Anritsu Company and The MathWorks, Inc. have agreed to offer a combined free trial of MATLAB and the jointly developed connectivity option to Anritsu's new Signature high-performance signal analyzer. Both companies believe that RF design engineers will benefit from the seamless combination of Signature's signal measurements with MATLAB's analysis capability.

To help promote the concept, the companies are providing a 30-day free trial. Signature customers can just download the MATLAB trial key and immediately begin the evaluation. All Anritsu demonstration instruments will also include MATLAB functionality.

Signature (MS2781A) is Anritsu's new high-performance signal analyzer with an advanced architecture that provides digital modulation analysis over the 100 Hz to 8 GHz frequency range. Anritsu has designed Signature in an open Windows XP environment so it can facilitate the exchange of simulated and measured data necessary to accurately analyze today's complex digital modulation. Users can easily design new or proprietary digital modulations by adding the MATLAB connectivity option. The option allows live update viewing of MATLAB processed results with measurements.