Agilent Technologies has announced three new options and extended functionality for its M9703A AXIe eight-channel wideband digital receiver/digitizer that address the growing need for better, faster measurements in the communications and aerospace/defense industries.
The new M9703A-FRF option delivers increased dynamic range and sensitivity over the full input frequency range for improved analog performance, with optimized analog-to-digital conversion. This option offers improvements of 0.3 effective bits, 2 dB signal-to-noise ratio, and 4 dB spurious-free dynamic range.
The M9703A-LDC option enables fast and flexible measurements, with real-time digital downconversion (DDC) on the data for up to 80 MHz analysis bandwidth (160 MHz in I+jQ mode) with center frequencies from DC up to 2 GHz. The wide input frequency range, combined with a very low noise power spectral density (down to -145 dBm/Hz, which is comparable to a 16-bit digitizer), make the M9703A a step toward a fully digital receiver. In addition, the M9703A-LDC provides an accelerated connection to the software measurement layer, such as Agilent’s 89600 Vector Signal Analysis software.
The M9703A-M16 option provides 16 GB of onboard memory, corresponding to 1 G sample per second per channel, for applications requiring a long acquisition time.
“RF communications and aerospace/defense applications are moving toward a fully digital architecture,” Mario Narduzzi, modular solutions marketing manager for Agilent Technologies, said. “This requires the continuous analysis of an increasingly wide variety of signals, while ensuring the best measurement fidelity. To address these demands, the M9703A provides flexible and accurate measurements over a large number of phase-coherent channels for modern multichannel applications.”
