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M9099 Waveform Creator Application Software

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Product Description  

The M9099 Waveform Creator modular software application enables easy development and re-use of complex baseband and vector signals used to validate and test digital communications products. Its “drag and drop” graphical user interface allows quick development of multi-format, multi-track waveforms with waveform segments displayed in frequency and time. Waveform Creator supports multiple waveform types (input plug-ins), and a variety of vector signal generators (VSG, MXG, EXG and ESG) and arbitrary waveform generators (AWG), with an expandable architecture to support future waveform types, VSG and AWG. 

Key Features  

Waveform plug-in capability supporting popular digital modulation, import of Signal Studio (.wfm) and custom waveforms Simple signal parameter setting interface for composing waveform segments Select from provided waveform plug-ins or develop your own  Pre-correct or distort to model device behavior Build complex waveforms by combining waveform segments into tracks Composite waveform tracks can have different modulation rates and carrier frequencies, with the final output waveform resampled for correct reproduction Preview final combined waveform in either time or frequency domain before output to AWG/VSG or to a file Play back waveforms on the Keysight Technologies M9381A PXIe VSG, M8190A/95A AWG, M9330/31A AWG, N5182A/B MXG, N5172B EXG, E4438C ESG, 81180A/B AWG or N8241A/42A AWG, 33522A/33622A AWG Generate unencrypted files to export waveforms to your specific test environment (optional) SCPI capability for remote operation in test environments 

Easily Create Complex Baseband and Vector Signals

Increasing data rates and wider bandwidths continue to drive the need to create more complex signals to verify device performance in real world environments. From proprietary radars to commercial multi-channel, multi-emitter communication systems, the difficulty in creating test waveforms is becoming exponentially more challenging. Traditionally, creating such test waveforms required multiple tools to aggregate different waveform formats, leaving the user with the task of time aligning waveforms, resampling to different carrier frequencies and sample rates, and validating the resulting waveform.

Keysight’s M9099 Waveform Creator simplifies the creation of custom, proprietary complex waveforms through modular plug-ins that combine useful and needed waveform formats with links to VSG and AWG. Its simple and sophisticated “drag & drop” framework includes a dynamic arbitrary resampling engine, segment smoothing filters and digital corrections interface.

Waveform Creator’s modularity allows re-use of your custom waveforms and development of user-defined waveform plug-ins. It also enables use and modification of waveforms created in Keysight model-based EDA software tools like SystemVue for export to Keysight signal generators like the M8190A/95A AWG, M9381A PXIe VSG, N5182A/B MXG, N5172B EXG, E4438C ESG, M9330A/31A AWG for real-time play back.

The M9099 Waveform Creator software is designed to support current and future digital modulation formats, including wave­forms created using Keysight’s Signal Studio. It pays for itself by saving time and effort to create and manage complex waveform stimulus used in R&D, design validation, and manufacturing test.

Key Applications

  • Early R&D testing, design validation testing or even manufacturing test automation of RF, wireless and wireline communications products, components or systems in the following industries:
  • DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem development
  • Satellite communications, ground-, space-, and deep-space
  • Military communications and secure backhaul
  • Academic research
  • Extended test equipment support for specialized modulation formats
  • Component validation, using either simulation, or the latest wideband test equipment

 

Key Benefits

  • Higher productivity, through a simple, open, and expandable waveform creation environment
  • Lower project overhead, scripting, verification, and NRE
  • Faster time to deployment, through superior connectivity with Keysight EDA and modeling software like SystemVue and test equipment like Keysight’s M8190A/95A AWG, M9381A PXIe VSG, N5182A/B MXG, N5172B EXG, E4438C ESG, M9330A/31A AWG, 33522B/33622A AWG.

Construct Complex Waveforms with Drag-and-Drop Simplicity

A variety of powerful software tools are available for waveform creation at baseband and RF frequencies. The most popular choices for custom baseband and modulated RF waveform creation have been EDA tools like Keysight ADS or Keysight SystemVue, and algorithm tools like MATLAB from The MathWorks or other scripting/programming languages like C++, Python, or LabView. Each of these choices have strengths and weaknesses.

Keysight’s Waveform Creator provides a superior framework for creating custom baseband and modulated RF waveforms while allowing you to preserve your investment in other software through a drag-and-drop interface that supports importing waveform IP from other tools. This complements other Waveform Creator capabilities such as multi-tone waveform creation, basic digital modulation, and standard “utility” waveforms.

With Waveform Creator you create individual waveform segments using waveform plug-ins that come with the software – or custom plug-ins that you create. Once you configure a waveform segment, assembling a signal is a matter of dragging and dropping waveform segments into tracks and modifying the segment attributes using user-definable parameters. You can also add noise, IQ impairments, smoothing filters, and pre-corrections to customize the final, aggregated waveform as needed. In the final step, you select a sample rate that matches the desired hardware and download the signal to a compatible signal generator or arbitrary waveform generator, or output to a waveform file. Every step of the way, Waveform Creator automatically recalculates the final waveform and displays the result in both time and frequency domains prior to download. For more information, please refer to the application note “Easily Create Custom Waveforms with Waveform Creator”, literature number 5991-3203EN.

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