Tektronix Acquires Test Software Company TDA Systems
23 Juin 2005 - 2:48AM
PR Newswire (US)
Tektronix Acquires Test Software Company TDA Systems Acquisition
Improves Ability to Provide Customers with Total Solutions for
Complex Networks Carrying Fast Serial Data BEAVERTON, Ore., June 22
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK), a leading
worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring
instrumentation, announced it has acquired TDA Systems of Lake
Oswego, Oregon, a provider of interconnect analysis software tools.
TDA Systems, which has provided testing software to the electronics
industry -- including Tektronix -- for high speed serial data, will
be fully integrated with the company's sampling scope product line.
"TDA Systems has been a successful partner of Tektronix for many
years," said John Taggart, General Manager, Electro Optical Product
Line, Tektronix. "Both companies have provided customers with
complete solutions by integrating TDA's time domain analysis
software tools with Tektronix' market leading time domain solutions
to help customers push the performance limits of digital systems
designs, shorten product time to market, and achieve design
objectives more cost effectively and efficiently. The acquisition
of TDA will enable Tektronix to further leverage product and
technology synergies to accelerate development and delivery of more
complete solutions to our customers who are working in the emerging
high-speed serial data application space." "We're very pleased to
be joining Tektronix," said Dima Smolyansky, Co-founder, TDA
Systems. "By integrating the technology and expertise of TDA's time
domain analysis software tools with Tektronix' market-leading time
domain solutions, we expect to gain a synergy that will accelerate
delivery of leading edge solutions for the benefit of our mutual
customers." The TDA software is already integrated with Tektronix'
measurement instrumentation such as the TDS8200 sampling
oscilloscope. With full support of the TDR measurement system, the
TDA software provides integrated simulate- and-compare links
between SPICE / IBIS simulators and measurements, and includes
interfaces to electromagnetic field solvers and other analytical
interconnect model generation tools. The acquisition of TDA Systems
will enable Tektronix to provide total solutions including signal
acquisition and complex analysis for complex networks used to carry
fast serial data. Increasing serial data bit rates lead to
shrinking design tolerances. As a result, the characterization of
electrical signal paths and interconnects are becoming increasingly
critical to ensure signal integrity. Customers need to accurately
and easily characterize design performance. The combination of TDA
analysis software with Tektronix TDS8200 sampling oscilloscopes
provides customers with an excellent measurement package that
speeds diagnosis and resolution of signal impairment problems.
IConnect(R) and MeasureXtractor(TM) software tools developed by TDA
extract gigabit interconnect models when used with Tektronix
TDR/TDT (time-domain-reflectometry / time-domain-transmittance)
TDS8200 oscilloscopes. This technique is a proven alternative and
more accessible methodology when compared to using a vector-network
analyzer (VNA) for obtaining S-parameter measurements to predict
and display eye-diagram, jitter, losses, crosstalk, reflections and
ringing in PCBs, flexboards, packages, sockets, connectors and
cable assemblies. By comparison, TDR/TDT measurements are much more
straightforward to make. TDR gives immediate feedback between the
probe and the trace during reference and DUT (device under test)
measurements, while with a VNA it is not transparent to the user.
Significantly, time domain waveforms are much more intuitive to
understand, to determine the effects of different aspects of a
particular DUT. The ease of the calibration structures and
measurement procedure, together with related expenses of VNA, make
the time domain measurement a compelling method for obtaining
frequency domain data. About Tektronix Tektronix, Inc. is a test,
measurement, and monitoring company providing measurement solutions
to the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries
worldwide. With more than 55 years of experience, Tektronix enables
its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation
global communications networks and advanced technologies.
Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 20
countries worldwide. Tektronix' Web address is
http://www.tektronix.com/ NOTE: Tektronix is a registered trademark
of Tektronix, Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service
marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies. DATASOURCE: Tektronix, Inc. CONTACT: Gary Grossman of
Tektronix, +1-503-627-1097, or Web site: http://www.tektronix.com/
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