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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/