Agilent Selected As HDMI Test Solution Provider

Simplay Labs, which operates four of the eight HDMI Authorized Test Centers (ATCs), has selected Agilent Technologies as its high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) test solution provider. Agilent's test solution meets, or exceeds, the requirements of the HDMI Compliance Test Specification (CTS) Version 1.4 and is listed as recommended test equipment. The Agilent test solution addresses four sectors: source testing, sink testing, media physical layer evaluation and protocol test.

The test solution was designed to reduce development costs while providing accurate test results with greater flexibility. Agilent's HDMI solution offers full automation software, which speeds up testing, providing efficient electrical performance of the devices and fast test throughput, which increases productivity; and the HEAC (HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return Channel) sink test setup, which is independent of the TMDS signal generator, often heavily used for high-speed electrical sink testing.

Agilent has been involved with the HDMI specification since the standard was first established to help companies meet compliance testing and address the challenges presented by this technology. Agilent has developed tools in the physical, data link and protocol layers to meet the challenges posed by the standard. They are designed to reduce development costs, provide accurate test results and simplify the measurement processes for test engineers in the consumer electronics, cable manufacturer and semiconductor industries. ATCs are using Agilent's HDMI platform to test products, identify problems, measure data and determine whether tests have passed or failed.

Agilent's modular HDMI test platform is said to help customers improve the quality of their consumer electronics products and meet the demand of this rapidly advancing market. 'Upgrading our US, Korean and two China facilities will enable us to serve our customers with all HDMI Specification Version 1.4 test services,' said Joseph Lias, president of Simplay Labs. 'Continuing to work with Agilent and its partner Bitifeye Digital Test Solutions ensures that our customers' products can be effectively tested in our ATCs for HDMI 1.4 features such as 3D over HDMI, 4K video format, content type and the new colour spaces,' he added.

The Agilent HDMI 1.4 complete test platform includes: modular HEAC test upgrade using Agilent's 81150A pattern generator platform and Infiniium oscilloscopes; single high-speed N5998A audio/video timing and video picture analyser recommended in the CTS Version 1.4; TMDS electrical test coverage with a single E4887A TMDS signal generator, which covers all high-speed digital tests; and test automation with broadest test coverage using the N5990A software controlling TMDS signal generator, the N5998A, an oscilloscope and complementary Quantum Data 882EA (for EDID, CEC and HDCP test).

It also includes: Infiniium 90000A Series oscilloscopes with N5399A compliance test software; Parbert 81250-based E4887A TMDS signal generator; N5998A protocol/audio/video generator and analyser; N5990A test automation software platform from Bitifeye; E5071C network analyser; and N1080A Type A test-point access fixtures.

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