timebase and GPIB interface options also are available.

About Agilent Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generators

For more information and video demonstrations about Agilent’s 33521A and 33522A function/arbitrary waveform generators, go to www.agilent.com/find/33500.

Photos of the 33521A and 33522A function/arbitrary waveform generators are available at www.agilent.com/find/33500_images.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. The company’s 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NIWeek — National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) today announced the NI 9157 and NI 9159 MXI-Express RIO chassis and NI 9148 Ethernet RIO chassis, which in addition to the existing NI 9144 EtherCAT chassis, extend the company’s offering of high-channel-count expansion chassis on a variety of buses. Built on NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology, these chassis deliver the benefits of field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware and C Series I/O to applications requiring hundreds, or even thousands, of channels. Each expansion chassis contains a Xilinx FPGA that is programmable with the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, giving engineers the flexibility of high-speed and customizable I/O timing, inline processing and control.

The new MXI-Express RIO 14-slot expansion chassis with onboard Virtex-5 FPGAs offer a high-end solution for large applications that require high channel counts, mixed I/O for a variety of measurements and custom signal processing and control algorithms. The MXI-Express link delivers high bandwidth for streaming data to and from multiple chassis from a single controller, offering hundreds of C Series module slots and thousands of channels of analog, digital and communication I/O including strain, acceleration, channel-to-channel isolated voltage input and simultaneous voltage. The new chassis are ideal for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, industrial machine monitoring and complex research applications.

“Using the MXI-Express RIO chassis, we can build highly customizable, high-channel-count conditioned measurement systems,” said Albion Knight, vice president of Green Mountain Research Inc. “We now use LabVIEW FPGA to program the FPGA within the chassis and add custom signal processing, control and timing to solve a variety of high-channel-count control and acquisition applications.”

The NI 9148 8-slot Ethernet expansion chassis adds flexible distributed I/O to RIO systems. With standard CAT 5 Ethernet cabling, it communicates with NI CompactRIO, real-time PXI controllers, the NI industrial controller or any networked Windows PC. The flexibility of the NI 9148 chassis makes it an ideal choice for seamlessly adding expansion I/O to an existing network. With an onboard FPGA and LabVIEW FPGA software, engineers can implement custom signal analysis, control and safety interlocks local to each chassis to create a truly modular system. Engineers also can use more than 50 third-party C Series I/O modules with these new chassis, including wireless modules based on 802.11, GPS, Edge, and other technologies. When combining the new NI 9148 Ethernet chassis with wireless modules from S.E.A. Datentechnik GmbH., engineers can turn the NI 9148 chassis into wireless expansion systems for application with difficult or impossible cabling.

These expansion chassis are an extension of the NI RIO platform, which delivers a wide variety of solutions at different prices and performance levels for control, design and test applications. The common NI RIO architecture consists of a processor, customizable FPGA and modular I/O, which combine to create a flexible system that solves complex application problems. Engineers can use the LabVIEW graphical development environment to program the processor, FPGA and I/O of their RIO system to create an embedded system that rivals the performance and optimization of custom hardware.

Readers can learn more about RIO expansion chassis options by reading the “NI C Series Expansion I/O for RIO Systems” white paper on www.ni.com.

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,000 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 11 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company’s investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing nati@ni.com or visiting www.ni.com/nati. (NATI-G)