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News Release from: Aeroflex | Subject: 3020A and 3030A
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 August 2005
Signal generator and digitiser join PXI
range
Aeroflex has unveiled two new PXI modules and a new software suite that expands range of use, speed of operation, accuracy and flexibility of its PXI test systems.
Building on the success of the company's PXI 3000 series RF test systems, Aeroflex has unveiled two new PXI modules and a new software suite that expands range of use, speed of operation, accuracy and flexibility of its PXI test systems New products are the Aeroflex 3020A 2.7GHz digital RF signal generator, the 3030A 3GHz RF digitiser with 33MHz bandwidth and a cdma2000 reverse link software measurement library
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Aeroflex 3020A digital RF signal generator introduces new features that improve its range, speed, accuracy and flexibility for RF manufacturing and design verification.
Together with the Aeroflex 3010 RF synthesiser, the Aeroflex 3020A forms a compact 3U-high precision digital RF signal generator complete with integrated dual-channel AWG that occupies just three PXI slots.
The frequency range of the Aeroflex 3020A has been extended to 2.7GHz to cover the entire UMTS spectrum allocation.
Modulation modes are extended to include internal AM/FM and IQ vector modulation.
List mode and arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) file sequencing modes enable the user to set frequency, level and AWG waveforms much faster and with greater flexibility-especially important in high-speed manufacturing.
AWG sequencing enables long files to be generated and a new option that offers analogue IQ inputs and outputs allows the Aeroflex 3020A to be used for baseband stimulus generation as well as modulated RF generation.
An external TTL trigger input adds to the broad range of available trigger sources.
The new Aeroflex 3030A RF digitiser along with the Aeroflex 3010 RF synthesiser combine to make a compact 3U-high precision RF digitiser that occupies just three PXI slots.
Together with measurement application software, they provide superior vector signal analysis of RF signals.
Ideal for manufacturing or design verification for RF systems, the Aeroflex 3030A now adds extended digitiser bandwidth up to 33MHz to cover emerging communications standards.
Other improvements to the current Aeroflex 3030 RF digitiser allow the module to perform faster, more accurately and with greater flexibility, including more comprehensive triggering functions and a wider selection of sampling rates.
Also announced today is new measurement software for the Aeroflex 3000 series, the cdma2000 Measurement Suite.
This Active X control software measurement library is used in conjunction with the Aeroflex 3030 RF digitiser to provide measurement functions for power, spectrum and modulation analysis of cdmaOne and cdma2000 reverse link transmissions.
The Aeroflex 3020A digital RF signal generator is priced at US $8596.
Option 01 analogue IQ inputs and outputs is priced at US $959.
The Aeroflex 3030A RF digitiser is priced at US $12,940.
First deliveries of the 3020A and 3030A modules will be the end of September 2005, and thereafter 6 weeks on receipt of order.
The cdma2000 Measurement Suite is priced at US $3893 with availability beginning in September 2005.
Delivery is initially eight weeks on receipt of order.
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