Agilent Technologies ships LXI IEEE-1588 demonstration kits to members of LXI Consortium

Agilent Technologies ships LXI IEEE-1588 demonstration kits to members of LXI Consortium

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is shipping LXI IEEE-1588 demonstration kits to members of the LXI Consortium, the group of leading test and measurement companies managing the LXI (LAN eXtension for Instruments) standard. Consortium members have requested the kits to help design interoperable instruments and to further develop the IEEE-1588 standard used in LXI.

Kits support development of standard for interoperable modular electronic instruments

Agilent Laboratories, the company's central research organization, developed the kit platform for its research on LXI, the LAN-based modular platform standard for automated test systems. The platform enables several instruments to synchronize their clocks to within a potential 200 nanoseconds(1) over a suitable Ethernet configuration. This result is 10,000 times better than synchronization based on the network time protocol (NTP), a software standard used to synchronize clocks over Ethernet.

“IEEE 1588 is a key part of the LXI specification, and the LXI IEEE-1588 demonstration kits give members a big head start toward implementing it,” said Bob Rennard, LXI Consortium president. “The kits demonstrate Agilent's commitment to developing the LXI standard and supporting the collaboration of the LXI Consortium. All members of the consortium benefit from the ongoing research of Agilent Labs.”