Keysight Agilent N5181B MXG X-Series 6GHz RF Analog Signal Generator w/ Opts

Keysight Agilent N5181B MXG X-Series 9kHz to 6GHz RF Analog Signal Generator

Discover X-Series signal generation

From 9 kHz to 6 GHz, the analog and vector MXG, EXG, and CXG signal generators deliver unmatched performance in five key categories: phase noise and spectral purity, bandwidth, EVM, ACPR, and output power.

Advanced real-time applications

Perform advanced receiver testing compatible with the latest standards using the MXG or EXG and PathWave Signal Generation software: define signal parameters, transfer them to the instrument, and use closed-loop or interactive control during signal generation.

Lower cost-of-ownership

X-Series signal generators are designed for high reliability and simplified service. One key example is the self-maintenance strategy: if onsite repairs are ever needed, they can be completed in less than two hours with our parts exchange program.

Internal channel corrections enhance bandwidth and accuracy

The CXG and MXG/EXG provide modulation bandwidths to 120 or 160 MHz, respectively. This wide modulation bandwidth is available with EVM up to 0.4 percent and flatness up to ± 0.2 dB, ample performance for even the most demanding design tasks.

The X-Series achieves this combination of bandwidth and accuracy through the use of a proprietary baseband ASIC and a factory-calibrated channel correction technique that extend from the baseband I/Q modulator to the RF output. Together, these technologies minimize I/Q errors to provide high modulation accuracy plus wide modulation bandwidth without user intervention such as manual I/Q adjustment.

To know your device’s behavior, you’ll take many paths. That’s the idea behind the Keysight Technologies. Inc. X-Series signal generators. They produce the signals you need—from simple to complex, from clean to dirty—to test your design within and beyond its limits.

The X-Series is crafted to create signals capable of testing your very best devices. From the pure and precise MXG to the cost-effective EXG and general-purpose CXG, the X-Series helps you generate true performance.

To help you quickly create signals that meet the needs of specific standards and measurements, the X-Series signal generators are compatible with Keysight PathWave Signal Generation software. Its suite of signal-creation tools addresses cellular communications, wireless connectivity, audio, video, positioning, tracking, and general-purpose applications.

To reduce cost of ownership, the X-Series signal generators are designed for high reliability and fast, easy calibration, service, and repair. Today’s X-Series signal generators leverage technology used in previous-generation MXG signal generators, which are among the most reliable signal sources ever offered by Keysight.

Industry-leading phase noise

The MXG implements a new triple-loop phased-lock loop (PLL) design and “frequency plan” that results in substantial phase noise improvements close to the carrier and at wide offsets. The frequency plan addresses several key attributes: the choice of oscillator and reference frequencies in the synthesizer and the associated frequency conversion (mixers and multipliers) and filtering.

The triple-loop approach allows optimized frequency spacing that ensures effective filtering of nonlinear artifacts such as images by pushing them outside the bandwidth of the synthesizer circuits. In the MXG, the plan arranges the frequency references and conversions such that the largest are far from the desired frequencies and modest filtering can heavily attenuate the remaining spurious signals.

Pure and precise MXG

On the path to better performance, the pure and precise MXG X-Series signal generators are fine-tuned to be your “golden transmitter” in R&D. Whether you’re pushing for a linear RF chain or an optimized link budget, the analog and vector MXG models deliver the performance and capabilities you need: phase noise, ACPR, channel coding, and more.

Use the MXG to test radar receiver sensitivity, characterize ADC or mixer SNR, or find receiver out-of-band rejection capability. You’ll get excellent results with industry-leading phase noise of –146 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz and spurious performance of –96 dBc at 1 GHz. You can also drive power amplifiers and characterize nonlinear behavior with industry-leading output power of +27 dB and ACPR of –73 dBc (W-CDMA test mode 1, 64 DPCH).

With EVM up to 0.4 percent (802.11ac and LTE) and factory-equalized 160 MHz RF bandwidth with flatness of less than ± 0.2 dB, the MXG enables testing and characterization of multicarrier power amplifiers or wideband receivers and components, such as those used in 802.11ax WLAN designs.

Keysight Agilent N5181B MXG X-Series 6GHz RF Analog Signal Generator

Installed Options:
- 006: Instrument Security and Removable Memory Card
- 099: Expanded License Key Upgradability
- 302: Avionics License
- 303: Multifunction Generator
- 320: Pulse Train Generator, Fixed Perpetual License
- 506: Frequency Range, 9 kHz to 6 GHz
- UNT: AM, FM, Phase Modulation
- UNW: Narrow Pulse Modulation
- UNY: Enchanced Low Phase Noise Performance
- UNZ: Fast Switching

Industry-Leading Phase Noise of –146 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz

Includes Accessories As Listed!

• Keysight Agilent N5181B MXG X-Series 6GHz RF Analog Signal Generator: (BC# -L/T*)
  • Installed Options:
    • 006: Instrument Security and Removable Memory Card
      
    • 099: Expanded License Key Upgradability
    • 302: Avionics License
      
    • 303: Multifunction Generator
      
    • 320: Pulse Train Generator, Fixed Perpetual License
    • 506: Pulse Train Generator, Fixed Perpetual License
    • UNT: AM, FM, Phase Modulation
    • UNW: Narrow Pulse Modulation
    • UNY: Enchanced Low Phase Noise Performance
    • UNZ: Fast Switching 
• Power Cord
  
• User Manual on CD

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