Agilent M9202A PXI-Express Wideband IF Digitizer Data Sheet 12-bit, 2 GS/s, 1 GHz TM Challenge the Boundaries Agilent Modular Products A p p l i c ati o ns OV ERV IE W • Aerospace and defense • Wireless communication I n tr o du c ti o n • Radar and Wideband signal capture The Agilent Technologies M9202A is a very fast PXIe IF digitizer featuring wide analog bandwidth, making it ideal for Automated Test Equipment (ATE) in Aerospace & Defense applications such as Military Mobile Repair Stations, Radar Test or any application requiring wideband signal capture and at the same time very high dynamic range. Thanks to its PXI Express backplane connection, the M9202A supports continuous data streaming to disk. F eatures • 2 GS/s sampling rate • Up to 1 GHz bandwidth • SFDR = 60 dBc (typical) in basic digitizer mode • SFDR = 84 dBc (typical) after digital downconversion (with DDC option)1 Pr o du c t D e s c r i p t i o n • Dither function2 The M9202A is a one-slot 3U PXIe 12-bit Wideband IF Digitizer running at 2 GS/s, with up to 1 GHz instantaneous analog bandwidth and providing a large 512 Mbytes DDR3 memory. The M9202A features a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA that can implement different functionalities depending on which firmware option you choose. • AC-coupled 50 Ω input impedance The BAS option provides basic digitizer functionality allowing capture of a signal, storing of data in the memory and/or transferring it through the backplane connectors for example. • 512 MB DDR3 Memory • +4 dBm full scale range (dither disabled2) • Basic digitizer functionality • Real-time digital Down Conversion algorithm (with DDC option) • On-board Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA • Data streaming through PXI Express backplane • IVI-C, IVI-COM, LabVIEW and MATLAB drivers The DDC option, in addition to basic digitizer functionality, implements a Digital Down Conversion (DDC) algorithm in the 300 MHz to 700 MHz band, improving the analog performance such as the Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) or Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and reducing data upload time. C us to mer val ues • Fast PXIe 12-bit IF Digitizer • Capture wide bandwidth signals The M9202A also provides a continuous digitized data streaming capability through the V05 and V10 options. The V05 option offers up to 50 MHz analog bandwidth streaming via the back-plane connector, whereas the V10 option allows an unprecedented gapfree analog bandwidth streaming of up to 100 MHz in PXI format. • High dynamic range acquisition for better measurement fidelity • Large on-board memory • Data decimation for analog performance and data upload time improvement • Continuous stream of wideband signals (up to 100 MHz) When integrated in the Agilent M9392A PXI Vector Signal Analyzer, and combined with the 89601 software, the M9202A provides a complete signal analyzer solution enabling analysis of communications, radar and avionics signals up to 26.5 GHz in a modular open-system standard. • Software support including multiple programmatic interfaces for easy integration into existing test environments • Reduced development time 1 2 2 Depends on DDC parameters settings (only with DDC firmware option) Dither only available with DDC option EASY SET UP ... T ES T ... A N D M A I N T E N A N C E H a r d w ar e p l a t f o rm Software applications In addition, the M9202A includes the Agilent MD1 soft front panel (SFP) graphical interface. This simple software application can be used to control, verify the functionality and explore the capabilities of the Agilent modular high-speed digitizers. The MD1 SFP provides several different measurement and display capabilities, one being a real-time FFT plot of the acquired signal. Compliance The M9202A is PXI Express compliant, using either a PXIe or a PXIe Hybrid slot. Designed to benefit from fast data interfaces, the products can be integrated with other test and automation modules in PXIe and Hybrid chassis. The PXI format offers high performance in a small, rugged package. It is an ideal deployment platform for many automated test systems. A wide array of complementary PXI products are currently available, including multimeters, waveform generators, local oscillators, digitizers, downconverters and switch multiplexers. S oftw ar e p l a t f o rm IO Libraries Agilent IO Libraries Suite offers FAST and EASY connection to instruments and the newest version extends that capability to include modular instruments. The Agilent IO Libraries Suite helps you by displaying ALL the modules in your system, whether they are PXI, PXIe, or PCIe. From here you can view information about the installed software or launch the modules’ soft front panel directly from Agilent Connection Expert. The Agilent MD1 soft front panel software has two main windows, the acquisition parameters to control the module and the acquired waveform display. In addition, the Agilent Connection Expert (ACE) offers an easy way to find the correct driver for your instrument. Drivers The M9202A Wideband IF Digitizer is supplied with a comprehensive portfolio of module drivers, documentation, examples, and software tools to help you quickly develop test systems with your software platform of choice. The module comes with IVI-COM, IVI-C, LabVIEW and MATLAB software drivers that work in the most popular T&M development environments including, LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI from National Instruments, MATLAB from The MathWorks, Microsoft C/ C++, C#, and VB.NET. Agilent MD1 SFP acquired signal FFT display. Easy software integration Figure 1. Soft front panel To help you get started and complete complex tasks quickly, the module software is provided with context sensitive help, complete documentation and code examples that allow a quick module set up and basic acquisition functionalities. These code examples can be easily modified, so that the card can be quickly integrated into a measurement system. Included are application code examples for LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Visual Studio C, C++, and C#, Visual Basic, and MATLAB which provide digitizer set up and basic acquisition functionality. These application code examples are easily modified to quickly integrate the module into your measurement system. 3 Firmware options Product configuration The M9202A provides two main firmware options: BAS (basic digitizer firmware) and DDC (digital downconversion firmware). The M9202A is based on a modular architecture allowing various product configuration options according to customer requirements. Any configuration must include the product base (M9202A), a number of channels, the sampling rate, amount of memory size and one firmware option. The BAS option features a basic digitizer firmware that allows digitizing signals up to 1 GHz at 2 GS/s with a resolution of 12-bit. The digitized data can be stored in the on-board memory and/or transferred through the PXIe backplane. Calibration intervals The DDC option, in addition to the basic digitizer functionality, implements a real-time digital downconversion and decimation on the digitized data, allowing to fully analyzing signals of up to 250 MHz bandwidth. DDC settings as dithering level, data bandwidth, trigger bandwidth and frequency shift are variable in order to satisfy customer needs. One can change the center frequency, set the amount of digital filtering applied to the data and make dramatic improvements in the ADC’s harmonic distortion performance by changing these parameters settings. In order to get the best results from the DDC firmware, anti-alias filtering should be performed on the signal prior to entering the digitizer. A bandpass filter, with a passband of 375 to 625 MHz with excellent stopband rejection at the nearest image band centered at 1.5 GHz on the upper side, and nominal stopband rejection up to the highest subharmonic of an in-band signal (625 / 2 = 312.5 MHz) on the lower side is recommended. The signal should peak to -2 dBm at the digitizer input for optimum performance with the DDC algorithm. The M9202A is factory calibrated and shipped with a calibration certificate. Calibration is recommended every year in order to verify product performance. In addition, the M9202A also provides the V05 and V10 options, which feature continuous digitized data streaming capability through the PXI Express backplane. The V05 option allows to stream up to 50 MHz analog bandwidth, whereas the V10 option doubles the data transfer speed in order to reach an unprecedented 100 MHz gap-free analog bandwidth streaming in PXI format. 4 T E CHNIC A L S P EC IFIC A T I O N S A N D C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S Analog Input (INPUT 1 SMA connector) Number of channels 1 (one) Impedance 50 Ω (nominal) Coupling AC VSWR < 1.5, (nominal) @ 500 MHz Full scale (FS) ranges +4 dBm (1 V pk-pk in 50 Ω) Maximum input level +30 dBm (continuous without damage) -3dB Bandwidth (no filters) 30 MHz (nominal) to 1 GHz Frequency response flatness ± 1 dB, typical for a frequency range of 100 MHz to 800 MHz No digital processing (Digitizer mode) Spurious-Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) 1 @ 125 MHz 54 dBc (60 dBc, typical) @ 410 MHz 54 dBc (60 dBc, typical) @ 925 MHz 49 dBc (55 dBc, typical) Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) 1 @ 125 MHz –59 dBc (–65 dBc, typical) @ 410 MHz –57 dBc (–63 dBc, typical) @ 925 MHz Signal to Noise Ratio –49 dBc (–55 dBc, typical) 2 @ 125 MHz 52 dBc (56 dBc, typical) @ 410 MHz 51 dBc (55 dBc, typical) @ 925 MHz 48 dBc (52 dBc, typical) @ 125 MHz 9 bits (typical) @ 410 MHz 8.8 bits (typical) @ 925 MHz 8.2 bits (typical) ENOB 2 With Digital Downconversion (DDC mode) 3 Spurious-Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) 4 1 2 3 4 @ 300 MHz (frequency shift = 187.5 MHz) 78 dBc (84 dBc, typical) @ 410 MHz (frequency shift = 93.75 MHz) 78 dBc (84 dBc, typical) @ 650 MHz (frequency shift = –156.25 MHz) 77 dBc (83 dBc, typical) Measured for a –1 dBFS input signal in internal clock mode. Measured for a –1 dBFS input signal in internal clock mode, considering the 2nd through 6th harmonics. Only with DDC option Average of 20 measurements on 16384 complex points for a -1 dBFS input signal in internal clock mode. Data Bandwidth = 50 MHz and Dither level = 12 as DDC parameters. 5 T E CHNIC A L S P EC IFIC A T I O N S A N D C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S , CONTINUED Digital Conversion Digitizer modes Basic digitizer or DDC digitizer 1 Resolution 12 bits Acquisition memory 512 MB (256 MSamples real, 128 MSamples complex) Sample clock sources Internal or external Internal clock source Internal or external reference Real-time sampling rates 2 GS/s Sampling jitter (internal reference) 200 fs RMS (nominal) Clock accuracy ± 2 ppm External clock source (CLK 1 IN SMA connector) Impedance 50 Ω (nominal) Modes Continuous Frequency range 1 GHz Signal power level +7 dBm (1.4 V pk-pk in 50 Ω) ± 3 dB Coupling AC External Reference clock (REF IN MMCX connector) Impedance 50 Ω (nominal) Frequency range 100 MHz ± 1% (nominal) Signal power level +2 dBm ± 5 dB (nominal) Coupling AC Maximum power level +7 dBm Time stamps Records trigger time differences with 250 ps (nominal) resolution Acquisition modes Single shot Digital Downconversion (DDC option only) 1 Digitizer modes Basic digitizer or DDC digitizer Recommended input signal peak level –2 dBm Flip band Enabled or disabled IF Frequency 500 MHz Usable data bandwidth (DBW) 250 MHz and 200 MHz/2n (n = 0, 1, 2, …, 18) Trigger bandwidth 250 MHz and 200 MHz/2n (n = 0, 1, 2, …, 18) Frequency shift [0, ±Y] + [0, ±2Y] + [0, ±4Y] + … + [0, ±125 MHz], where Y = 2.5xDBW/4 for DBW ≤ 200 MHz Dither levels 0, 1, 2, …, 31, where 31 = FS/2 (recommended: 14) Only with DDC option 6 T E CHNIC A L S P EC IFIC A T I O N S A N D C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S , CONTINUED Trigger Trigger modes Edge (positive, negative) Trigger sources External (TRG 1, TRG 2, TRG 3), Software and Magnitude (only with DDC option) Trigger delay Pre-trigger Adjustable to 100% of acquisition window Post-trigger Adjustable up to 231-1 samples External trigger (TRG 1, TRG 2, TRG 3 MMCX connectors) Coupling DC Impedance 50 Ω Level range ± 5 V (nominal) Maximum overload protection ±5V Amplitude range 0.5 V pk-pk Environmental and physical Temperature range 1 Operating Non-Operating 0 °C to 50 °C -40 °C to +70 °C Relative humidity Type tested at 95%, +40°C (non-condensing) Safety Complies with EN61010-1 EMC Complies with European EMC Directive 2004/108/EC • IEC/EN 61326-1 or IEC/EN 61326-2-1 • CISPR Pub 11 Group 1, class A • AS/NZS CISPR 11 • ICES/NMB-001 This ISM device complies with Canadian ICES-001. Cet appareil ISM est conforme a la norme NMB-001 du Canada. Warm-up time 15 minutes, max Power dissipation +3.3 V +12 V Total power 2.1 A (nominal) 1.8 A (nominal) 28.5 W (nominal) Dimensions • 3U/1-slot PXI-Express • Chassis slot compatibility: PXIe Hybrid, PXIe • Front panel complies with IEEE1101.10 certification Weight 0.8 lb/0.4 kg System requirements 1 2 Operating Systems Windows XP, Service Pack 3 or later (32-bit) Windows Vista, SP1 and SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Business, Ultimate, Enterprise, Home Basic, and Home Premium Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise Processor speed 600 MHz or higher required 800 MHz recommended 1 GHz 32-bit (x86), 1 GHz 64-bit (x64), no support for Itanium 64 1 GHz 32-bit (x86), 1 GHz 64-bit (x64), no support for Itanium 64 Available Memory 256 MB minimum (1 GB or greater recommended) 1 GB minimum 1 GB minimum Available Disk Space 1 1.5 GB available hard disk space, includes: • 1 GB available for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 2 • 100 MB for Agilent IO Libraries Suite 1.5 GB available hard disk space, includes: • 1 GB available for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 2 • 100 MB for Agilent IO Libraries Suite 1.5 GB available hard disk space, includes: • 1 GB available for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 2 • 100 MB for Agilent IO Libraries Suite Video Super VGA (800x600) 256 colors or more Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB graphics memory recommended (Super VGA graphics is supported) Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB graphics memory recommended (Super VGA graphics is supported) Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or greater Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or greater Samples of this product have been type tested in accordance with the Agilent Environmental Test Manual and verified to be robust against the environmental stresses of Storage, Transportationand End-use; those stresses include but are not limited to temperature, humidity, shock, vibration, altitude and power line conditions. Test Methods are aligned with IEC 60068-2 and levels are similar to MIL-PRF-28800F Class 3. NET Framework Runtime Components are installed by default with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Therefore, you may not need this amount of available disk space. 7 CONF IGURA T ION H a r d w ar e Model 1 ● ● ● Description Base M9202A PXIe IF Digitizer: 12-bit, 1 GHz Channels M9202A-C01 Single channel Frequency range/Sampling rate M9202A-F02 ● ● Memory M9202A-M05 Firmware M9202A-DDC M9202A-BAS Streaming M9202A-V05 M9202A-V10 ● R el ated p ro d uc ts Frequency range: 2 GS/s Standard memory: 512 MB Digital down-conversion firmware Basic Digitizer firmware Streaming, 50 MHz bandwidth Streaming, 100 MHz bandwidth Model Description M9302A PXI Local Oscillator: 3 GHz to 10 GHz M9351A PXI Downconverter: 50 MHz to 2.9 GHz M9361A PXI Downconverter: 2.75 GHz to 26.5 GHz M9362A-D01 PXIe Microwave Quad Downconverter: 10 MHz to 26.5 GHz M9360A PXI Attenuator/Preselector: 100 kHz to 26.5 GHz M9392A PXI Vector Signal Analyzer M9211A PXI-H UWB IF Digitizer: 10-bit, 4 GS/s, 3 GHz M9018A 18-slot PXIe Chassis M9021A PCIe Cable Interface 89601 VSA software Required options: at least one option has to be selected in each of these groups. Recommended configuration 1 For the M9202A to work properly, at least one PXI Express chassis and one PXI controller type must be available. A c c es s or i e s So ftw are Description Software and product information on CD (included) Cables (included) M9202A PXIe IF Digitizer CLK 1 IN ADC REF IN TRG 1 TRG 2 TRG 3 TRG OUT DDR 3 Memory DDC PCIe bus INPUT 1 Time base FPGA Figure 2. Simplified block diagram of the M9202A PXIe IF Digitizer. 8 Model Description Supported operating systems Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista (32/64-bit), Microsoft Windows 7 (32/64-bit) Standard compliant drivers IVI-COM, IVI-C, LabVIEW, MATLAB Supported application development environments (ADE) VisualStudio (VB.NET, C#, C/C++), LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, MATLAB Agilent IO Libraries Includes: VISA Libraries, Agilent Connection Expert, IO Monitor O RD ERING 1 WARRANTY AND CALIBRATION Model 1 Description Advantage Services: Calibration and Warranty M9202A PXIe IF Digitizer: 12-bit, 1 GHz M9202A-C01 Single channel Agilent Advantage Services is committed to your success throughout your equipment’s lifetime. M9202A-F02 Frequency range: 2 GS/s Included 3-year warranty (return to Agilent), standard M9202A-M05 Standard memory: 512 MB R-51B-001-5Z 5-year return to Agilent warranty assurance plan M9202A-BAS Basic Digitizer firmware M9202A-DDC Digital down-conversion firmware M9202A-V05 Streaming, 50 MHz bandwidth M9202A-V10 Streaming, 100 MHz bandwidth For the M9202A to work properly, at least one PXI Express chassis and one PXI controller type must be available. Defin ition s f o r s p e c i f i c a t i o ns Specifications describe the warranted performance of calibrated instruments that have been stored for a minimum of 2 hours within the operating temperature range of 0 to 50 °C, unless otherwise stated, and after a 45 minute warm-up period. Data represented in this document are specifications unless otherwise noted. Characteristics describe product performance that is useful in the application of the product, but that is not covered by the product warranty. Characteristics are often referred to as Typical or Nominal values. • Typical describes characteristic performance, which 80% of instruments will meet when operated over a 20 to 30 °C temperature range. Typical performance is not warranted. • Nominal describes representative performance that is useful in the application of the product when operated over a 20 to 30 °C temperature range. Nominal performance is not warranted. Note: All graphs contain measured data from several units at room temperature unless otherwise noted. 9 T h e Mo d u l ar Tang r am The four-sided geometric symbol that appears in this document is called a tangram. The goal of this seven-piece puzzle is to create identifiable shapes—from simple to complex. As with a tangram, the possibilities may seem infinite as you begin to create a new test system. 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