October 20, 2014, Santa Rosa, Calif. – Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that it has provided CAN FD (Flexible Data Rate) and SENT (Single Sided Nibble Transmission) decoding for its InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes. Trigger the option. New options enable engineers to more efficiently complete CAN FD and SENT serial bus commissioning, making them ideal for automotive measurement applications.

 

CAN FD is a higher performance next-generation serial bus protocol for automotive control and fault diagnostic applications. It allows engineers to reduce bus load to increase throughput and meet the demanding requirements of automotive applications. The “classic” CAN 2.0 serial bus is based on an event-driven architecture with a maximum actual transfer rate of 1 Mbps. However, for the CAN FD bus, the data transfer rate per frame has been increased and the maximum payload has been increased from 8 bytes to 64 bytes. Compared to the time-triggered serial bus protocol (eg FlexRay), the transition from CAN 2.0 to CAN FD technology represents an easier and smoother advantage.

 

For the integrity (physical layer) detection and debugging of high-speed serial bus signals using an oscilloscope, it is important to have a higher rate of CAN FD. Keysight's latest CAN FD triggering and decoding options for the InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes are based on hardware decoding technology to achieve the industry's fastest decoding update rate. Faster waveform and decode update rates increase the chances of the oscilloscope capturing random and sporadic errors. The detection and removal of bus errors in the design is an important part of ensuring the safety of the vehicle system.

 

In addition to the application of hardware decoding technology to quickly capture sporadic bus errors, the 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes offer the industry's most comprehensive CAN FD error triggering and analysis. This includes decoding, accumulating, and triggering (by frame ID filtering) for specific errors, such as bit stuffing errors, geometric bit errors, CRC errors, acknowledgment errors, and error frames.

 

SENT is a point-to-point serial bus that connects sensors to the ECU. Options for InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series Oscilloscopes SENT decodes serial data on fast and slow channels and offers a wide range of triggering options, such as triggering different error conditions. The InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscope is currently the only oscilloscope that can trigger a SENT bus signal.

 

For more information on the CAN FD and SENT options for the InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes, visit www.keysight.com/find/scopes-auto. To view product images, please visit www.keysight.com/find/DSOX4AUTO_images.

 

The full range of Keysight oscilloscope products is available in a variety of form factor sizes covering the 20 MHz to 90 GHz bandwidth range.

 

For a guide to the CAN FD version 1.0 published by Robert Bosch GmbH, please visit www.bosch-semiconductors.de/media/pdf_1/canliteratur/can_fd_spec.pdf.

 

To learn more about SAE International's SENT specification (SAE J2716), visit www.sae.org.

 

US pricing and listing information

 

The DSOX4AUTO trigger and decode option for CAN, CAN-dbc, CAN FD, and LIN buses is priced at $1,530. Customers who already have the Keysight 4000 X-Series oscilloscope and DSOX4AUTO option can upgrade the oscilloscope to the latest firmware version for free to get CAN FD support.

 

The DSOX4SENSOR trigger and decode option for the SENT bus is priced at $1,530.

 

The Keysight InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscope with one of these new options starts at $7,150.

 

All products are available now.

 

About Keysight

 

Agilent Technologies announced on September 19, 2013 that it plans to split the company into two listed companies in a tax-free manner. The new company is named Keysight Technologies, Inc. Keysight has been operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilent since August 1, 2014. It is expected that the two companies will complete the split in early November 2014. Keysight will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KEYS.

 

Keysight is a global leader in electronic measurement technology and markets, dedicated to driving continuous innovation in wireless communications, modularity and software solutions, with a focus on delivering superior measurement experiences to customers. Keysight provides electronic measuring instruments, systems and related software, as well as software design tools and services for the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronic devices. For more information on Keysight, please visit www.keysight.com.

 

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