Tektronix AWG7102 Arbitrary Waveform Generator w/ Opt 6
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Tektronix AWG7102 Arbitrary Waveform Generator
The AWG7000 Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators Delivers the Industry’s Best Mixed Signal Stimulus Solution for Ever-increasing Measurement Challenges.
The AWG7000 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generator delivers a unique combination of superior signal stimulus, unrivaled sample rate, bandwidth and signal fidelity and uncompromised usability. This family offers the industry’s best solution to the challenging signal stimulus issues faced by designers verifying, characterizing and debugging sophisticated electronic designs. With sample rates from 5 GS/s to 20 GS/s (10-Bits), together with 1 to 2 output channels, the toughest measurement challenges in the disk drive, communications, digital consumer and semiconductor design/test industries can be easily solved. The open Windows (Windows XP)-based instruments deliver ease of use and allow connectivity with peripherals and compatibility with third-party software.
Application Examples
The need for performance arbitrary waveform generation is broad and spans over a wide array of applications. With the AWG7000 Series, Tektronix’ 3rd generation of industry leading Arbitrary Waveform Generators represent a new benchmark in performance, sample rate, signal fidelity and timing resolution. The ability to create, generate or replicate either ideal, distorted or “real-life” signals is essential in the design and testing process. Signal generation with controllable rise and fall times, noise or jitter; pre-emphasis, multilevel and mixed signals; wideband RF and fast changing signals are just some of the capabilities of the AWG7000 Series.
Pre/De-Emphasized Signal Generation
With increasing transmission speeds and to compensate for frequency characteristics of “lossy” media, the technique of pre/deemphasis is increasingly applied. Serial data standards such as PCI Express and others have also included pre/de-emphasis tests as a requirement to meet the respective compliance test specification. The basic theory of pre-emphasis is that for any series of bits of the same value, the first bit always has a higher voltage level than the following bits. By doing so, frequency characteristics of transmission lines can be compensated, thus the signal fidelity at the receiver side increased. The AWG7000 Series, with its performance and analog output, enables users to directly generate pre/de-emphasized signals for next-generation serial data standards. It also enables users to generate 3-level signals as required for SATA Out-of-Band (OOB) testing. The direct generation of such signals provides an increased signal quality and avoids cumbersome signal generation via multiple channels and power combiner.
Multi-level Signal Generation
The requirements for serial interfaces are continuously increasing. Higher and higher data rates are required, and the performance of cables and circuits is moving closer to their theoretical limits. One technique to increase the data rate without increasing the transition rate is by applying multi-level signals, wherein a signal can assume more than the standard binary 2 levels. In multi-level signaling one can think of multi-level discrete amplitudes of a signal. This phenomenon is known as pulseamplitude-modulation or PAM. A 4PAM signal, a signal with 4 different amplitudes, increases the data rate by four without increasing the transition rate of the signal. Multi-level signals are not only applied for data transmission. Multi-level memory chips, storing more than a single bit in an individual memory element, are being produced and multi-level coding of data for storage on optical disks is being considered as an efficient way to increase storage capacity. The AWG7000 Series enables you to test your latest design by generating any kind of mixed or multi-level signal.
Signal Generation for Storage Device Testing
Increasing capacity requirements for storage devices leads to the development of new and faster read-and-write strategies for magnetic as well as optical storage devices. Multi-level coding of data for storage on optical disks is also being considered as an efficient way to increase storage capacity. The AWG7000 Series, with its ability to generate an accurate reproduction of the read-and-write signals, enables users to design, develop and test the latest storage devices. With sample rates up to 20 GS/s and the generation of up to 6 signals (2 analog plus 4 marker) with a clock timing resolution of 100 ps, the AWG7000 Series is representing a new benchmark in the industry.
Wideband RF-Signal Generation
In the RF world, technologies ranging from a wireless mouse to a satellite image require test equipment that can provide enough sample rate and resolution to re-create even the most complex RF behavior. The latest digital RF technologies often exceed the capabilities of current test equipment to generate wide bandwidth and fast changing signals that are increasingly seen in many wireless applications such as radar, UWB and others. The AWG7000 Series enables the direct generation of RF signals and their output via the D/A converter for signals up to a carrier frequency of 5 GHz and a bandwidth of 5.8 GHz. The direct generation of IF or RF signals avoids I/Q degradations and lengthy adjustments associated with traditional generation using I/Q modulators. The AWG7000 Series with its maximum sample rate of 20 GS/s is the sole solution that allows a direct RF signal generation for up to 5 GHz.
Characteristics:
| Waveform Length | 2 to 32,400,000 points (or 2 to 64,800,000 points Option 01) in multiples of 64 Interleave: 2 to 64,800,000 points (or 2 to 129,600,000 points, Option 01) in multiples of 128 |
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| Number of Waveforms | 1 to 16,000 | |
| Sequence Length | 1 to 4,000 steps | |
| Sequence Repeat Counter | 1 to 65,536 or infinite | |
| Sequence Control | Repeat count, Wait for Trigger, Go-to-N and Jump | |
| Jump Mode | Synchronous and Asynchronous | |
| Run Modes | ||
| -Continuous | Waveform is iteratively output. If a sequence is defined, the sequence order and repeat functions are applied | |
| -Triggered | Waveform is output only once when an external, internal, GPIB, LAN or manual trigger is received | |
| -Gated | Waveform begins output when gate is true and resets to beginning when false | |
| -Sequence | Waveform is output as defined by the sequence | |
| Interleave Operation | Up to 20 GS/s sample rate (Option 06) |
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| Clock Generator | ||
| -Sampling Frequency | 10 MS/s to 10 GS/s (10 GS/s to 20 GS/s at interleave) |
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| Resolution | 8 digits | |
| Internal Clock | ||
| -Accuracy | Within ±(1 ppm+Aging), Aging: within ±1 ppm/year | |
| -Clock Phase Noise | Less than –90 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset | |
| Internal Trigger Generator Internal Trigger Rate |
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| -Range | 1.0 µs to 10.0 s | |
| -Resolution | 3 digits, 0.1 µs minimum | |
| Skew Control Between Outputs | ||
| -Range | –100 ps to +100 ps | |
| -Resolution | 1 ps | |
| -Skew Accuracy | ±(10% of setting +10 ps) | |
| Digital to Analog Converter | ||
| -Resolution | 10-Bit (no marker output) or 8-Bit (2 ch markets available): each channel selectable | |
| Standard Output (into 50 Ω) | ||
| -Number of Arb Outputs | 2 | |
| -Output Style | Differential | |
| -Output Impedance | 50 Ω | |
| -Connector | SMA Front | |
| Amplitude | ||
| -Amplitude | Normal: 50 mVpk-pk to 2.0 Vpk-pk, Direct: 50 mVpk-pk to 1.0 Vpk-pk | |
| -Resolution | 1 mV | |
| -DC Accuracy | ±(3.0% of Amplitude+2 mV) at offset=0 V | |
| Offset | ||
| -Range | Normal: –0.5 V to + 0.5 V, Direct: N/A | |
| -Resolution | 1 mV | |
| -Accuracy | ±(2% of offset ±10 mV) at minimum amplitude | |
| -Pulse Response | (–1 and 1 waveform data, 0 V offset, through filter at 1 Vpk-pk) | |
| Rise/Fall Time (20 to 80%) | Normal: 350 ps (at 2.0 Vpk-pk), Direct: 75 ps (at 1.0 Vpk-pk) | |
| -Overshoot | Less than 10% (at 1.0 Vpk-pk amplitude) | |
| -Bandwidth (–3dB) | Normal: 750 MHz, Direct: 3.5 GHz | |
| -Timing Skew | Less than 20 ps (direct output between each channel (+) Pos and (–) Neg output) | |
| -Low Pass Filter | Normal: 50 MHz, 200 MHz (Bessel type), Direct: N/A | |
| -Delay from Marker Output | Normal: 50 MHz (9.7 ns), 200 MHz (3.9 ns), Through (2.1 ns), Direct (0.5 ns) | |
| -Sine Wave Characteristics (up to 5th harmonic) | (10 GS/s clock, 32 waveform points, 312.5 MHz signal frequency, 1.0 V amplitude) | |
| -Harmonic Distortion | Normal: ≤–35 dBc, Direct: ≤–42 dBc | |
| -Non-harmonic Spurious | Normal: ≤–50 dBc (DC to 5 GHz) | |
| -SFDR (Typical) | (10 GS/s clock, amplitude: 1Vpk-pk, offset: 0 V, filter: “through,” 10-Bit DAC operation mode, DC to 5 GHz) | |
| -Phase Noise ≤ | (10 GS/s clock, amplitude: 1 Vpk-pk, offset: 0 V, 312.5 MHz) –90 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset | |
| -Random Jitter (Typical) | 1010 clock pattern | |
| -RMS | Normal: 1.6 ps, Direct: 0.9 ps | |
| -Total Jitter (Typical) | 215-1 PN data pattern (@ 10-12 BER) | |
| -Peak-to-Peak | Normal: 50 ps at 0.5 Gbps, Direct: 30 ps at 1 G to 6 Gbps | |
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Tektronix AWG7102 Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Installed Options:
- Option 06: Interleaved High Bandwidth output with 20 GS/s
Sampling Frequency Range: 10 MS/s to 20 GS/s
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- Tektronix AWG7102 Arbitrary Waveform Generator w/ Options: (BC# -L/T* )
- Installed Options:
- Option 06: Interleaved High Bandwidth output with 20 GS/s
- Installed Options:
- Power Cord
- User Manual on CD