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ASA's Waveform Viewer Announced as Finalist in EE Times "Ultimate Product Award" Category
"WV is intended to help get the engineer OUT of the lab, eliminate congestion around
the most popular hardware, and facilitate collaboration among engineers by providing
them a way to communicate with each other using actual scope data and explore it as if
they were at the scope... wherever they may actually be. Any scope... any place... any
time. WV provides engineers with the ability to control where they spend their heartbeats
and it's good to know customers appreciate what we're trying to accomplish."
Mike Williams, President ASA Corp
EE Times announced Monday, December 18th,
that ASA Corp.'s Waveform Viewer would be named as a finalist in the publication's "Ultimate
Product Award" category. The Ultimate Product Award is conducted once every quarter by EE Times
in conjunction with EE Product Center. The program allows customers to vote on which product best
fulfills their needs in a specific category. Waveform Viewer was named 2nd in the Test
and Measurement category. Waveform Viewer was released by ASA Corp. in June 2006 with the intent of
getting engineers "out of the lab." With Waveform Viewer, also known as "WV, you're able to capture,
view, analyze, save, and report waveforms taken from any scope in your lab. The next step is to use those
waveforms in new, more convenient places like conference rooms, meetings or even the comfort of your own
home. EE Times posted Waveform Viewer on its partner site
www.eeProductCenter.com back in September. The
product received the second highest number of customer votes as the
"Ultimate Product." ASA was previously awarded third
place by EE Times for M1 OT™ v4.06, a version that included a number of important additional scope
analysis capabilities. ASA has been giving away WV, originally priced at $145, since the product was
released. More information on Waveform Viewer and its latest award can be found by visiting the
ASA website.
-Meghan Rothschild
ASA Congratulates Agilent Technologies on the Release of "First"
DDR2 Compliance Test
Agilent Technologies announced on Wednesday, December 14th that the company was releasing "the
industry's first oscilloscope-based DDR2 compliance test application."
(www.agilent.com/about/newsroom) When
approached for comment, Mike Williams, President of ASA Corp reacted with, "Huh...didn't
we do that, like, three years ago?" And indeed, in verifying Williams' claim, it was
discovered that ASA did publish and publicly
announce a DDR2 compliance test in April of 2004 as a no charge ASM (Application-Specific Measurement)
in version 3.0 of their M1 analysis software, and also that the current version of the DDR spec (JESD79-2C)
is presently available as a no cost TestScript for M1 Oscilloscope Tools.
Agilent has been selling M1 Oscilloscope Tools for over 3 years, so although the company's
accomplishment is noteworthy, Agilent's customers have, in fact, had access to this capability
for over 2 1/2 years. Agilent announced a cost of $3,001 for the test, but to actually run the
product a customer would be required to also purchase an additional $13,000 in Serial Data and
Infiniiscan software, for a total commitment of $16,000 to get into DDR2 testing. ASA's DDR2 TestScript,
along with dozens of capabilities that other companies have previously claimed as 'firsts,' as well as
numerous measurement abilities they don't have, are all available under the inclusive pricing strategy
of M1 Oscilloscope Tools.
"If paying $16k to get a simple compliance test winds your spring, then here's a prime
opportunity," said Williams. "However, this is, to me, another component in an
unsustainable model of
'automation' that all of the scope companies are chasing... where the customer waits 9-12 months,
or in this case 2.5 years, for the scope manufacturer to finally offer the application. When it comes
out, it's expensive... it requires other expensive software to actually run... and then it only runs
on some of their hardware. The M1 Oscilloscope Tools model is as opposite of that as it can be, and
that includes moving the place where applications can be written from the manufacturer to the end-user.
You can quickly click together any compliance test or automation you might want to have in M1, and
have it when you want it... not months or years later. Our commitment is to be first... to run on
whatever scope you own... and to include new capability within the product at no additional charge.
When we use the words 'first', 'innovate' and 'revolutionary', we mean it."
Further information regarding ASA's DDR2 Compliance Test can be found at the ASA Newsroom
Archives.
-Meghan Rothschild
ASA's M1 Featured DDR2 Compliance Testing Back in M1 v3 (pictured here); ASA is currently selling M1 v4.07
ASA has decided to extend the company's recent year end promotion until midnight, January 31st 2007. Right now if you use a credit card to purchase any M1 Oscilloscope Tools product (including subscription, technical support, etc) you receive 50% off the cost. There are no eligibility requirements other than purchasing with a credit card. Just visit our purchase page
and the discount will be applied before you're asked to provide your
billing information. Interested in other promotions? Check out our promotions page for additional opportunities to save money.
ASA Introduces Animation and Unattended Fault Detection to M1 OT™
ASA
is taking yet another pioneering step towards creating interface
consistency across all oscilloscopes by announcing the company's
release of two new major functionalities: scope animation and
unattended fault detection. Animation provides users with added
insights by converting the usual static ScopeView into an active
screen, rapidly changing the data it displays. This feature provides
the customer with an interface that looks similar to a screen that is
continuously acquiring data on a scope. "One of the problems that post
processing software has always had is that it looks at each acquisition
as a whole," said Mike Williams,
President of ASA. "This, of course, has a lot of utility for various
kinds of analysis, especially if you have a good set of exploratory
tools that allow you to easily navigate over the surface of the
analysis. In my own debug work I have always used this post processing
in conjunction with an active scope display because sometimes the
dynamics of the way the voltage versus time display presents provides
additional insight into things I am trying to understand in a versus
time display. So while scope animation is redundant if you're using M1
at the oscilloscope, one of the greatest features of the M1 portfolio
is that it allows you to see what happened at the oscilloscope when you
and your collaborators are away from the oscilloscope."
Unattended
fault detection lets customers continuously take scheduled acquisitions
using the M1 software. Users can now run M1, unattended, at full speed
and be assured they are capturing every failed acquisition, as well as
timed, normal acquisitions to compare the behavior of the device. "If
you've got a signal that's really screwed up you don't need fancy
software sitting there doing a suicide watch on it," said Williams.
"You can probably track that down with a volt meter, but if your
failures occur more on the order of hours or days or longer, this
feature can help capture the offending behavior for detailed analysis
without your having to sit there and get a suntan from the CRT."
Animation and unattended fault detection are set to launch around January 15th, 2007. The updates will be available to current subscription holders by accessing the download page.
Scope Animation will be available to current subscription holders on January 15th.
Mike Williams Launches His Blog Announcing ASA's New Compliance Test Strategy
"My
blog will be a way to more frequently share commentary about our
company, our products and our industry, in a more timely way with those
who want to hear about it."
-Mike Williams, President, ASA
Mike Williams, President of ASA Corp, launched his first official blog on January 2nd, 2007.
"As someone who holds a certain level of pessimism about new and trendy
things I don't know how I feel about being associated with the word
blog," said Williams. "However, ASA has become so busy in the past few
months that the demand to be in contact with our customer has
significantly increased. I intend to address some of the industry's top
issues as well as customer concerns with this blog."
Building Up a Base of Compliance Tests
Williams announced on January 3rd, that ASA would continue to work swiftly on creating compliance tests
to be made available to customers free of charge. "The need to perform
compliance tests is one of the main reasons customers purchase
oscilloscopes, but currently purchasing these tests from the scope
manufacturer tends to be expensive, proprietary to only that company's
hardware, and require other expensive software to operate," said Mike
Williams, President of ASA.
"One of our principal
goals in creating all the automation capability that we have put into
M1 Oscilloscope Tools (TestScripts, ScriptBuilder, Measurement Builder,
etc) was to shift the place where the creation of these kinds of things
happen from the hands of a few programmers at the scope companies to
the customer's hands. This allows engineers to have exactly what they
want long before the scope companies decide to write it. You can 'click
together' just about any test or sequence of measurements you wish."
More information regarding compliance tests ASA already provides can be
found by accessing the company's Scope Applications site.
Further increasing customer awareness, ASA's Marketing department has initiated an "ASA's Latest" blog
to keep customers updated on the most current features and promotions
being offered by the company. Additional information on what's
happening at ASA can be found by accessing the ASA newsroom.
EE Times announced Monday, December 18th,
that ASA Corp.'s Waveform Viewer would be named as a finalist in the publication's "Ultimate
Product Award" category. The Ultimate Product Award is conducted once every quarter by EE Times
in conjunction with EE Product Center. The program allows customers to vote on which product best
fulfills their needs in a specific category. Waveform Viewer was named 2nd in the Test
and Measurement category. Waveform Viewer was released by ASA Corp. in June 2006 with the intent of
getting engineers "out of the lab." With Waveform Viewer, also known as "WV, you're able to capture,
view, analyze, save, and report waveforms taken from any scope in your lab. The next step is to use those
waveforms in new, more convenient places like conference rooms, meetings or even the comfort of your own
home. EE Times posted Waveform Viewer on its partner site
"Ultimate Product." ASA was previously awarded third
place by EE Times for M1 OT™ v4.06, a version that included a number of important additional scope
analysis capabilities. ASA has been giving away WV, originally priced at $145, since the product was
released. More information on Waveform Viewer and its latest award can be found by visiting the
Agilent Technologies announced on Wednesday, December 14th that the company was releasing "the
industry's first oscilloscope-based DDR2 compliance test application."
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Further information regarding ASA's DDR2 Compliance Test can be found at the ASA Newsroom
