Tektronix AWG5204 Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Tektronix AWG5204 Arbitrary Waveform Generator - 16 bit, 2 GSamples/channel record length, 4-channel
AWG5200 Series Overview:
The AWG5200 Arbitrary Waveform Generator meets demanding signal generation needs with high signal fidelity and the ability to scale up to 32 or more channels with multi-unit synchronization at an affordable price. Ideal for advanced research, electronic test and radar, and electronic warfare system design and test.
The AWG5200 Series arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) leads the way in signal generation by enabling bleeding-edge innovation for engineers and researchers. The AWG5200 Series of AWGs delivers unparalleled signal fidelity coupled with class-leading sample rate and memory depth, giving you the industry's best signal stimulus solution for complex RF baseband signal generation and precision experimental applications. With up to 5 GS/s sample rate (10 GS/s with interpolation) and 16-bit vertical resolution, the AWG5200 Series offers easy generation of complex signals as well as accurate playback of existing captured signals
Less noise. Cleaner signals
The AWG5200 Arbitrary Waveform generator delivers the industry's best combination of sample rate and vertical resolution at a surprisingly low price. Create real-life environments based on accurate, noise-free signals, and 5 GS/s 16-bit performance that allows for direct generation of signals up to 6 GHz.
Highlights
- 16 bits of DAC resolution
- 5 GS/s sample rate
- Extremely low noise floor
- A scalable, flexible, affordable arbitrary waveform generator.
A scalable, flexible, affordable arbitrary waveform generator
Scale efficiently with any setup, with up to 8 channels per unit, low cost per channel, and multi-unit synchronization. The fully-integrated platform allows for faster waveform loading and cleaner RF performance.
Highlights
- Simultaneously use up to 8 analog channels, 32 digital and 4 flags
- Up to 8 independent channels, multi-unit synchronization
- Extremely low noise floor
- Smart and affordable with a low base price per channel
Waveform creation on and off your arbitrary waveform generator
The SourceXpress environment simulates the native firmware of the AWG5200 and runs on your PC. It works with the plug-ins to allow you to easily and conveniently switch between them. The plug-ins simplify the process of generating complex RF environment signals and modulated radar pulses, helping you iterate through designs much more quickly.
Highlights
- Radar, RF, OFDM Plug-ins
- Simulate AWG from anywhere on PC
- Create waveforms even when you don’t have access to AWG
- Control AWG remotely
Simplify your test set-up
The AWG5200 Arbitrary Waveform generator is all about streamlining your test set-up. It starts by being an off-the-shelf solution for simplifying or replacing your current complex signal generation set-up. Backwards compatibility with other Tektronix signal generators means you don’t need to re-learn a set-up process. Finally, the ability to automate tests using Matlab scripts makes it a simpler set-up end-to-end.
Highlights
- AWG backwards compatibility
- Create waveforms using Matlab commands
- Digital up-conversion, wide range of clean, output power provides VSG-like capabilities
Series Key Features:
- Complete solution for complex RF signal generation in a single box
- Direct generation of signals with carriers up to 4 GHz, removing the need for external RF conversion
- Simulate real-world analog effects on high speed digital data streams
- Generate high precision RF signals
- Spurious Free Dynamic Range performance better than -70 dBc
- Create long complex waveforms without compromising bandwidth
- Up to 2 GSamples of Waveform Memory plays 400 ms of data at 5 GS/s
- Synchronize multiple units to achieve a multi-channel high speed AWG system
- Fully operational without external PC
- Built-in display and buttons make it possible to quickly select, edit, play waveforms and trigger on events directly from the AWG front panel
- Simulate real-world environments by playing back captured signals
- Waveforms captured with Oscilloscopes or Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers can be played back, edited or re-sampled on the AWG
- Smooth transition from simulation to the real-world testing environment
- Waveform vectors imported from third-party tools such as MATLAB
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RF/MW waveform generation for communications and defense electronics testing and development
- Output RF signals directly up to 4 GHz
Leading edge research in electronics, physics & chemistry
- High speed, low jitter signal source generates uniquely specified analog signals, fast pulses, data streams and clocks
Real-life, real-time signals for radar design.
Create, validate and test radar components using flexible, precise tests while simplifying waveform designs. The AWG5200 delivers 16-bit DAC resolution, low noise (SFDR), high fidelity signals, and replicates complex signals through interpolation. Plus, you can use digital up-conversion to shift center frequencies.
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Highlights
- Radar, RF Generic and pre-compensation plug-ins
- Generate complex true-to-life test signals with excellent spurious performance
- Generate complex RF environments with long signals, playback and streaming
- Up to 8 tightly synchronized channels per instrument or synchronize multiple instruments together for a higher channel count
Better results, less stress, with independent, synchronized channels for EW.
Generate a complex RF environment with 8 independent, synchronized channels. Take advantage of long signals and playback while reducing the time, stress and cost of designing and building a setup. Simulate true-to-life environments with a 16 bit DAC, low noise floor (SFDR), high fidelity signals, more channels and scalability, and low trigger-to-output latency.
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Highlights
- Quickly update existing code with AWG5000 backward compatibility
- Generate complex true-to-life test signals with excellent spurious performance
- OFDM, RF generic and RADAR Plug-ins
Focus on your quantum research, not the noise.
Quantum computing researchers and developers can reduce the time to iterate through designs, reduce scaling experiment costs, and create the clean, stable waveforms that make breakthroughs possible. 8 independent, tightly synchronized channels provide sample memory and bandwidth, resulting in a reliable, controlled source with low noise (SFDR), for the cleanest signal in the industry.
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Highlights
- Minimal time between trigger and waveform playout
- Run multiple quantum experiments with built-in sequencer that can be changed programmatically
- Use up to 8 analog channels, 32 digital and 4 flags simultaneously
- Tightly synchronized, no crosstalk
Innovate in your field, affordably.
Bring complex, cutting edge academic research to the next level, with fast, low-stress setup. Iterate designs while enabling more precise and easily scalable experiments at a low cost. All thanks to eight synchronized independent channels per unit and a fully-integrated platform that allows for faster waveform loading and cleaner RF performance.
Highlights
- Economically scale experiments with same amount of channels and half the instruments
- Up to 32 digital channels for flexible triggering of additional test equipment
- 16 bit DAC resolution, low noise floor and excellent spurious performance
- Remove unwanted effects added by test setup with advanced pre-compensation plug-in