Building a multiple emitter RF signal environment made easy

In recent years, proposals have been made for communication systems to operate in radar bands, closing the proximity of Radar and RF signal environments. Tektronix has put together a specific waveform creation plugin for current Arbitrary Waveform Generators that enables engineers to create specific RF environments for many specific applications.

Supported applications include simulating/emulating any real world wireless scenarios/environments for EW monitoring, radar receivers with interference signals and Phased Array Antennae and MIMO.

Features of the new environment plugin include:

• The ability to create multiple scenarios and assign to different AWG channels in one compile. Users can create up to 50 Scenarios.

• Scenarios are made up of individual RF Emitters signals and users can define up to 100 Emitters per Scenario

Less noise. Cleaner signals.

The AWG5200 Arbitrary Waveform generator delivers the industry's best combination of sample rate and vertical resolution at a surprisingly low price. Create real-life environments based on accurate, noise-free signals, and 5 GS/s 16-bit performance that allows for direct generation of signals up to 4 GHz.

Highlights

• 16 bits of DAC resolution

• 5 GS/s sample rate

• Extremely low noise floor

• A scalable, flexible, affordable arbitrary waveform generator.

A scalable, flexible, affordable arbitrary waveform generator.

Scale efficiently with any setup, with up to 8 channels per unit, low cost per channel, and multi-unit synchronization. The fully-integrated platform allows for faster waveform loading and cleaner RF performance.

Highlights

• Simultaneously use up to 8 analog channels, 32 digital and 4 flags

• Up to 8 independent channels, multi-unit synchronization

• Extremely low noise floor

• Smart and affordable with a low base price per channel

Waveform creation on and off your arbitrary waveform generator.

The SourceXpress environment simulates the native firmware of the AWG5200 and runs on your PC. It works with the plug-ins to allow you to easily and conveniently switch between them. The plug-ins simplify the process of generating complex RF environment signals and modulated radar pulses, helping you iterate through designs much more quickly.

Highlights

• Radar, RF, OFDM Plug-ins

• Simulate AWG from anywhere on PC

• Create waveforms even when you don’t have access to AWG

• Control AWG remotely

Simplify your test set-up.

The AWG5200 Arbitrary Waveform generator is all about streamlining your test set-up. It starts by being an off-the-shelf solution for simplifying or replacing your current complex signal generation set-up. Backwards compatibility with other Tektronix signal generators means you don’t need to re-learn a set-up process. Finally, the ability to automate tests using Matlab scripts makes it a simpler set-up end-to-end.

Highlights

• AWG backwards compatibility

• Create waveforms using Matlab commands

• Digital up-conversion, wide range of clean, output power provides VSG-like capabilities