Keysight Technologies, Inc. added a 65-GSa/s, 20-GHz modular instrument to its portfolio of arbitrary waveform generators. The new high-speed, wide-bandwidth M8195A arbitrary waveform generator allows engineers to generate digital, multilevel (e.g. PAM4, MIPI C-PHY) signal scenarios and test their electrical and optical links with complex modulated signals up to 32 GBaud and beyond. This makes the M8195A the most versatile signal generator in the industry.
The instantaneous bandwidth from DC to 20 GHz allows researchers to create extremely short, yet precise pulses. Developers of radar, electronic warfare, satellite and wireless applications can use the M8195A AWG to create wideband signals up to 20 GHz. The instrument delivers high sample rate and wide bandwidth in combination with industry-leading port density. This unique functionality allows engineers to make reliable, repeatable measurements when they are working on binary and multilevel, multichannel digital interfaces as well as coherent optical and wideband communication applications.
The M8195A uses out-of-the box and in-situ calibration and signal predistortion methods to generate exceptionally clean signals – even at the highest data rates. Engineers also can use these techniques to embed or de-embed the channel between the generator and the device under test. The implementation in hardware allows change of parameters at runtime.
With up to 16 GSamples of waveform memory, the M8195A allows designers to create long and highly realistic signal scenarios. Multiple M8195A modules can be combined in a system with up to 16 fully synchronous channels in a single 5-slot AXIe chassis.
Additional information is available at www.keysight.com/find/M8195A.
