RENT KEYSIGHT N5181B (Agilent) (call for availability)
The Keysight N5181B MXG RF Analog Signal Generator is your go-to solution for rigorous R&D applications. Engineered for precision and reliability, it excels in generating high-quality signals, enabling you to push your devices and designs to new limits. With impressive performance in phase noise, output power, and overall signal integrity, this generator meets all your testing needs:
- Assess radar receiver sensitivity or determine signal-to-noise ratios for ADCs and mixers with industry-leading phase noise and spurious performance.
- Drive receiver front-end tests with unmatched output power and exceptional out-of-band rejection.
- Simulate advanced multi-channel composite analog modulation with an integrated multifunction generator.
- Craft variable RADAR Pulse Repetition Intervals (PRI) and pulse widths using the integrated pulse train generator.
Key Features and Specifications:
- Signal Characteristics:
- Frequency Range: 9 kHz to 3 or 6 GHz
- Output Power: +24 dBm specified up to 3 GHz with electronic attenuator
- Phase Noise: -146 dBc at 1 GHz and 20 kHz offset
- Non-harmonics: -96 dBc at 1 GHz and > 10 kHz offset
- Modulation and Sweep:
- Supports AM, FM, ØM, pulse, and narrow pulse modulations
- Built-in pulse train generator
- 10 MHz multifunction generator with LF output
- Digital step and list sweep modes for enhanced testing flexibility
- Automation and Communication Interface:
- Connectivity: 1000BaseT LAN, LXI, USB 2.0, and GPIB
- Programming: SCPI, IVI-COM, and MATLAB drivers for easy integration
- Compatibility with ESG, MXG, PSG, and 8648x signal generators
- Agilent USB power sensor compatibility for embedded display and SCPI control
- Frequency Specifications:
- Frequency Range Options:
- Option 503: 9 kHz to 3 GHz
- Option 506: 9 kHz to 6 GHz
- Phase Offset: Adjustable in nominal 0.1° increments
- Frequency Switching Speed:
- CW Mode: SCPI Mode ≤ 5 ms, typical
- List/Step Sweep Mode: ≤ 5 ms, typical
- Frequency Reference:
- Accuracy: Adjustment resolution < 1 x 10^-10, nominal
- Temperature Effects: < ±2 x 10^-8 from 20 to 30 °C, nominal
- Line Voltage Effects: < ±1 x 10^-9 for ±10% change
- Reference Output:
- Amplitude: ≥ +4 dBm, nominal into 50 Ω load
- External Reference Input:
- Input Frequency: 10 MHz (standard)
- Amplitude: 5 dBm ± 2 dB, nominal
- Sweep Modes:
- Operating Modes:
- Step Sweep: equally spaced frequency and amplitude or logarithmically spaced frequency steps
- List Sweep: arbitrary list of frequency and amplitude steps
- Sweep Range: within instrument frequency range
- Dwell Time: 100 μs to 100 s
- Number of Points:
- Step Change: Linear or logarithmic
- Triggering Options: Free run, trigger key, external, timer, bus (GPIB, LAN, USB)
- Amplitude Specifications:
- Output Parameters:
- Settable Range: +30 to -144 dBm
- Resolution: 0.01 dB, nominal
- Step Attenuator: 0 to 130 dB in 5 dB steps, electronic type
- Connector: Type N 50 Ω, nominal
- Max Output Power:
- > 10 MHz to 3 GHz: +18 dBm
- Maximum Reverse Power, Nominal:
- Amplitude Switching Speed:
- CW Mode:
- SCPI mode: ≤ 5 ms, typical
- Power search SCPI mode: < 12 ms, measured
- List/Step Sweep Mode: ≤ 5 ms, typical
- Spectral Purity Specifications:
- Harmonics:
- 9 kHz to 3 GHz: < -35 dBc
- > 3 to 4 GHz: < -35 dBc, typical
- > 4 to 6 GHz: < -53 dBc, typical
- Nonharmonics (CW Mode):
- 9 kHz to < 5 MHz: -65 dBc, nominal
- 250 to < 750 MHz: -87 dBc
- 750 MHz to < 1.5 GHz: -87 dBc
- 1.5 to < 3.0 GHz: -81 dBc
- Subharmonics (CW Mode):
- > 1.5 to 3 GHz: -82 dBc (-91 dBc typical)
- > 3 to 6 GHz: -74 dBc (-81 dBc typical)
