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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: AWG7000 Series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2006
Waveform generators claim speed record
Series of arbitrary waveform generators are billed as the world's fastest, designed to meet the test needs for high-speed serial databuses and wideband digital RF devices.
New from Tektronix, the AWG7000 Series of arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) are billed as the world's fastest, designed to meet the test needs for high-speed serial databuses and wideband digital RF devices With 5.8GHz bandwidth, 10bit resolution, and sample rates up to 20Gsample/s, the AWG7000 is the only AWG that can produce high-speed real-life waveforms including pre/de-emphasis and multilevel signalling up to 10Gbit/s
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AWG7000 is the fastest, most capable, and versatile signal source available for high-speed serial and wideband RF signals.
Design engineers who are developing new technologies such as SATAIII, PCI Express 2, 2x XAUI, HDMI 1.3, ultrawideband (UWB), the latest storage devices and radar need to process large amounts of data at faster speeds, broader bandwidths and higher frequencies, and often involving the latest high-speed standards.
An AWG is used by engineers in design and test processes to create, replicate and generate either ideal, distorted or "real-life" signals including noise, jitter, glitches and other imperfections to assist with prototype, debug, verification, and standards compliance for the latest serial data or wideband digital RF designs.
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"Engineers have told us that they need greater performance, capability, and versatility from their signal source to keep pace with the latest technology", said Mike Higashi, Vice President, Signal Sources Product Line, Tektronix.
"Tektronix designed the AWG7000 to minimise complexity for users and to provide the performance needed to match increasing serial datarates and the advance of wideband digital RF technologies".
"The AWG7000 can create, replicate or generate any signal and can generate up to six signals simultaneously".
"No other AWG can match the performance, capability and flexibility of the AWG7000".
"The AWG7000 will assist engineers with the development of better products and with a lower investment of time and money".
The AWG7000 Series is based on a new high performance platform that incorporates a new digital-to-analogue (DAC) convertor to produce greater precision and performance.
The DAC uses an IBM silicon germanium (SiGe) 7HP process that increases vertical resolution and sample rate to establish new performance benchmarks for signal fidelity and timing resolution.
With the flexibility to create, replicate and generate virtually any type of signal, the AWG7000 is the most capable and versatile signal source available.
The sample rate has increased from 4.2Gsample/s in previous generation products to 20Gsample/s with the AWG7000 Series, providing engineers with more than 4x the performance compared with any other AWG.
The AWG7000 is able to generate signals including imperfections up to 10Gbit/s for high-speed serial data applications and modulated digital RF/IF signals up to 5GHz for wideband applications including advanced radar.
The combination of industry-leading AWG7000 performance attributes matches the test needs of new generations of high-speed serial and wideband digital RF technologies.
"Engineering is constantly under pressure to develop products faster and more cost effectively", said David Erisman, Chief Technology Officer, X-Com Systems.
"As system designs become more advanced and complex, the ability to create accurate signals in a realistic test environment becomes increasingly important".
"The user interface and waveform development tools of the AWG7000 enable engineers to easily generate, very early in the development process, the exact waveform, data stream or mixed signal needed for testing design concepts before committing them to hardware".
"The Tektronix AWG7000 provides breakthrough performance and more capabilities and ease of use than any signal source we have seen".
"The AWG7000 will definitely improve our ability to develop leading products and solutions for our customers".
Tektronix user experience designers researched signal source customer usage patterns and needs to determine requirements for the AWG7000.
Based on this research, the AWG7000 is equipped with a 10.4in LCD touch screen colour display and an intuitive user interface employing Windows XP to help engineers be more productive.
Connectivity features include GPIB and Gigabit Ethernet.
The units come with one or two analogue channels and two or four marker outputs enabling the generation of mixed-signal waveforms that provide for analogue signals and digital control channels.
The AWG7000 enables easy data interchange with third-party software including Matlab, Mathcad and Microsoft Excel which are often used in the creation and generation of waveforms, data streams and mixed signals as an aid to design, prototype, debug and test compliance of the latest products.
The AWG7000 Series is available immediately for order.
MSRP for the AWG7000 Series starts at GBP 37,200 for the 5Gsample/s AWG7051. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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