Aeroflex Adds 3GHz Modular Digital RF Signal Generator to PXI 3000 Series

Aeroflex has announced the 3020C PXI Modular Digital RF Signal Generator, a 3GHz variant to the growing PXI signal generator line. Aeroflex's comprehensive modular RF test platform, the PXI 3000 Series, has the bandwidth and seamlessly cover the entire RF test process-from R&D through to manufacturing–in any wireless market from cellular to military/aerospace to RFIC. The 3020C covers the frequency range of 1MHz to 3GHz, supporting applications in high frequency (HF), high frequency (VHF) and high frequency (UHF) bands. The 3020C has wideband width modulation up to 90MHz for broadband communications standards or multicarrier test applications as well as RF output power from -120dBm to +6dBm.



The 3020C boasts excellent frequency and level settling times for high speed test applications and a built in dual-channel arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) for supplying complex modulated signals. The 3020C AWG is supplied with a generous 0.5GB of on board memory supporting up to 128M x 16 bit I and Q samples. The 3020C can perform high-speed switching in less than 250 microseconds (μs) when in list mode, which minimizes test set up time in automated systems and improves production throughput. The 3020C is a lower cost option for wideband test applications below 3GHz than the flagship 3025C module, which offers the same high RF performance, but with an extended frequency range to 6GHz. Entry level modules 3020A and 3025 continue to provide the best economies for applications between 250MHz and 2.7GHz and 80MHz to 6GHz respectively where RF modulated signal bandwidths of up to 28MHz are sufficient. The 3020C PXI Modular Digital RF Signal Generator is available now.