Features & Benefits
- 480 MHz Carrier, High Dynamic
Range RF Signals
- High Dynamic Range IF Signals with Up to
180 MHz Modulation Bandwidth
- 180 MHz Modulation Bandwidth
with –58 dBc SFDR
- Only Stand-alone AWG with 4 Channels
Simplifies Test Setup and Reduces Uncertainty
- RFXpress Software
enables Quick Creation of Digitally Modulated and Radar Signals
- Waveform Sequencing and Subsequencing
- Enables
Creation of Infinite Waveform Loops, Jumps, and Conditional Branches
- Enhance the Ability to Replicate Real-world Signal Behavior
- Dynamic Jump Capability
- Enables the Creation
of Complex Waveforms that Respond to Changing External Environment
- 2 or 4 Differential/Single-ended Outputs provide Testing
Flexibility
- Up to 8 Marker Outputs ideal for System Synchronization
- 28 Digital Output Channels Create Highly Precise Digital Signals
- Deep Memory enables the Creation of Long Complex Waveform Sequences
- Playback of Signals Captured on Scopes and Real-time Spectrum
Analyzers allows for Simulation of Real-world Environments
- Down to 800 ps Resolution Edge Timing Shift Control
- 8,000
Steps Real-time Sequencing Creates Infinite Waveform Loops, Jumps,
and Conditional Branches
- Easy to Use and Learn, Shortens
Test Time
- Convenient Benchtop Form Factor
- Integrated
PC supports Network Integration and provides a Built-in DVD, Removable
Hard Drive, LAN, and USB Ports
Applications
- High-resolution Wireless
Communications and Defense Electronics
- Education and Research
- ADC/DAC Testing
- Mixed-signal Design and Test
- Real-world, Ideal, or Distorted Signal Generation – Including all
the Glitches, Anomalies, and Impairments
- System Synchronization
and Timing Control for Large-scale Test Systems
Industry's
Best Mixed-signal Stimulus Solution for Today's Complex Measurement
Challenges
EVM/Constellation Measurement.
The AWG5000 Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators
delivers the optimal combination of sample rate, vertical resolution,
signal fidelity, and waveform memory length, all in an easy-to-use
self-contained package. The series offers the industry's best solution
to the challenging signal stimulus issues faced by designers verifying,
characterizing, and debugging sophisticated electronic designs.
Meeting the needs of today's design engineers, the series provides
excellent dynamic range over all modulation bandwidths. AWG5000 Series
models, with a 14-bit DAC, sample rates up to 1.2 GS/s, 2 to 4 output
channels, synchronized 4 to 8 digital marker outputs, and 28 channels
of digital data outputs, easily solve the toughest measurement challenges
in wireless communications, defense electronics, digital consumer
product design, data conversion equipment, test system synchronization,
and semiconductor design and test.
The open windows (Windows
7) based instruments are easy, convenient to use, and connect with
peripherals and other third-party software.
The capabilities
of the AWG5000 Series are further enhanced by the addition of key
features:
Equation Editor
The Equation Editor is an
ASCII text editor that uses text strings to create waveforms by loading,
editing, and compiling equation files. The editor provides control
and flexibility to create more complex waveforms using customer-defined
parameters.
Waveform Sequencing and Subsequencing
Real-time sequencing creates infinite waveform loops, jumps, and
conditional branches for longer pattern-length generation suitable
for replicating real-world behavior of serial transmitters.
Dynamic Jump
The Dynamic Jump capability enables the creation
of complex waveforms by enabling the ability to dynamically jump to
any predefined index in a waveform sequence. Users can define up to
16 distinct jump indexes that respond to changing external environments.
LXI Class C
Using the LXI Web Interface, you can connect
to the AWG5000 Series through a standard web browser by simply entering
the AWG's IP address in the address bar of the browser. The web interface
enables viewing of instrument status and configuration, as well as
status and modification of network settings. All web interaction conforms
to the LXI Class C specification.
Wireless I/Q and IF Signal
Generation
The AWG5000 Series provides good SFDR over modulation
bandwidths up to 180 MHz, meeting the demands of IQ and IF signal
generation.
The RFXpress (RFX100) software package utilizes
the raw AWG performance to simplify the creation of RF signals. Supporting
a wide range of modulation schemes, the software is flexible enough
to create either generic or propriety signals for digital communication
systems. Power ramping, frequency hopping, and impairments can easily
be added to generate the desired signal.
Radar Signal Creation is a software module for RFXpress that gives you the ultimate flexibility
in creating pulsed radar waveforms. It gives you the ability to build
your own radar pulse suite starting from pulse-to-pulse trains to
pulse groups. It supports a variety of modulation schemes including
LFM, Barker and Polyphase Codes, User-defined Codes, Step FM, Nonlinear
FM, User-defined FM, and Custom modulation. It also has the ability
to generate pulse trains with staggered PRI to resolve range and doppler
ambiguity, frequency hopping for Electronic Counter-Counter Measures
(ECCM), and pulse-to-pulse amplitude variation to simulate Swerling
target models including antenna scan patterns, clutter, and multipath
effects. RFXpress is a powerful easy-to-use software package to synthesize
IQ and IF signals for arbitrary waveform generators. It runs as an
integral part of the AWG5000 Series or from an external PC.
Environment Signal Generation
Radar signals must coexist
with other commercial standard signals sharing the same spectrum,
yet are still expected to perform with no performance degradation.
This isn't unreasonable given its mission-critical operations. To
meet this expectation, a radar designer has to thoroughly test all
the corner cases at the design/debug stage. The AWG5000 and RFXpress
Environment plug-in offers extreme flexibility to define and create
these worst-case scenarios.
You can specify up to 25 signals
to define your environment, including WiMAX, WiFi, GSM, GSM-EDGE,
EGPRS 2A, EGPRS2B, CDMA, W-CDMA, DVB-T, Noise, and CW Radar. This
plug-in also allows you to seamlessly import signals from other RFXpress
plug-ins (including Radar, Generic Signal, etc.), as well as from
Matlab® and from Tektronix spectrum analyzers and oscilloscopes,
into your environment. You can also configure PHY parameters of your
standard-specific signals. You can define the carrier frequency, power,
start time, and duration for all the signals in your environment,
so you have full control over the way these signals interact/interfere
with each other.
Mixed-signal Generation
Mixed-signal test by TDS/TLA iView.
AWG5012 and AWG5002 models have an optional 28 digital output channels
with high-resolution edge placement, making them a great solution
for digital signal generation applications, such as digital design
and validation, system synchronization, and ADC/DAC testing.