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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Wins DesignVision Award for J-BERT N4903A with Built-in Clock Data Recovery

Business Wire, Jan 30, 2007

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that it is honored to win the DesignVision Award 2007 in the test and measurement category for its J-BERT N4903A, a high-performance serial BERT with an industry-first built-in, compliant and tunable clock data recovery (CDR).

The International Engineering Consortium (IEC), which presents the DesignVision Awards, acknowledges individuals and companies that offer innovative and unique applications, products, technologies and services of impact to the semiconductor industry.

IEC President John Janowiak commented, "Our DesignVision Awards honor those catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business and academia, completely in line with the IEC's mission. We are delighted to recognize the DesignVision finalists and share the best design advancements and innovators with the entire industry."

The J-BERT N4903A is the only complete jitter tolerance test solution. It provides integrated and calibrated jitter sources for stressed eye testing of gigabit receivers. The new compliant and tunable CDR is also integrated into the J-BERT box. This enables engineers in characterization and validation labs to get precise jitter budget results for clock-less devices. Engineers save test setup time by using J-BERT's new library of compliant CDR settings for many popular standards, such as PCI Express(r), Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA), Fibre Channel, fully buffered DIMM, Common Electrical interface (CEI), 10 Gb Ethernet and XFP/XFI.

"We are pleased to be honored by the IEC for the J-BERT N4903A with CDR," said Sigi Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Digital Verification Solutions Division. "Agilent continues to demonstrate its leadership by continuously introducing innovative physical layer test solutions."

Finalists were chosen by a panel of 96 industry-leading judges from DesignCon's Technical Program Committee. The complete list of finalists and winners is available at www.designcon.com/2007/exhibition/designvision_2.html. Agilent received its award at today's DesignCon awards ceremony in Santa Clara, Calif.

More information of the Agilent N4903A J-BERT is available at www.agilent.com/find/jbert. Photos of the product are available at www.agilent.com/find/n4903_images.> About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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