Agilent Technologies 33500B series of waveform generators

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The Agilent Technologies 33500B series generates waveforms up to 30 MHz. They provide low jitter and a total harmonic distortion of less than 0.04% with non-harmonic spurs less than 75 dBc. An 8.4 ns rise and fall time and 16 bit of resolution allows engineers to make output changes down to 1 µV. The series offers easy software upgrades to expand the instruments’ capabilities to increase bandwidth and add true point-by-point arbitrary waveforms and deeper waveform memory.

The 33500B’s Trueform technology provides engineers with the economy and good frequency resolution of direct digital synthesis (DDS) and blends it with point-by-point architectures. The technology uses a digital sampling technique that delivers higher performance at the same price of legacy DDS systems. The capability to sum and combine waveforms allows engineers to add noise to signals for margin and distortion testing using only a single channel. The 33500B two-channel model can sum and combine up to four signals.

The 33500B also features variable-bandwidth noise generation; waveform sequencing to create long, complex waveforms using minimal instrument memory; pseudo-random binary sequence pattern generation to test digital serial buses by streaming standard PRBS patterns and an optional baseband IQ player. The IQ player allows wireless communication engineers to economically play IQ signals and the ability to make adjustments to the signal, including amplitude gain, channel offset and channel skew as needed for a more accurate representation.