The new Picotest G5100A Waveform Generator uses direct digital synthesis (DDS) techniques to create a stable, accurate output signal for clean, low distortion sine waves. The G5100A offers 10 standard waveforms and user defined arbitrary waveforms with 14 bits resolution. It also provides you 16 bits pattern out and a synchronized clock. Moreover, the external frequency references lets you synchronize to an external 10 MHz clock. The G5100A has intuitiv panel operation; the menue is structured and convinient. All shortcut keys are fast and easy to access. The G5100A furnish you the flexibility to create the waveforms you need. Also you can store up to 8 waveforms (8 x 64K points) in nonvolatile memory.

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Features

• Standard Waveforms: Sine, Square, Ramp, Pulse, Noise.DC
• Built-in Arbitrary: xponential rise/fall, Neg. Ramp, Sin (x)/x, Cardiac
• Sine Frequency Range: 1µHz to 50MHz
• Square Frequency Range: 1µHz to 25MHz
• Ramp Triangle Frequency Range: 1µHz to 200kHz
• Pulse Frequency Range: 500µ to 5MHz
• Pulse Width (period <10s): 20ns minimum, 10ns resolution
• Noise Bandwidth: 10MHz typical
• Arbitrary Frequency range: 1µHz to 6MHz
• Waveform Length: 256K points max.
• Amplitude Resolution: 14 bits (including sign)
• Sample Rate: 125 MS/s
• Interface: USB standard - LAN or GPIB optional

AT-AWG500 is a high performance 500Mhz 16Bit Fully Arbitrary Waveform Generator. The AT-AWG500 digital engine has a powerful parallel architecture which can perform at runtime complex signal processing and waveform sequencing at high speed rates and resolution. The digital engine is well supported by a powerful analog front-end which provides three outputs with different performances and analog signal conditioning options ..... Datasheet + DEMO-Software

AT-AWG500 is the ideal choice to generate high quality waveforms from the simplest to the most complex in the easiest way ever. The AT-AWG500 parallel digital engine can run in Arbitrary,DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis) and True Arb(with external clock) Mode at 500Mhz update rate and 16Bit resolution.

AT-AWG500 has the AT-XSS (Extended Synchronous System) expansion system that provides the extendibility at up to 8 synchronous output without loss of performance: 8 channels @ 500Ms/s.

AT-AWG500 Features

• 500 MHz 16 Bit Fully Arbitrary Waveform Generator

• Connect up to 8 instruments with AT-XSS bus

• Up to 349,504 different waveforms definable

• Waveform execution sequence statically defined or dynamically updated

• Triggering modes: single, continuous, stepped, burst16 Bit ASK modulation

• Modulation low statically defined or dynamically updated to generate arbitrary signals modulated at runtime

• DDS Mode: 36 Bit DDS, FSK,PSK,7.27mHz resolution

• LVOut: Single ended 50 Ohm full power bandwith,< 600 ps rise time, ±3V voltage swing

• HVOut: Single ended 50 Ohm output,
  < 1.8 ns rise time, ±12V voltage swing, programmable analog filters, attenuations and current limitation

• DiffOut:Differential 100 Ohm output,
  < 1.2 ns rise time, ±6V voltage swing, programmable analog filters and common mode voltage USB 2.0 interface (also supports USB 1.1)

• Windows 2000/XP OS

The software provide a user-friendly graphic interface to control all the AT-AWG500 functionalities. The Basic software is a ready-to-go environment to start immediately and easily with the AT-AWG500 generating the most common waveforms. The Full software, instead, provides full support for all AT-AWG500 features in a workspace based environment with multiple display windows and advanced editing tools.

Typical Applications

• General purpose AWG applications.
• High fidelity waveforms for communications and semiconductor component and system tests.
• Low Impedance Output for Programmable Supply Source useful in semiconductor test to emulate power on and power off transients.
• Frequency Hopping Pulse generation (current limitation feature, fast rise times and low pulse aberration, high voltage swing and output current).
• AM with Adjacent Carriers,Multi-Tone Testing, FM with Dual-Tone Modulation, Adding Noise to a Carrier Signal.
• MFSK,MPSK,BPSK,QPSK (with two Waveforms and one adder).
• Automotive: for example generate a signal from an airbag sensor during a crash.
• DDS in Clocking Applications.
• Spread Spectrum clocking.
• Jitter tolerance tests.
• PRBS generation.
• Emulate sensors.
• Multiple Instrument Synchronization.
• Sonobuoy communications.