LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2012

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its electronic test equipment will be used by . in a demonstration of its beam-forming technology for the next generation of communication and radar products at the in Las Vegas, Jan. 10-13. NXP will demonstrate a multi-Gbps wireless link based on the Wireless Gigabit Alliance and the IEEE 802.11ad specifications.

The NXP demonstration will include equipment from Agilent, the only commercial provider of signal-creation and modulation-analysis software and hardware for the WiGig and IEEE 802.11ad physical-layer specifications. The test equipment will provide signal creation and analysis capabilities to complement NXP's RFIC chipset, on display in Las Vegas.

NXP's receiver front-end is a phased-array system with eight antennas and eight RX paths. The antenna array is implemented on a low-cost laminate, and active circuitry is realized in CMOS 45-nm technology. Electronic beam-forming increases the link distance by about three times compared to a single antenna system, while at the same time providing broad angular scanning.

NXP's technology enables highly integrated, low-power, beam-forming and beam-steering systems for increased WiGiG/802.11ad room coverage. Next-generation car-radar systems will also profit from these core developments, enabling integration of CMOS phased-array millimeter-wave circuits with IF, ADC and DSP blocks into a highly integrated, low-power, car-radar signal processor.

"We are pleased to provide test hardware and software capabilities to support the demonstration of NXP's core technology," said Guy S