Tektronix has acquired TDA Systems, a test software company.

TDA Systems from Lake Oswego, Oregon, is a provider of interconnect analysis software tools. TDA Systems, which has provided testing software to the electronics industry -- including Tektronix -- for high speed serial data, will be fully integrated with the company's sampling scope product line.

TDA Systems has been a successful partner of Tektronix for many years, said John Taggart, General Manager, Electro Optical Product Line, Tektronix. "Both companies have provided customers with complete solutions by integrating TDA's time domain analysis software tools with Tektronix' market leading time domain solutions to help customers push the performance limits of digital systems designs, shorten product time to market, and achieve design objectives more cost effectively and efficiently. The acquisition of TDA will enable Tektronix to further leverage product and technology synergies to accelerate development and delivery of more complete solutions to our customers who are working in the emerging high-speed serial data application space."

The TDA software is already integrated with Tektronix' measurement instrumentation such as the TDS8200 sampling oscilloscope. With full support of the TDR measurement system, the TDA software provides integrated simulate- and-compare links between SPICE / IBIS simulators and measurements, and includes interfaces to electromagnetic field solvers and other analytical interconnect model generation tools. The acquisition of TDA Systems will enable Tektronix to provide total solutions including signal acquisition and complex analysis for complex networks used to carry fast serial data.

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