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M8100 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generators
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M8100 Series AWG Highlights
Enhance Your Reality
The M8100 Series arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) offer a level of versatility that enables you to set up complex real-world signals — whether you need precise signals to characterize the performance of a design or need to stress a device to its limits. From low-observable radar to high-density communications, testing is more realistic with our precision arbitrary waveform generators.
- Push radar and electronic warfare designs farther with highly realistic signal scenarios
- Leverage up to 256 GSa/s sample rates
- Debug your toughest designs with confidence using superior signal fidelity
- Use high-resolution and wide-bandwidth signals simultaneously
- Stress your device to its limits with clean or distorted signals
- Reduce system footprint with AXIe form factor
The Custom Power Behind Our Instruments
Pushing the boundaries of technology requires instantaneous bandwidth, spurious-free dynamic range, and signal fidelity beyond basic measurements. Keysight powers every performance product with custom MMICs, designed in-house, manufactured in our proprietary indium phosphide (InP) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) fab with custom ASIC signal processing that ensure the industry’s fastest, most reliable measurements. Count on Keysight to accelerate your next innovation. In our high-performance BERTs and AWGs, Keysight semiconductors enable speed, bandwidth, and flexibility for terabit transmission systems, resulting in excellent eye diagrams.
Meet the New M8199B 256 GSa/s AWG
The new M8199B arbitrary waveform generator provides the speed, bandwidth, precision, and flexibility to meet the challenges of your next-generation applications.
- Provides R&D engineers with a high-performance signal source for arbitrary signals, enabling the development of designs of 160 GBaud and above
- Up to 8 synchronized channels at 256 GSa/s with nominal analog bandwidth exceeding 80 GHz
- Integrated and ready-to-use hardware, allowing you to spend more time running tests
- Built-in frequency and phase response calibration for clean output signals
- Flexible system with upgrade options from 1 channel to 8 synchronized channels
- Operates with well-known software, including MATLAB, Keysight IQTools, and SCPI programming interface based on M8070B software
Meet the M8199A AWG
To create next-generation transmission technology, advanced research engineers require a new level of stimulus performance. Whether testing the discrete components of a coherent optical system or experimenting with terabit transmission, you need the highest speed, bandwidth, precision, and flexibility to meet the challenges of applications. The capabilities of the M8199A enable you to take your designs to a new level.
- High performing AWG with up to 256 GS/s sample rate and up to 70 GHz bandwidth provides enough margin required typically for pulse-shaped signals
- Integrated and ready-to-use instrument saves time and resources and accelerates time to market
- High flexibility with license-based upgrades from two to four channels and sample rate from 128 to 256 GS/s
- Supports all software tools available for M8100A Series AWGs
- Ideal for telecommunication, physics and natural sciences application such as coherent transmission, direct detection, radar signal creation, and any high frequency signal stimulus
Key Specifications
Sample Rate
125 MSa/s to 256 GSa/s
Bit Resolution
8 to 14 bits
Analog Bandwidth
3 to 80 GHz
Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR)
-49 to -90 dBc
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M8100 Series AWG Applications
Aerospace and Defense
Choosing the right emitter generation source to use for testing an electronic warfare (EW) application is a challenging task. Some of the difficulty arises because that decision must be informed by the test engineer’s own requirements, along with the nuances of each application, and that means that no one source is ideal in every situation.
Optical Transceivers
Next-generation optical transceivers enable telecom service providers to support 100GE, 400GE, and soon terabit applications. To thoroughly test your optical receiver, you need to stimulate it with complex waveforms using different modulation formats and data sources. Keysight's M8100A Series AWGs can help you quickly and accurately test the performance of your optical transceivers.
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