Tektronix Accelerates Arbitrary Waveform Generators with 9.6 GHz

Tektronix Inc. has announced its AWG7000B and AWG5000B Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWG). With 9.6 GHz effective RF output, 10 bit resolution, and sample rates up to 24 GS/s, the AWG7000B is AWG that can produce high-speed serial waveforms with real life imperfections including noise, jitter, pre/de-emphasis and multi-level signaling up to 8 Gb/s. Design engineers who are developing new technologies such as SATA Gen 3, PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0, HDMI 1.3, the DisplayPort and the latest storage devices need to process large amounts of data at faster speeds, broader bandwidths and higher frequencies. The company also launches SerialXpress software that performs direct synthesis of waveforms for high-speed serial data receiver testing for testing SATA, SAS, PCI-Express, HDMI, DisplayPort and other serial bus technologies operating at speeds up to 8 Gbps. The SerialXpress manages the creation of these waveforms for high-speed transmission on the AWG7000B Series.



The RFXpress is an easy-to-use software package that is used to create and edit RF/IF/IQ signals that are generated by arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs). The RFXpress exploits the wideband signal generation capabilities of Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs) to considerably reduce the time needed for signal creation and simulation, and reducing overall development and test time. The AWG7000B supports direct generation of signals in all UWB-WiMedia bandgroups (BG1-BG6) when used with RFXpress and WiMedia options. The AWG5000B and AWG7000B Series are available immediately for order. U.S. MSRP starts at $28,000 for the 600 MS/s AWG5002B and $65,000 for the 6 GS/s AWG7061B. The RFXpress software package starts at $5,000 U.S. MSRP.