M1 Oscilloscope Tools v5.01 Now Available

Advanced Waveform Exploration

Following up on the tremendous positive reception M1 OT v5 had at DesignCon 2008 with Hidden Anomaly Location, ASA is now releasing M1 OT v5.01. This latest revision includes many new features, the most notable of which are the implementation of a variety of Advanced Waveform Exploration shortcuts. Wielding only a mouse, the user can access a variety of methods for zooming, panning, and even THROWING their waveforms (ASA President Mike Williams personally loves this capability) to quickly and precisely navigate through their data.  A significant number of keyboard navigation shortcuts have also been added to enable zooming and panning without even needing the mouse.  This is definitely NOT your father's oscilloscope controls!

 

 

 

A new video has been posted on the ASA website alongside our existing collection of highly useful training videos. This video demonstrates some of these new features and demonstrates strikingly just how fast you can now drill down to see a particular event of interest, or zoom back out to get the big picture. A detailed list of all the new keyboard and mouse commands can be found in the M1 Help file.

Improved Compliance Testing

The easy to use, graphical ScriptBuilder capability is the foundation of compliance testing within M1 OT, although it's just as useful at increasing a user's productivity through automation of common and/or repetitive measurements. In an effort to make it even more user friendly for our ever increasing number of compliance test users, we have added some additional messaging and made other small changes to create a more efficient workflow and make creating your own automations as painless as possible. One of these improvements is in the AutoValidate capability - ScriptBuilder is now even better able to monitor your script as it is created and warn you about potential problems that should be resolved.  It's just a small part of ASA's thrust towards increasing the amount of embedded intelligence in the product.

ASA has tests for many popular standards available for free download from our website for any user of M1 OT. The newest additions to this growing collection are DisplayPort, DVI, and DDR3. We've also upgraded our PCI Express Script to be compliant with the 2.0 standard.  Remember, if you need a test that we haven't written yet, you can use M1 and ScriptBuilder to create it yourself in a matter of hours.

Deep Memory Support

If you've ever used M1 OT or scope software on very deep memory measurements, you know how difficult it can be. Recently we've had a customer requiring very deep memory analysis and it gave us a chance to examine how we handle really large chunks of memory out of the scope. As a result, we have significantly improved the management of system resources when handling large records and have also come up with some really neat ideas on how to improve deep memory handling even further, and in directions you may not have imagined possible. You should expect some more from us on that soon.

ASA Saves the Day

After a visit to one of our customers in Texas, we were presented with a very specific problem from one of their engineers. After discussing the issue with him a bit, we discovered that he had been trying to solve this particular issue for nearly a year. Since ASA is always willing to take on a challenge, we offered to see if we could provide a solution for him. At the same time, one of the scope manufacturers had made a similar offer…so the race was on.

One of our engineers got on the phone with the customer and learned his way around the problem. It turns out the customer was trying to make a very unusual measurement, and was having a hard time making it accurately. Due to the esoteric nature of this problem, M1 OT didn't have this measurement among the over 250 that are built-in. Thankfully, M1 does have a simple framework for adding new measurements, and our Chief Engineer began coding the measurement immediately. Before the day was over, he had a measurement ready to go. Upon testing, our customer realized we had nailed the problem, and that M1, along with this new measurement, provided the solution he needed.

 

Mike Williams, president of ASA, was extremely impressed by his engineering team, saying, "Our ability to turn on a dime and go the extra mile for our customers continues to amaze me."

Employment Opportunities at ASA

ASA Corp. is currently seeking imaginative electrical or computer engineering programmers to join our team. These individuals should have solid programming and test equipment experience, but more importantly, be willing to bring energy and the passion to dominate the industry to ASA.

ASA is also seeking an exceptional individual to provide the necessary care and feeding of our domestic and international sales channels. Experience in consulting work selling test and measurement equipment is a minimum, as is at least 7 years in sales and channel management. Experience with transactional selling methods is a strong plus.

ASA is also looking to fill the position of Marketing and Public Relations. Qualified candidates will have a degree in Communications, Marketing or related field.

If you're interested in employment at ASA click here for more information or send an e-mail with your resume to: jobs@Amherst-Systems.com.