Beaverton, Ore. — Tektronix, Inc. has launched the AWG7000B and AWG5000B series of arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs). The AWG B series provides a 20% performance boost over many of the prior AWG instruments and continues to be the industry's fastest family of AWGs designed to meet high-speed serial data bus and wideband RF test applications, Tektronix said.
The maximum sample rate has increased from 20 GS/s in the previous generation to 24 GS/s with the AWG7000B series for a more than 4x performance compared to any other AWG, Tektronix said. The AWG7000B is able to generate signals including imperfections such as noise and jitter up to 12 Gbits/s with 35 ps rise time (20/80) for high-speed serial data applications and modulated digital RF/IF signals up to 9.6 GHz for wideband applications including advanced radar.
With 9.6-GHz effective RF output, 10-bit resolution, and sample rates up to 24 GS/s, the AWG7000B is said to be the only AWG that can produce high-speed serial waveforms with real life imperfections including noise, jitter, pre/de-emphasis and multi-level signaling up to 8 Gbits/s.
The company also announced the radar signal creation option -- RDR -- for the RFXpress Software suite, offering greater flexibility in creating pulsed radar waveforms on the AWG7000B and AWG5000B.
RFXpress is used to create and edit RF/IF/IQ signals that are generated by arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs). The AWG7000B supports direct generation of signals in all UWB-WiMedia bandgroups (BG1-BG6) when used with RFXpress and WiMedia options. Option RDR provides the ability to build a radar pulse suite starting from a pulse, to pulse trains, to pulse groups. It supports applications such as resolving range and doppler ambiguity, frequency hopping for electronic counter counter measures (ECCM) and pulse-to-pulse amplitude variation to simulate Swerling target models.
Tektronix also recently announced the launch of SerialXpress software that performs direct synthesis of waveforms for high-speed serial data receiver testing, making it suitable for testing SATA, SAS, PCI-Express, HDMI, DisplayPort and other serial bus technologies operating at speeds up to 8 Gbits/s. SerialXpress manages the creation of these waveforms for high-speed transmission on the AWG7000B Series. Tektronix said the AWG7000B with SerialXpress software is the industry's only one-box high-speed serial data signal generator for receiver stress testing, eliminating the need for multiple instruments and complicated test configurations.
Pricing: U.S. MSRP starts at $28,000 for the 600 MS/s AWG5002B and $65,000 for the 6 GS/s AWG7061B. The RFXpress software package starts at $5,000 U.S. MSRP.
Availability: Immediately for order.
Product information: AWG5000B and AWG7000B Series
Tektronix, www.tektronix.com
