Product category: Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: AWG710B and AWG615
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 June 2004
Generators gain new wave software
ArbExpress is a PC-based software package that raises ease of use to a new level for arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) and arbitrary function generators (AFGs)
The software is available via download from the Tektronix website free of charge and supports the company's existing signal sources plus the new AWG710B and AWG615 arbitrary waveform generators. With today's faster engineering life cycles to achieve faster time to market, it is important to be able to test designs with real-world signals and characteristics as easily and effectively as possible.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 June 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In order to guarantee interoperability between different system components, it is often required that a signal source such as an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) or arbitrary function generator (AFG) provides stimulus signals to the subsystem components and then verifies that the components work as specified.
In order to generate these real world signals, they must first be created.
Creating these waveforms has historically been a challenge and a cause of increasing the time to market for the product being designed or tested.
ArbExpress, a waveform creation and editing tool for Tektronix AWG and AFG instruments, provides an easy-to-use and efficient way to create these real-world signals or waveforms.
"Engineers often need to generate signals and Tektronix meets those needs with the most advanced signal sources available", said Bob Buxton, Signal Source Marketing Manager, Tektronix.
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"What has been missing is a way to simplify the test operations".
"The complexity issue has now been addressed with ArbExpress software".
"When used with existing generators such as the AWG2000, AWG400, AWG500 and AFG300 series or the new AWG710B and AWG615, and in conjunction with industry-leading Tektronix oscilloscopes, engineers will have a complete and easy-to-use test configuration".
ArbExpress is Windows-based software that combines TekVisa GPIB/LAN connectivity with an easy-to-use interface that will make it simple for any level of operator or user to create real-world waveforms for all current Tektronix AWG and AFG instruments.
With ArbExpress, engineers will be able to directly import waveforms from an oscilloscope, create waveforms from standard waveform templates, and/or edit with specific anomalies, then send them to the signal sources to feed into the device under test.
The software also enables direct file access and instrument control of the generator, along with the ability to create a signal using a built-in equation editor and built-in mathematical functions.
Engineers can also perform direct instrument control and file transfer using MatLab software from The MathWorks.
Along with the ArbExpress software introduction, Tektronix has introduced two new arbitrary waveform generators, the AWG710B and AWG615, demonstrating further commitment in providing customers with complete solutions.
The 4.2Gsample/s AWG710B delivers world-class signal fidelity with ultra-high-speed mixed signal simulation, a powerful sequencing capability and digital logic outputs to solve the most difficult measurement challenges in the disk drive, communications, and semiconductor design/test industries.
Building on the AWG710B platform, the AWG615 delivers the same signal fidelity at up to 2.7Gsample/s, providing a cost-effective solution for engineering challenges at slower measurement speeds.
Both these new instruments incorporate a master/slave synchronisation capability, providing users with a multichannel solution.
The synchronisation gives communication engineers the ability to generate ultra-high-speed I/Q signals with world-class signal fidelity, simulating real-world, next-generation wideband communication signals.
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