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Newsletter May 2010
News from the Leading Innovator in Oscilloscope Usefulness
May 17, 2010 www.M1OT.com Volume 13 Issue 1

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M1 Standard Free to Tektronix Scope Users

Get a no-cost license of M1OT-Standard on your qualifying current-model Tektronix oscilloscope. (continued...)
 

 

New M1 Pricing, Support Levels, and Reader functionality


ASA announces a new tier of support for new ultra-high-bandwidth scopes and a major addition to the functionality of M1 READER around scopes at the "value" end of the spectrum. (continued...)
 

Get Readers, Training & More With M1OT Purchase

Under the M1 Quick Start Promotion, you will receive a package of complimentary accessories and discounts when you purchase M1OT.  This is a limited-time offer. (continued...)
 

Using M1 Just Got Easier

Learn about new assistive technologies we have built in to make ramping up with M1 dramatically easier for both new and experienced users. (continued...)
 

Rapidly Create Decode Apps

The M1 External Decode Framework provides the App Developer (or customer) with all the resources they need to quickly create new serial decode methods for use in M1. (continued...)

 

ASA New Account Management Team


We're excited to report that we have assembled a team of very experienced Test & Measurement Account Managers to serve North America.  If you've purchased or evaluated an oscilloscope in the last decade, you may already know your ASA Account Manager.  Expect to hear from them with news about exciting sales promotions soon.

 

 

Midrange and Value Scopes - Lockout Functionalities

 

Learn about features M1 can provide for your midrange and value scope that you can't get from the manufacturer. (continued...)

   
 
ASA Releases M1 v6.04, 21 October 2009
Newsletter 08-13-2009
News from the Leading Innovator in Oscilloscope Usefulness
October 21, 2009 www.M1OT.com Volume 12 Issue 4
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...that M1OT's Characterization Manager allows you to gather results from many different measurements together in one place for easy transfer to a characterization report?
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M1OT v6.04 Released

The newest release of M1 is now available, and includes the following additions to functionality:

DDR2/3 Read/Write separation in an EyeView - When analyzing DDR2/3 traffic that includes both Reads and Writes, the difference in the timing relationship between strobe and data creates significant problems for a standard eye diagram or eye mask.  This new feature allows the user to select in the EyeView to display only those bits associated with Reads or only those bits associated with Writes once the DDR signals have been defined using M1's Named Signals capability.

FFT of a Multi-Signal measurement - This feature allows you to examine the spectral content of the Delay behavior between two signals, rather than just the spectral content of each signal separately.  With this feature, you'll now see FFTView as an additional display choice in the last step of the New Measurement wizard when a Multi-Signal measurement has been selected.

Flexible View Arrangement - Previously, M1 had been restricted to either a 2x2 Tiled or an up to 4-high Stacked arrangement of measurement windows.  This was fine for smaller resolution screens, but with the trend towards higher resolution it was time to make better use of the available screen area.  As a result, under Preferences/Display/ Change Layout, it is now possible for the user to specify the exact number of rows of measurement windows they want, as well as the number of views in each row.  M1 will ensure that the individual views don't get too small to be useable, but beyond that it's entirely up to you.

Also in this release:

  • User Defined Measurements - User Defined DLLs can now be selected from a menu and a measurement name and description can be used rather than just the DLL filename itself to select the measurement
  • Automations - Improvements in the ability to control external instruments from an M1 TestScript
  • New Scope Support - Support for Agilent 9000-series scopes has been added

Any customer with an active Software Subscription can download and install this update at no cost by going to www.amherst-systems.com/downloads.htm.  To see if you have an active Subscription, simply click on About M1 from the Main Menu tab.  For information on extending an existing Subscription or restarting a lapsed Subscription, go to www.amherst-systems.com/subscription-purchase-renewal.htm or contact ASA at sales@amherst-systems.com.


Using M1 OT as your Automation Standard

M1 Oscilloscope Tools contains several features that can ease your automation concerns.  M1 TestScripts provide a way to easily automate common sequences of measurements and actions, and can be 'clicked together' within the graphical ScriptBuilder authoring environment.  For more complicated scenarios (such as that shown below), M1 OT can be externally controlled via XML commands to facilitate inclusion into new or existing automation systems.  This includes the ability to separate the acquisition side, using M1 OT, from the analysis side, using M1 Reader, to greatly improve system throughput and scalability. 

 

 

Best of all, M1 acts as a Hardware Abstraction Layer between you and your scope.  Once a script is working, you can easily replace your current scope with a new one (even one from a different manufacturer) and continue to use the same commands as if nothing had changed.  This saves considerable money compared to having to rewrite and retest parts of your automation system to account for a new instrument.
 


Seeking Experienced Oscilloscope Sales Engineers

ASA is seeking talented T&M sales engineers with experience in selling mid to high-end scopes for Tek, Agilent or LeCroy for both direct employment and in an innovative Virtual Field Organization (VFO). The VFO is a tool for these times. We can't directly hire everyone, but VFO is intended to create significant income opportunity for those who can impact our sales. And it gives ASA the opportunity to help out some of the real high-performers we have worked with over the years, while providing a qualified scope sales engineer the ability to build his own job at ASA (the company that invented the scope software market in the 90's). 

 

Given the devastating conditions of this economy, we are limiting this strictly to sales engineers that have been laid off.  To learn more about the openings and the program, please visit www.m1ot.com/field-program-2009.htm.
 


ASA Customer Skills Training

ASA will be launching a range of new training programs starting September 1, 2009. The ASA Customer Skills Training programs are a comprehensive, progressive (i.e. one program builds on others) set of modules that employ multiple learning modes (classroom, hands-on lab, and when certification is being made available, testing.)  Modules are available or are being developed, that cover Product Operation, Applications Knowledge, and select Advanced Topics. Examples include: 

  • M1 Basic Flight School where new-users are shown how to use the vast range of capabilities built into M1
  • Debugging techniques
  • Automation - Architecting a scalable M1-based automation system, authoring TestScripts and compliance tests, etc.
  • Topics in Measurement Workflow
  • Migrating from a multi-vendor, multi-title software environment to M1OT.
  • Deploying/managing Site and Enterprise Installations
  • And many more..

For more information about ASA training programs, please visit www.m1ot.com/Skills-Training
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Laid off, or know an engineer who is?


Based on the current state of the electronics industry, ASA has developed our M1 Recommender Program (MRP) to provide a bit of relief by recognizing the value of what you know.  Under the MRP, ASA shares a piece of the revenue with YOU on M1 sales that you help us to discover. 

 

More details about the M1 Recommender Program can be found on ASA's website at www.m1ot.com/MRP.htm
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M1 Rental Benefits

If your organization frequently uses rental scopes for an extended period, take a look at the opportunity to save thousands of dollars per month by using M1OT instead of ScopeCo's software with these rental oscilloscopes. The additional charges for software can easily exceed $1,500 per scope per month if your requirements include compliance testing such as DDR2, DDR3 or PCIe. With M1OT now available from several rental partners, you will be able to both increase your productivity and lower your monthly expenses.

Organizations relying heavily on rented scopes should also consider that ASA Volume Licensing might be immediately self-funding for their company. If 10 to 15 rental scopes can be identified with software, the M1 Site License will immediately save you money - and that is before taking advantage of the organization-wide impacts that can be realized by having a common tool architecture with advanced debug, team collaboration, off-line processing and able to be deployed anywhere within an entire campus for a low monthly fee.

For more information on the M1 Rental program or our Volume licensing program, contact ASA at info@amherst-systems.com.


Employment Opportunities at ASA

ASA is seeking an exceptional individual to provide the necessary care and feeding of our Western-region domestic sales. Experience in direct sales with test and measurement equipment is a minimum, as is at least 5 years in sales experience. Candidates should reside in the Bay Area if possible. Experience with transactional selling methods is a strong plus. Ability to work with channel sales is a plus

ASA Corp. is currently seeking imaginative electrical or computer engineering programmers to join our team. These individuals should have solid programming and test equipment experience, but more importantly, be willing to bring energy and the passion to dominate the industry to ASA.

If you're interested in employment at ASA visit our website at www.amherst-systems.com/Opportunities.html for more information or send an email with your resume to: jobs@Amherst-Systems.com.

 
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