Philips Connectivity Plugfest 03 goes live in July 2011

Royal Philips Electronics launches the third edition of Connectivity Plugfest with a focus on HDMI & HDMI CEC, USB, Wi-fi, DLNA/UPnP and Bluetooth. ‘Philips Connectivity Plugfest 03’ to be held at Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore, India, between 26 - 28 July, 2011 .Philips partners with Tektronix Inc., one of the leading companies in test and measurement instrumentation, as its technology support partner for the event.


Description: Plugfest 3The three day technology carnival invites companies, associations and professionals from Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor, PC, Test and Measurement, Peripheral and Accessory domains to test the Interoperability of their product with the products developed by other companies. It is an inimitable occasion for organizations to authenticate new design platforms and products with other participants and to symbolize technical excellence. They can also test their devices with products used as reference devices at Philips Interoperability & Certification Centre and can book a slot with well-known test tool and equipment manufacturers taking part in the event.

According to Nataraj Kumar, Director, Consumer Lifestyle, Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore, ‘Last year we had 31 companies who showcased 90 devices focusing on connectivity technologies in contrast with the first Plugfest which attracted 15 companies. So the excitement is surely catching up and we are expecting more prolific participation this time.”

“Enabling innovations, Tektronix has been part of the Connectivity PlugFest three times in a row and find it immensely satisfying to support the knowledge transfer platform. This tech fest is one of those rare junctures where you meet human brains and technology that is equally intellectual said David Carew Jones, Pacific Marketing Director at Tektronix Inc. Participants can register and test their products at the "Tek Experience Zone" which will be set up at the event and also interact with our experts, he added.

Registrations are invited for PLUGFEST – 03, companies both local and outside India can participate

Registration Contact Details:

Sai Venkat B: (saivenkat.b@tektronix.com)


About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs more than 116,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of 25.4 billion in 2010 the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal well-being and pleasure with strong leadership positions in flat TV, shaving, grooming, skin care, portable audio & video entertainment and oral healthcare.

About Tektronix:

For more than sixty years, engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a leading supplier of test instrumentation for engineers focused on electronic design, manufacturing, and advanced technology development. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at www.tektronix.com.

Tektronix meets design goals with 8HP SiGe Technology in 30+ GHz Oscilloscope Development

Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that validation of ASICs designed in IBM’s 8HP silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS Specialty Foundry technology are exceeding target specifications for a planned new performance oscilloscope capable of greater than 30 GHz bandwidth across multiple channels while minimizing noise found in older chip sets.


The new oscilloscope platform will meet electronic designers’ needs for more accurate characterization of high speed serial data beyond 10 Gb/s, and enhance optical modulation analysis of 100GbE where complex signaling requires accurate bit capture.

“This represents our first commercial integration of 8HP technology and clearly shows the latest generation of SiGe is delivering significant performance differentiation to the industry’s most demanding oscilloscope applications. This year, we will be delivering a new series of performance oscilloscopes with the lowest noise and class-leading signal acquisition performance across multiple channels,” said Roy Siegel, general manager, Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. “IBM’s SiGe technology has long delivered the performance and reliability our customers demand and as our lab demonstration indicates, this will continue well into the future.”

IBM’s 8HP technology is a 130 nanometer (nm) SiGe bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) process that offers 2x performance over the previous generation. SiGe technology leverages highly-reliable and mature fabrication processes associated with the 50-year-old silicon industry, but with performance levels comparable to that of exotic materials such as Indium Phosphide (InP) and Gallium Arsenide (GaAs). Unlike those alternatives, SiGe BiCMOS provides access to high-speed bipolar transistors on the same die as standard CMOS, enabling a class of circuitry which marries extreme performance with large-scale integration. It is this union which has allowed Tektronix to reliably deliver feature-rich, high-speed data acquisition systems for over a decade.

“As Tektronix’s lab demonstration makes very apparent, IBM’s 8HP SiGe technology continues to deliver a winning combination of speed, accuracy and integration required for high-end instrumentation,” said Regina Darmoni, Director, Specialty Foundry, IBM.

Initial Tektronix product deployments using 8HP SiGe technology are expected later this year. Customers should contact their Tektronix account manager to discuss future migration plans and learn more about the Tektronix Performance Oscilloscope Investment Protection Program.


About Tektronix

For more than sixty years, engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a leading supplier of test instrumentation for engineers focused on electronic design, manufacturing, and advanced technology development. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at http://www.tektronix.com/

New Oscilloscope from tektronix

Tektronix, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, announced two new versions of its performance oscilloscope families ranging from 500 MHz to 8 GHz designed to help embedded system design engineers troubleshoot their designs faster than ever before. The new offerings include the DPO7000C Series and new 4-, 6- and 8-GHz models in the MSO/DPO/DSA70000C Series. The company also announced its expanded support for MIPI testing with new serial decode solutions for MIPI® Alliance’s CSI-2 and DSI specifications.


These new Tektronix instruments reflect the new reality of electronics design: engineering teams have less time to design products than before, while each engineer’s area of responsibility is increasing. Given the rapid pace of innovation, they simply lack the time to become experts in all areas. As a result, they must increasingly rely on test tools to provide time saving features that allow them to confidently find and solve complex problems.

“The new series of oscilloscopes we’re announcing today provide industry leading tools to speed debug efforts of serial buses found in many embedded system designs,” said Roy Siegel, general manager, Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. “We continue to provide industry-best solutions – such as MIPI serial analysis – to meet the latest challenges. And, we continue to drive innovation on our most popular scopes to support the latest architectures and deliver the comprehensive tools our customers need.”

DPO7000C Series

The DPO7000C Series offers engineers an efficiency tool that combines analysis functionality for many applications into a single oscilloscope. It includes time-saving serial analysis solutions that enable designers to focus on solving design problems using robust tools for every stage of debug, from discovering that a problem exists to capturing it, then searching long records for all instances and analyzing to find root cause. With tools like the One Touch Jitter Wizard, even the most complex testing tasks are simplified and automated.

The new series are now available with the latest Microsoft Windows 7 operating system for easier integration with data networks, intuitive operation and faster boot up times. These products also feature a faster compute platform that provides quicker time to answer – up to 3x faster time to answer on DPOJET Jitter measurements for example. They also provide full LXI Class C support for easier integration into automated test stations.

DPO7000C Series offers the industry’s most comprehensive serial bus analysis with robust decode, trigger and search support for the most popular embedded system buses including I2C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, USB 2.0, MIPI CSI-2 and DSI specifications.

New MSO/DPO/DSA70000C Models

The MSO/DPO/DSA70000C Series provides a deeper level of analysis on the most perplexing challenges in high-performance design and verification for RF/microwave, serial data and semiconductor characterization. This comprehensive high-performance platform supports trigger, decode and search capability for popular embedded system buses along with high speed timing analysis and compliance packages for standards including DDR3, USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0 and others.

For embedded engineers that require performance beyond the 3.5 GHz available in the DPO7000C, the new 4-, 6- and 8- GHz models of the MSO/DPO/DSA70000C Series represent the ideal fit. The latest models incorporate a new, faster compute platform, deliver LXI Class C compliance and use the Windows 7 operating system.

For the MSO70000C Series, new P6750 logic probes offer high density DMAXTM footprint signal access on up to 16 logic channels. Improved debug capability with Advanced Search & Mark, along with DPOJET Essentials are now standard on all instruments

Expanded MIPI Support

MIPI® Alliance specifications are gaining in use by manufacturers of wireless mobile devices as the communications bus between main components such as embedded controllers, cameras and displays. These specifications help smartphone manufacturers reduce time-to-market and device integration costs while taking advantage of richer feature sets with higher bit rates.

Tektronix now offers expanded support for the MIPI specifications with protocol decode and search for MIPI CSI-2 and DSI serial buses. This complements the broad range of testing capability for the emerging MIPI Alliance test requirements including MIPI D-PHY and MIPI M-PHY support on Tektronix DPO7000C & MSO/DPO/DSA70000C Series oscilloscopes. Tektronix is also announcing a TekExpress automation toolset for 100% one-button compliance testing of MIPI D-PHY TX measurements. In addition, Tektronix also provides DigRFv.4 logic testing with TLA7000 Series Logic Analyzers.

“Testing is a critical component to the adoption and mass deployment of any specification,” said Joel Huloux, Chairman of the Board of MIPI Alliance. “Having numerous products and services – such as these from Tektronix – improves time-to-market for companies wishing to implement MIPI specifications.”

About Tektronix

For more than sixty years, engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a leading supplier of test instrumentation for engineers focused on electronic design, manufacturing, and advanced technology development. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at http://www.tektronix.com/

New RF Video Network Monitoring Solution from Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc., the market leader in broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, today announced a new solution for monitoring ISDB-Tb broadcasts from the moment video content enters the network until broadcast, helping to ensure superior quality of service (QoS) for viewers. With advanced capabilities like remote monitoring and diagnosis, it helps broadcasters deliver reliable services across massive service areas while minimizing the time experts need to spend in the field tracking down the source of problems.


With the new RFM220 ISDB-Tb RF Channel Monitor, Tektronix is delivering the next generation of monitoring solutions for ISDB-Tb that can not only monitor the physical layer RF signal for error detection but also the underlying MPEG video transport stream. This helps engineers quickly determine whether problems are occurring in the physical layer – which could require time-consuming travel to a remote location – or in stream syntax or metadata.

“Today’s digital content goes through considerable processing before it gets delivered to the end-user. Monitoring the RF signal and the underlying MPEG transport is critical to ensuring the best possible experience for the viewer,” said Eben Jenkins, general manager of the Video Product Line, Tektronix. “At Tektronix we are committed to providing our customers around the world with the relevant solutions they need to solve real world challenges. In the case of ISDB-Tb, remote monitoring and troubleshooting is a critical need that we now fulfill.”

Like similar standards being adopted around the world, ISDB-Tb services are designed to deliver digital TV, HDTV and mobile TV channels to consumer TV sets and mobile/handheld devices. As an advanced standard, it requires an advanced, state-of-the-art monitoring solution. The new Tektronix RF monitoring solution offers extensive capabilities including:

• High performance RF measurements

• MER measurement performance to 37dB

• Channel Impulse Response display and SFN window measurements

• Constellation displays

• Detailed MPEG transport stream monitoring

• Extensive alarms, event logs and 7-day trending of RF metrics

• Complete end-to-end monitoring solution for isolating problems in the DVBS2 Receive-Remux-ISDB-Tb Transmit video signal flow

• A consolidated view of all the monitoring probes across the entire network to give operators a snapshot of the current state of the whole network

About Tektronix

For more than sixty years, engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a leading supplier of test instrumentation for engineers focused on electronic design, manufacturing and advanced technology development. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at www.tektronix.com.