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ASA brings "Apps" to oscilloscopes and M1™
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The M1 Apps Program is a combination of enabling technology and a business model/marketplace designed to bring third-party applications developers together with scope users to more rapidly deliver needed scope functionality to market.
Amherst, MA USA…. December 18, 2009
Amherst Systems Associates Inc (ASA Corp.) today launched another industry first – an apps marketplace for scopes. Called the M1 Apps Program™, it is designed to create a mechanism to both drastically speed up the introduction of new scope functionalities (e.g. compliance tests, special measurements, stimulus-response, etc.) and to create scope functionalities that otherwise would never be developed.
"Our ultimate objective is to accelerate the production of new technology solutions that speed customer measurement workflow of every kind, without regard to scope brand", according to Mike Williams, President and Chief Product Designer for M1OT. "The technology component of the Apps Program is M1's powerful native automation capabilities, with three new essential business elements that make up the program."
- A new third-party Developers Program eliminates the technology barriers to having the true experts develop useful scope software of all kinds that runs on any brand of scope.
- A new marketplace called the M1 Apps Store gives M1 users a genuine financial incentive to develop a wide variety of new functionality. It is also a one-stop destination for scope users to easily find new, low-cost or free functionalities like compliance tests and special measurements.
- And a new Manufacturer's Apps Program makes it very simple for signal source manufacturers to rapidly create software options that combine their instruments with any scopes into stimulus-response systems. And do so without their having to re-develop and test any of the massive analysis functionality already in M1.
As of launch, the M1 Apps Store already has well over 100 Apps, including at least two “killer apps”:
- SimBridge™ which allows the user to apply the massive analysis capabilities of M1 to their simulator output. M1 is the only scope software/analysis tool that can be used across the entire device life-cycle, from simulation through R&D, characterization, production test and beyond.
- External Decode - M1 already provides a large number of decode capabilities, but there are a LOT of flavors of decode in the world. Our external decode App provides the framework, the hooks and a process for engineers and Developers to easily create new decode types in M1.
"Apps are all the rage now in other product spaces today," according to Williams, "but we've been in the customer-generated apps business since 2004 when we invented the idea of making scope software user-definable. What's different now is that we've created a marketplace to bring customer needs and developers together. The objective is more rapid and convenient access to new functionality across all scope brands."
To Learn More
For more in-depth comments by Williams: http://www.m1ot.com/mike-s-blog/4.htm
For more information about the M1 Apps Program: http://www.m1ot.com/m1apps
The M1 Third-Party Apps Developers Program is described at: http://www.m1ot.com/m1appsdevconnection
The M1 Apps Store itself is located at: http://www.m1ot.com/m1appsstore
An associated manufacturer's program is at: http://www.m1ot.com/m1appsOEM
U.S. Availability, Pricing and Photos
M1 OT is available immediately. It is priced at under $8000 (price determined by the attached scope). M1 is described at www.m1ot.com.
For further information about The M1 Apps Program, please email ASA at info@amherst-systems.com or visit the links above.
A photo of M1™ can be found at http://www.m1ot.com/press-photos-4.htm.
About ASA Corp.
ASA Corp. is an engineering/technology company focused squarely on clock & timing engineering, and related measurement science. As an innovator and a leader in this field for the past 22 years, ASA has helped forge how clock & timing is done today, as well as contributing significantly to what future clock and measurement technologies will look like. ASA's patented approach to analyzing jitter and timing in both clock and data-streams is instantiated in the M1™ product family, which has become the de facto standard for how high-precision timing is measured. The M1™ family of timing and jitter analysis tools is both the functionality and precision leader in every market segment in which it competes, and is the only tool which runs on the instruments of all of the major manufacturers. By combining unique know-how and experience with industry leading measurement products, ASA is in a unique position to deliver significant, genuine value to its hundreds of clients and partners worldwide.
Press Contact:
Rich Pavia
+1-413-596-5354 voice
+1-413-596-9686 fax
Richard_Pavia@Amherst-Systems.com
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ASA Corp. white-paper compares M1 native automation tools with
Agilent N5467A Infiniium User-Defined Application software
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White-paper reveals differences of importance to teams that use more than a limited set of scope models from a single manufacturer, or that would benefit from access to a broader set of capabilities.
Amherst, MA USA…. November 10, 2009
Amherst Systems Associates Inc. (ASA Corp.) today released a white paper comparing key contributions of their M1 Oscilloscope Tools native automation capabilities with those of Agilent's N5467A User-Defined Application software for automating measurement workflow that includes oscilloscopes.
While both products can provide their users with useful automation functionality, M1's different approach to the product space yields a number of advantages over others that attempt to favor one brand of scope over another. The primary conclusions of the comparison reported in the document are:
- M1 is not constrained to working with only a subset of one manufacturer’s equipment as UDA is and that this is a critically important difference.
- M1 affords access to a significantly wider range of built-in analysis types.
- M1 provides an intuitive graphical environment for authoring of automations, as well as a means for deriving automations from actual measurement sessions.
- Acquisition and ownership costs of automating scope-based measurement workflow with M1 are significantly lower.
"M1's unencumbered and easily scalable automation capabilities have been available to our customers since the release of M1 v4 in early 2005." Mike Williams, President of ASA and Chief Product Designer of M1 OT, said. "That head start translates into a substantially more refined vision and capability set. I'm confident that any team with a need to automate scope-based measurement workflow will be dramatically better served by the rich, native capabilities of M1."
Engineers interested in obtaining this comparison document can do so from: www.m1ot.com/automation.
U.S. Availability and Pricing
The capabilities discussed in this press release are native to M1 Oscilloscope Tools and M1 READER.
Both products are available immediately. M1OT is priced in the US from $995, depending upon the scope and M1 READER is priced at $250.
For further information, please email ASA at mailto:info@amherst-systems.com or visit us on the web at www.m1ot.com for M1 in general, and www.m1ot.com/automation to request the white paper or learn more.
Photos of M1™ can be found at http://www.m1ot.com/press-photos.
About ASA Corp.
ASA Corp. is an engineering/technology company focused squarely on clock & timing engineering, and related measurement science. As an innovator and a leader in this field for the past 22 years, ASA has helped forge how clock and timing is done today, as well as contributing significantly to what future clock and measurement technologies will look like. ASA's patented approach to analyzing jitter and timing in both clock and data-streams is instantiated in the M1™ product family, which has become the de facto standard for how high-precision timing is measured. The M1™ family of timing and jitter analysis tools is both the functionality and precision leader in every market segment in which it competes, and is the only tool which runs on the instruments of all of the major manufacturers. By combining unique know-how and experience with industry leading measurement products, ASA is in a unique position to deliver significant, genuine value to its hundreds of clients and partners worldwide.
Press Contact:
Rich Pavia
+1-413-596-5354 voice
+1-413-596-9686 fax
Richard_Pavia@Amherst-Systems.com
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M1OT Promotion Replaces Dozens of Scope-Software Titles for $99
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Amherst, MA USA…. June 5,
2009
Amherst Systems Associates Inc (ASA Corp.) today announced special promotional pricing for M1 Oscilloscope Tools - Standard Edition, intended to attract new customers and introduce them to their scope software. Under this promotion, a customer can purchase a permanent license to "M1 Standard" (normally $1995) for just $99. This will include one compliance test of the customer's choice. Additional tests can be purchased if needed.
The Standard Edition of M1 Oscilloscope Tools (M1OT-S) derives from ASA's flagship scope software M1 Oscilloscope Tools - Ultimate Edition (M1OT-U). Standard Edition is designed to provide an all-in-one-tool with functionality on par with the numerous proprietary tools available from the scope companies, at one to two orders of magnitude lower cost, and to support Tektronix, Agilent, LeCroy and Yokogawa oscilloscopes equally well. While a full complement of analysis packages with a single compliance test from ScopeCo can price out at well over $50,000, be spread across numerous software titles and user-interfaces, and provide little or no correlation across scope manufacturers, the M1 Standard promotion does provide broad functionality, a single UI and a single title that works on whatever real-time scopes the customer has.
According to Mike Williams, President and Principal Product Designer for the M1 family, "If you do the 'usual things' that high-end oscilloscope users do, M1 Standard is a single title that supports every level of oscilloscope from every major scope manufacturer, and it's yours for $100." M1 Standard includes:
- Full A – T – L – Y oscilloscope support - including the scopes their own SW won’t support
- Rich jitter/timing analysis
- One zero-cost compliance test included - DDR2/3, PCIe 2.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.
- Eye diagrams
- Serial data analysis
- Twelve different Rj/Dj modes per MJSQ
- Multiple analysis domains, intelligent axis synchronization
- MSO channel support
- I2C decode
- Full touch-screen support
- Extensive MATLAB connectivity
- True differential thresholding
"Included with this promotion is a discounted upgrade path to M1OT Ultimate," Williams further noted, "a tool brimming with innovative capabilities that provides tremendous enterprise level impact, such as team effectiveness, collaboration, measurement workflow speedup, and a great deal more."
The $99 M1-Standard promotion is scheduled to run June through August, 2009. Restrictions and other program rules apply, and are stated on the web sites listed below.
To learn more about M1 Standard or this promotion, please visit http://www.m1ot.com/m1ot_stdpromo.
To learn more about upgrading from M1 Standard to M1 Ultimate, please visit:
http://www.m1ot.com/upgrading-standard-to-ultimate.htm
To learn more about program rules, please visit: http://www.m1ot.com/m1-ot-std-promotion-rules.htm
To learn what compliance specs M1 supports, please visit www.m1ot.com/compliance.
To learn more about M1 Ultimate: please visit: www.m1ot.com
U.S. Availability and Pricing
Under this promotion, M1 Oscilloscope Tools – Standard Edition cost is $99 and includes one compliance test of the user's choice.
For further information about M1-OT, please email ASA at info@amherst-systems.com
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visit us on the web at
www.M1OT.com.
You may also request a quote at either sales@amherst-systems.com or on the web
at www.amherst-systems.com/onlinestore.htm.
About ASA Corp.
ASA Corp. is an engineering/technology company focussed
squarely on clock & timing engineering, and related measurement science. As
an innovator and a leader in this field for the past 25 years, ASA has helped
forge how clock & timing is done today, as well as contributing
significantly to what future clock and measurement technologies will look like.
ASA’s patented approach to analyzing jitter and timing in both clock and
data-streams is instantiated in the M1™ product family, which has become the
defacto standard for how high-precision timing is measured. The M1™ family of
timing and jitter analysis tools is both the functionality and precision leader
in every market segment in which it competes, and is the only tool which runs
on the instruments of all of the major manufacturers. By combining unique
know-how and experience with industry leading measurement products, ASA is in a
unique position to deliver significant, genuine value to it’s hundreds of
clients and partners worldwide.
Press Contact:
Richard Pavia
+1-413-596-5354 voice
+1-413-596-9686 fax
Richard_Pavia@Amherst-Systems.com
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