According to the company, the Agilent Technologies U7246A is the industry’s first secure digital ultra-high-speed (SD UHS-I) card compliance test application. This compliance test package is designed to help engineers accelerate the turn-on and debug of SD UHS-I card-based systems used in portable consumer electronics. It also provides an efficient way for design engineers to ensure their SD devices and hosts will interoperate, Agilent says.

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The application runs on Agilent’s Infiniium 9000 and 90000 series oscilloscopes and provides SD UHS-I card physical-layer (PHY) compliance measurements. Compliance tests are based on the SD Association (SD) 3.0 SD UHS-I card specification. SD is the world-leading standard for removable memory cards used in portable devices, and the new-generation memory card specification increases storage capacity from more than 32 Gbytes to up to 2 Tbytes with ultra-high speeds up to 104 Mbytes/s.

Also, the application provides automated PHY testing capability for bus output timing analysis and current consumption tests in the 3.0 specification. It automatically configures the oscilloscope for each test and generates an HTML report at the end of the test. The report compares the results with the specification test and indicates how closely the device passes or fails each test.

Based on an FPGA board design, the TD-BD-SDCMPTestC SD compliance tool from Tokyo Electron Device provides signal access. It is available from Tokyo Electron Device in Japan. Customers outside Japan are served through the company’s worldwide authorized distributor, BitifEye Digital Test Solutions. In addition, BitifEye provides first-level customer support for the tool.

Agilent says that engineers can easily debug data signal integrity issues using the SD UHS-I card compliance test application in conjunction with the SD compliance tool from Tokyo Electron Device. Operating on the FPGA-based tool, the application sets up the scope to separate the read and write data for measuring eye diagrams and current. The software also supports automated read and write tests with different analog electrical conditions.

Now available, the U7246A SD UHS-I card compliance test application costs $4500.

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