Tektronix Accelerates Arbitrary Waveform Generators

By DE Editors

Tektronix, Inc. (Beaverton, OR), a provider of test, measurement, and monitoring instrumentation, announced the AWG7000B and AWG5000B Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWG).

The AWG B series provides a 20 percent performance boost over many of the prior AWG instruments and is designed to meet the test needs for high-speed serial data buses and wideband RF applications for creating pulsed radar waveforms. With 9.6 GHz effective RF output, 10-bit resolution, and sample rates up to 24GSps, the AWG7000B is can produce high-speed serial waveforms with real-life imperfections including noise, jitter, pre/de-emphasis, and multi-level signaling up to 8Gbps.

Also, Tektronix announced the radar signal creation option — RDR — for the RFXpress Software suite, offering the ultimate flexibility in creating pulsed radar waveforms on the AWG7000B and AWG5000B.

Tektronix also recently announced the launch of SerialXpress software that performs direct synthesis of waveforms for high-speed serial data receiver testing, making it ideal for testing SATA, SAS, PCI-Express, HDMI, DisplayPort, and other serial bus technologies operating at speeds up to 8Gbps.

RFXpress is used to create and edit RF/IF/IQ signals that are generated by arbitrary waveform generators (AWG). RFXpress exploits the wideband signal generation capabilities of AWGs to reduce the time needed for signal creation and simulation, and reduce overall development and test time.

The AWG7000B is able to generate signals including imperfections such as noise and jitter up to 12Gbps with 35ps rise time (20/80) for high-speed serial data applications and modulated digital RF/IF signals up to 9.6GHz for wideband applications including advanced radar.

For details, contact Tektronix.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.