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Agilent Partners With Mentor on Automotive Network Design, Test and Validation Tools
Written by Tracy Heffner
Tuesday, 08 May 2007
SANTA CLARA, CA and WILSONVILLE, OR – Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Mentor Graphics, licensing to Agilent certain products in the Mentor Graphics Volcano product line. The Agilent LIN Tester, derived from Mentor's Volcano LIN Spector product, and the Agilent Vehicle Protocol Tester Series 500, derived from Mentor's Volcano TELLUS product, are said to help automotive engineers develop electronic products faster and under budget while meeting quality requirements.
The partnership allows Agilent to provide a more complete solution for automotive customers:
-Agilent now provides test and validation tools beyond the physical layer up to the protocol layer, addressing the increasing complexity of the vehicle network topology and the need for higher network bandwidth and higher reliability; -The Mentor Graphics workflow reportedly allows an engineer to design a vehicle network to correctness by capturing and validating high-level requirements in the early design phase, then automate the generation of the communication matrix. -Customers using the Mentor Graphics vehicle network design tools with the Agilent Tester will get immediate validation results.
“Mentor Graphics’ extensive vehicle protocol analysis and node emulation products complement Agilent’s leading physical layer test tools,” said Roland Jeutter, automotive business manager at Agilent Technologies Germany. “Customers using Mentor Graphics’ vehicle network design tools with the Agilent test and validation products will be able to easily verify complex signal chains and network/signal timings.”
“Our partnership with Agilent allows us to focus on our core competencies, the network and electronic design tool and embedded software for AUTOSAR and beyond,” said Joachim Langenwalter, director, Automotive Networking Business Unit at Mentor Graphics Germany. “With Agilent, the market leader in test and measurement solutions, our customers will gain a continuous flow combining the best technologies, from design thorough implementation all the way to test and validation, far beyond classical protocol test.”
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