INSTRUMENTATION & ELECTRONICS
The brand new 10GS/s AWG with 16- bit (rear), designed on the same M5i platform like the already established 10 GS/s digitizer series with 12-bit (front)
The M5i Star-Hub module, mounted on the left card. This option allows up to 8 AWGs or 8 digitisers to be
synchronised by sharing a common sampling clock and trigger source
ULTRAFAST SIGNALS I
Combining a new series of ultrafast arbitrary waveform generators and digitisers for stimulus-response systems
n March 2022, Spectrum Instrumentation launched the M5i series platform, the fi rst PCIe digitisers to use the full 16
lanes (Gen 3) of the PCIe interface, leading to enormous 12.8 gigabytes per second (GByte/s) data transfer rates. The following year the M5i. xx digitiser family was expanded, with new models off ering ultrafast 10 gigasamples per second (GS/s) sampling speed and 4.7GHz bandwidth. Now, Spectrum Instrumentation
has used the M5i platform to design Arbitrary Waveform Generators
(AWGs) that off er up to 10GS/s signal generation. The series, called the M5i.63xx was launched last October. As a consequence, it is now possible to combine AWGs and digitisers, with ultrafast speeds up to 10GS/s, to create Stimulus-Response Systems and Closed-Loop-Setups with cost eff icient COTS parts and normal PCs.
NEW AWG CARD SERIES Capable of producing waveforms with bandwidths up to 2.5GHz, the new AWGs can turn any suitable PC into a powerful signal generation instrument. Four models make up
the new M5i.63xx series product line. Each one pairs exceptionally high bandwidth with matching digital to analogue converter (DAC) technology. The result is the family of AWGs off ering bandwidths of 2.5 and 1.5GHz that output waveforms at rates up to 10, 5 or 3.2GS/s. All the units feature 16-bit vertical resolution, together with programmable full scale output ranges of ±1V (±500mV into 50Ohm). It is a unique combination in a PCIe instrument, with the M5i.63xx series delivering new performance benchmarks for waveform speed, precision and quality.
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