Columbia, MD 20-Jan-2025

Rohde & Schwarz to host the 2025 Digital Debug Design Challenge at DesignCon

Visitors can experience live demonstrations of cutting-edge innovations at DesignCon 2025 and test their skills in the Rohde & Schwarz 'Are you a Genius?' Digital Debug Design Challenge. Moreover, Rohde & Schwarz will host a comprehensive workshop together with leading experts from Samtec, Clear Signal Solutions, University of Colorado Boulder, and Missouri University of Science & Technology.

Rohde & Schwarz, a leading provider of high-performance test and measurement solutions, has announced their plans for the upcoming DesignCon 2025 tradeshow. DesignCon attendees are invited to gain hands-on experience as they test their engineering skills in the ‘Are you a genius’ challenge. Through this live interactive demo, Rohde & Schwarz engineers will offer their technical expertise in signal integrity and power integrity as well as EMI debug to a wide engineering audience.

Additionally, Rohde & Schwarz will deliver a comprehensive workshop in collaboration with leading authorities from industry and academia, including Samtec, University of Colorado Boulder, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Signal Edge Solutions, and Picotest. Scheduled for Wednesday, January 29th, this workshop will consist of seven technical seminars, offered free of cost to DesignCon attendees. The range of topics includes analyzing large signal phenomena and crosstalk in the time and frequency domains, ultrafast impedance measurements of active high current PDNs, via signal integrity challenges in high-speed data channels, as well as others.

Attendees of the DesignCon exhibition are invited to visit the Rohde & Schwarz booth, # 949, where in addition to participating in the ‘Are you a genius challenge,’ they can also view demonstrations featuring real-world applications, including 802.3dj and USB4 cable compliance testing, EMC/SIPI debugging, and multi-channel de-embedding. Additionally, these demos provide attendees the opportunity to see some of the latest in high-performance test and measurement equipment, including the R&S R&S®ZNA , the R&S R&S®MXO 5 , R&S R&S®FSWP , and others.

For those who are unable to attend DesignCon 2025 in person, all the technical seminars will be made accessible online following the conclusion of DesignCon as well as a video summary of the booth demos. For further details on where to access these seminars and for live updates from DesignCon 2025, follow Rohde & Schwarz solutions for Electronic Design on LinkedIn.

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