Agilent Technologies Inc. launched the N6465A test application for embedded multimedia card (eMMC) compliance test in response to a new version of the JEDEC eMMC specification.
In the summer of 2012, JEDEC published the JESD84-B451: Embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC), Electrical Standard (Version 4.51). eMMC is an embedded non-volatile memory system that incorporates flash memory as well as a flash memory controller. Part of the idea behind it is to unload low-level flash memory management from the host processor, freeing up resources.
Although eMMC is poised to get some serious competition from the new universal flash storage (UFS) specification, IHS iSuppli projects that eMMC will maintain market share in mobile memory applications, at least for the short term, with shipments expected to hit 520.3 million units in 2012 (a 37 percent increase) and forecast to reach 711.1 million units in 2013.
Those levels of volume could surely benefit from an automated compliance test solution. IAgilent's new N6465A application works with the company’s Infiniium 9000, 9000A, 9000X and 9000Q series of oscilloscopes. With it, engineers can test, debug and characterize physical-layer properties of eMMC memory to ensure compliance with the JEDEC JESD84-B451 specification. The application automatically sets up the oscilloscope to trigger on the correct signal to run each test, and then it generates an HTML report at the conclusion of the test. The report compares the results with the specified test limit and indicates how closely the device passes or fails each test.
