Engineering services & test solutions provider Granite River Labs (GLR) has partnered with Rohde & Schwarz to open a new state-of-the-art high-speed digital compliance test laboratory in Germany.
Based in Karlsruhe, the now opened laboratory hub aims to support the growing needs of the automotive, medical and industrial automation industries in Europe to validate and troubleshoot high-speed connectivity and charging interfaces.
“Germany is the centre of innovation for Connected Car technologies for automotive networking, infotainment, charging and power management,” said Holger Kunz, president of worldwide services for Granite River Labs. Rohde & Schwarz is an ideal partner that will enable GRL to leverage deep technical expertise and support the entire European product development ecosystem in adopting new technologies.”
With its newly launched R&S RTP164 oscilloscope, GRL’s European lab is able to offer de-bugging & standards-compliant certification of a wide range of high-speed digital technologies, including 1000BASE-T1, MultiGigabit automotive Ethernet, USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB, HDMI, MIPI D-PHY, DDR and more.
According to GLR, the R&S RTP oscilloscope combines signal integrity analysis capabilities with the fastest acquisition rate for debugging in the market.
“We are extremely pleased to partner with GRL, one of the leading test and engineering services companies worldwide, and empower them to offer first-class compliance tests for existing and future high-speed digital communications,” added Dr Nik Dimitrakopoulos, market segment manager automotive at Rohde & Schwarz. “We are proud to contribute to this valuable testing resource serving the automotive and industrial community in Europe.”