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M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer / Wideband Digital Receiver - Data Sheet

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M9203A

PXIe high-speed digitizer / wideband digital receiver 2 channels, 12-bit, up to 3.2 GS/s, DC up to 2 GHz bandwidth

Introduction

The Keysight M9203A is a very fast and low noise PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver featuring wide analog bandwidth, making it ideal for wireless, radar and satellite communication applications or any application requiring wideband signal capture with very high dynamic range. Thanks to its PCI Express® backplane connection, the M9203A supports continuous data streaming to disk.

Product Description

The M9203A is a dual-slot 3U PXIe 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver running at up to 3.2 GS/s, with up to 2 GHz1 instantaneous analog bandwidth and provides up to 4 GB of DDR3 acquisition memory. The M9203A features a large Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA that can implement different functionalities depending on which firmware option you choose.

The M9203A can also be combined with the Keysight PathWave VSA Software and Keysight U1092A Multichannel Acquisition Software for advanced multichannel signal analysis.

Example Applications

  • Wireless communication (5G, LTE)
  • Emerging communication standards (e.g., DOCSIS 3.1)
  • Radar and wideband signal capture
  • Radar and satellite communication applications
  • Semiconductor automated test

Product Features

  • 12-bit ADC resolution
  • 2 channels (1 when interleaving with -INT option)
  • Up to 3.2 GS/s sampling rate (with -INT option)
  • DC to 2 GHz input frequency range
  • Up to 4 GB (1 GSamples/Ch) of DDR3 acquisition memory
  • 50 Ω input impedance, DC coupled
  • Selectable 1 V or 2 V full scale range (FSR)
  • ±2x FSR input voltage offset range
  • ±200 fs channel-to-channel skew stability
  • 15 ps RMS trigger time interpolator (TTI) precision
  • Enhanced real-time processing using configurable Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs1
  • High data throughput PCIe® Gen2 (x8) backplane
  • Real-time digital down-conversion (-DDC option) on 2 phase-coherent channels
  • Real-time baseband raw data streaming and recording bundle (-CB0)
  • Real-time digital down-conversion with I/Q data streaming and recording bundle (-CB2)
  • Support for Windows and Linux

Uncompromising Values

  • Fast PXIe 12-bit wideband digitizer with on-board real-time processing
  • Capture wide bandwidth signals
  • High dynamic range acquisition for better measurement fidelity
  • Capable of switching between multiple firmware programs
  • Self-trigger mode for unequaled synchronous noise reduction
  • Reduced test time by tuning and zooming on signals (-DDC option)
  • Dual channel phase-coherent streaming and recording with up to 320 MHz alias protected instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) via bundle -CB2
  • Support for Windows and Linux

Hardware Platform

Hardware Overview

The M9203A is PXI Express compliant. Designed to benefit from fast data interfaces, the product can be integrated in PXIe and PXI Hybrid chassis slots. The PXI format offers high performance in a small, rugged package. It is an ideal deployment platform for many automated measurements systems.

On-Board Real Time Processing

At the heart of the M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver is a data processing unit (DPU) based on the powerful Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. This DPU is responsible for controlling the module functionality, data flow and real-time signal processing. This powerful feature allows data reduction and storage to be carried out at the digitizer level, minimizing transfer volumes and speeding-up analysis. The M9203A also provides open access to its on-board processing FPGAs for custom algorithm implementation using the -FDK option. The FPGA bitfiles for these custom algorithms can be created using the legacy U5340A FPGA Development Kit.

Software Platform

I/O Libraries

Keysight IO Libraries Suite offers fast and easy access to the M9203A digitizer using a standardized interface and ensuring compatibility and upgradability of the software applications.

The Keysight IO Libraries Suite displays all the modules in your system. From here you can view information about the installed software or launch the modules’ soft front panel directly from Keysight Connection Expert (KCE). In addition, KCE offers an easy way to find the correct driver for your instrument.

Drivers

The module comes with the IviDigitizer class compliant Keysight MD2 IVI-COM and IVI-C drivers that work in the most popular development environments including Visual C/C++, C#, VB.NET, MATLAB, and LabVIEW. Linux is also supported using the IVI-C driver.

Easy Software Integration

To help you get started and complete complex tasks quickly, the M9203A digitizer is supplied with a comprehensive portfolio of module drivers, documentation, examples, and software tools to help you quickly develop test systems with your software platform of choice.

Compliance

The M9203A is PXI Express compliant. Designed to benefit from fast data interfaces, the product can be integrated in PXIe and PXI Hybrid chassis slots.

Software Applications

In addition, the M9203A includes the Keysight MD2 soft front panel (SFP) graphical interface. This software application can be used to explore the capabilities of the Keysight modular high-speed digitizers.

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