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| Event Review: Agilent Digital & Wireless Test Symposium (ADWTS) 2012 |
| Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | |
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With the LTE network rollout beginning to gather momentum, effectively testing and measuring the network is critical; this is the only way that network operators can remain competitive thereby increasing their profitability. WiMAX, LTE, and LTE-Advanced are poised to move to the forefront in the next era of wireless technology. These new-generation mobile network technologies promise to address bandwidth-intensive applications and services and revolutionize the usage of data services along with voice. Targeted at the fast growing digital and wireless test market in India, Agilent Technologies held its global annual technical event - Agilent Digital & Wireless Test Symposium (ADWTS) 2012 at Vivanta by Taj, Bangalore, and Taj Deccan, Hyderabad, on April 17 and April 19 respectively. ADWTS 2012 provided an ideal platform for the buyer community to witness first-hand latest revolutionary technologies, view real-world product demonstrations and presentations, and have interactive dialogues with Agilent application experts and industry stalwarts. The event aimed at bringing together engineers, engineering managers, scientists, HODs/directors, and faculty members from various industry segments like semiconductors, VLSI, embedded industry, aerospace, defense (PSUs, private organizations, defense services - army, navy, and air force), telecom (R&D, manufacturers, and service providers), and academia from engineering institutes. Commencing the thought leadership session on The New World And Its Test Needs, Gautam Awasthi, General Manager-Marketing at Agilent Technologies, elaborated upon the key industries catered to by Agilent's Electronic Measurement Group (EMG). Awasthi asserted, "EMG provides solutions in communications, industrial, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and computer measurement markets. The core technology platforms include oscilloscopes, signal analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers." Outlining the importance of India as a major market for Agilent, he said, "India is identified as a growth engine for Agilent as it has been growing around 20 per cent on an annual basis for some years now. The company has over 19,000 people working for it worldwide and about 20 per cent of them are based in India.  High speed interfaces like USB 2.0/3.0, HDMI 1.4, and SATA 2.0 have various signal integrity challenges like high performance probing, signal integrity margins through de-embedding and equalization, analog, digital, and RF measurement capabilities. Testing the sophisticated RF requirements is complicated and managing high costs is a major challenge.Chethan Kumar YB Lead Engineer, Texas Instruments  The core device categories driving mobile connectivity are feature phones, smartphones, laptops, aircards, netbooks, tablets, and M2M devices. Increasing data rates, proving RoI to end users, and complexity of wireless technology are going to be the critical challenges as we move forward.Sujan Sami  High volume manufacturing and testing have phenomenal challenges. Millions of chips are being manufactured everyday and a continuous testing and monitoring of the same is essential. Integrated chip manufacturing has many complicated procedures, and better test capability is required since one may go wrong in so many ways.Parthasarathy R  The semiconductor industry is worth more than Rs. 1440 crore (USD 300 million), providing tremendous opportunities to the players in the test and measurement industry. Educational institutes like the RV College of Engineering aim to train budding engineers for the changing industry needs by providing them exposure to the latest technologies. Generating in-house talent is integral to the growth of any industry, it is therefore crucial to provide test and measurement solutions to the educational institutions at suitable pricing models.
Communications Today was an exclusive media partner at the event. Prof. B S Satyanarayana,
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