About ASA - Contributions to Industry

  • Clock and Timing engineering methodology - since 1985

    Preserving, extending and teaching sophisticated clock/timing engineering methods from the supercomputer and main-frame era

    • 30+ years of working with the most advanced clock/timing issues/problems around the world
    • State-of-the-art tolerance management methods
    • Cycle-to-Cycle Measurement, N-Cycle, accumulated jitter, spread-spectrum, etc.
    • PLL design and debug methods
    • ASA Jitter Summit - Over 30 Intel clock-device suppliers
    • First Pentium clocking reference design
    • DRCG timing background engineering
    • Too many "rescue consults" to count

  • Test and Measurement - Oscilloscope usefulness software - since 1994

    ASA invented the scope software market and remains the leading innovator in that space with NUMEROUS industry firsts since 1994

    • cycle-cycle timing analysis (patented)
    • serial-data analysis
    • brand agnostic and end-to-end - supports all scopes (incl. MSO), digitizers, and EDA tools
    • Compliance Breakout
    • eye-diagrams and masks
    • true differential thresholding
    • highly scalable measurement automation
    • Hidden Anomaly Location (patented)
    • off-line analysis/collaboration
    • scalable pricing
    • software subscription
    • 3rd-party Apps program/marketplace
    • compliance testing - the concept itself as well as multiple standards
    • multi-domain analysis from waveform data
    • RjDj including error calibration, validation, instrument noise, etc.
    • etc, etc, etc. - more firsts than all three ScopeCos combined