Date: 06/01 18:21 EST
TEKTRONIX NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS
Accelerates Development of Rambus Memory Systems
- Integrated Solution Enables New Computer Architecture Designs -
BEAVERTON, Ore., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK)
today introduced a suite of new instruments designed to work together
to provide a complete solution for the most challenging leading-edge
digital design applications, including Rambus(R) Memory Systems and
next-generation microprocessors. The new integrated solution offers
digital design and embedded software engineers robust acquisition
performance, customized measurements and analysis that enables and
simplifies the debugging, verification and characterization of today's
newest electronic designs.
Tektronix' integrated tool set is composed of new performance-leading
instruments: The TLA 714 portable and TLA 720 benchtop logic analyzers,
the TDS694C digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) and complementary
connection devices. The instruments were designed to work together to
provide specialized features and optimized performance and a complete
tool set for the entire design team.
Rambus technology -- which is rapidly gaining acceptance as the memory
standard for use in consumer electronics, portables, communications
systems, multimedia, and consumer digital video products -- delivers
more than ten times the performance of conventional memory standards.
Intel, with the endorsement of leading PC OEMs, is leading the way for
its use in performance desktop PCs by the third quarter of 1999.
Currently, eight of the world's top-10 semiconductor companies license
Rambus technology and seven of the world's top PC makers have shipped
systems using the technology.
"A digital design engineer operates in an environment of accelerating
technological change under extreme time-to-market conditions," said
Rick Wills, president, Tektronix' Measurement Business Division. "The
Rambus adoption, for example, is perhaps the single largest, and most
quickly adopted, transition in memory performance the industry has ever
seen. Tektronix is at the forefront of implementing these new
technologies, by providing these designers with integrated solutions
featuring the superior measurement and analysis capabilities needed for
leading-edge digital design."
About Tektronix
Tektronix is a portfolio of measurement, color printing and video
and networking businesses dedicated to applying technology excellence
to customer challenges. Tektronix is headquartered in Wilsonville,
Oregon, and has operations in 26 countries outside the United States.
Founded in 1946, the company had revenues of $2.1 billion in fiscal
1998.
Tektronix is a registered trademark of Tektronix, Inc. Rambus is
a registered trademark of Rambus Inc. All other trade names referenced
are the service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
CONTACT: Beth Daniels of Tektronix Measurement Business Division,
503-627-5150, fax: 503-627-3678, bethany.f.daniels@tek.com
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Tektronix Measurement Business Division, 503-627-5150, fax:
503-627-3678, bethany.f.daniels@tek.com/
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