Highest-performing AWGs

has introduced two additional models to its N6030A series arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) family, the highest-performing wideband AWGs in the industry.

The N6032A, a dual-channel AWG designed for radar and military communications, delivers 625MS/s and 15 bits of vertical resolution per channel to create wideband waveforms up to 250MHz wide. The N6033A, designed for satellite communications and general-purpose wideband applications, delivers 625MS/s and 10 bits of vertical resolution per channel, making it the lowest-cost dual-channel AWG for wideband applications.

"We now have four different AWGs with various bandwidths and fidelity ranges to meet the varying needs of our aerospace and defence and emerging-communications customers,” said Ron Nersesian, vice president of Agilent's wireless business unit. “The new software options speed time-to-market by allowing users to create the most realistic waveforms for evaluating their next-generation designs."

Three new software options build upon the N6030A series' ability to create realistic wideband signal simulations.

Agilent's direct digital synthesis software (Option 330) enables radar and emerging-communications engineers to create basic waveforms in the AWG's memory and then modify their behaviour with profiles for amplitude modulation, phase modulation and frequency modulation.