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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe | Subject: 89601A VSA software
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 January 2008
Signal analysis software runs on cPCI
digitisers
Software provides rapid data transfers from the digitisers to the host, reducing measurement times and maximising user productivity.
Agilent Technologies has upgraded its popular 89600 Series vector signal analysis software (VSA) to interface with its Acqiris 10 and 12bit CompactPCI broadband digitisers, enabling significantly increased data-measurement accuracy The newly released version 8.0 of the Agilent 89601A VSA software provides rapid data transfers from the digitisers to the host, reducing measurement times and maximising user productivity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It also provides a host of development tools to assist system engineers in troubleshooting and evaluating broadband signals.
The 10bit digitisers, the DC222, DC252 and DC282, offer a bandwidth up to 2GHz and a very large memory of up to 1Gsample in single-channel mode.
Dual-channel mode offers enhanced measurement performance with up to 512Msample of data acquired per channel at a bandwidth up to 1.5625GHz.
The large bandwidth combined with expansive memory make these digitisers ideal for applications in radar, UWB communication and multicarrier power amplifier (MCPA) evaluation.
For smaller bandwidth applications requiring 12bit vertical resolution, Agilent offers the dual-channel DC440 and DC438.
This digitiser family offers an outstanding signal-to-noise ratio, a high number of effective bits at a bandwidth of up to 100MHz and up to 8Msample of memory in both single- and dual-channel mode.
The digitisers are ideal for applications that require very high dynamic range broadband analysis, such as lidar and I/Q demodulation.
The Agilent VSA software runs on either an embedded CompactPCI PC or on a PC connected via a PCI bridge to the external cPCI crate.
With its link to the Agilent Acqiris CompactPCI high-speed digitisers, VSA 8.0 extends its number of supported platforms to more than 30 Agilent instruments and adds the PCI bus as a new bus supported by the software.
The Acqiris 10bit (U1065A) and 12bit (U1066A) CompactPCI broadband digitisers are available now.
Pricing for a 10bit digitiser starts at US $23,710.
The starting price for the 12bit digitiser is US $8200.
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