Data Sheet

EVM/Constellation Measurement.

Industry's Best Mixed-signal Stimulus

Solution for Today's Complex Measurement

Challenges

The AWG5000 Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators delivers the

optimal combination of sample rate, vertical resolution, signal fidelity, and

waveform memory length, all in an easy-to-use self-contained package.

The series offers the industry's best solution to the challenging signal

stimulus issues faced by designers verifying, characterizing, and debugging

sophisticated electronic designs.

Meeting the needs of today's design engineers, the series provides

excellent dynamic range over all modulation bandwidths. AWG5000 Series

models, with a 14-bit DAC, sample rates up to 1.2 GS/s, 2 to 4 output

channels, synchronized 4 to 8 digital marker outputs, and 28 channels of

digital data outputs, easily solve the toughest measurement challenges in

wireless communications, defense electronics, digital consumer product

design, data conversion equipment, test system synchronization, and

semiconductor design and test.

The open windows (Windows 7) based instruments are easy, convenient to

use, and connect with peripherals and other third-party software.

The capabilities of the AWG5000 Series are further enhanced by the

addition of key features:

Equation Editor

The Equation Editor is an ASCII text editor that uses text strings to create

waveforms by loading, editing, and compiling equation files. The editor

provides control and flexibility to create more complex waveforms using

customer-defined parameters.

Waveform Sequencing and Subsequencing

Real-time sequencing creates infinite waveform loops, jumps, and

conditional branches for longer pattern-length generation suitable for

replicating real-world behavior of serial transmitters.

Dynamic Jump

The Dynamic Jump capability enables the creation of complex waveforms

by enabling the ability to dynamically jump to any predefined index in a

waveform sequence. Users can define up to 16 distinct jump indexes that

respond to changing external environments.

LXI Class C

Using the LXI Web Interface, you can connect to the AWG5000 Series

through a standard web browser by simply entering the AWG's IP address

in the address bar of the browser. The web interface enables viewing of

instrument status and configuration, as well as status and modification

of network settings. All web interaction conforms to the LXI Class C

specification.

Wireless I/Q and IF Signal Generation

The AWG5000 Series provides good SFDR over modulation bandwidths up

to 180 MHz, meeting the demands of IQ and IF signal generation.

The RFXpress (RFX100) software package utilizes the raw AWG

performance to simplify the creation of RF signals. Supporting a wide range

of modulation schemes, the software is flexible enough to create either

generic or propriety signals for digital communication systems. Power

ramping, frequency hopping, and impairments can easily be added to

generate the desired signal.

Radar Signal Creation is a software module for RFXpress that gives you

the ultimate flexibility in creating pulsed radar waveforms. It gives you the

ability to build your own radar pulse suite starting from pulse-to-pulse trains

to pulse groups. It supports a variety of modulation schemes including LFM,

Barker and Polyphase Codes, User-defined Codes, Step FM, Nonlinear FM,

User-defined FM, and Custom modulation. It also has the ability to generate

pulse trains with staggered PRI to resolve range and doppler ambiguity,

frequency hopping for Electronic Counter-Counter Measures (ECCM),

and pulse-to-pulse amplitude variation to simulate Swerling target models

including antenna scan patterns, clutter, and multipath effects. RFXpress is

a powerful easy-to-use software package to synthesize IQ and IF signals for

arbitrary waveform generators. It runs as an integral part of the AWG5000

Series or from an external PC.