Anritsu MG3690C series RF/microwave signal generators

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The MG3690C series of RF/microwave signal generators combines phase noise and broad frequency generation to allow users to conduct accurate tests on subsystems, especially those in local oscillator substitution and clock generation applications.

The overall performance makes them suitable for testing microwave components, subsystems and systems during design and manufacturing as well as for signal simulation to test and verify radar and communications systems.

The generators are the latest member of the company’s synthesiser family that generates signals from 0.1 Hz to 70 GHz, enabling baseband, IF, RF and microwave signals to be produced from a single instrument.

Options set a new level for low phase noise of -115 dB/Hz at 20 GHz and 10 kHz offset. This means that devices under test are stimulated with known good signals, enhancing the integrity of the measurement and reducing time tracking down test equipment-induced measurement problems.

The series is also suitable for digital datacom applications, as the low phase noise minimises instrument-induced clock jitter.

The device can generate narrow pulses down to 10 ns to emulate a wide variety of signals. Amplitude levelled pulses down to 100 ns can be generated to minimise amplitude drift over time and temperature for tight test margins.

Amplitude levelled pulses also eliminate the need for a CW mode during frequency change and minimise the chances of the DUT becoming damaged.

The series can generate doublet, triplet and quadruplet pulses with independently set spacing and pulse width, making the generators suitable for emulating a wide range of radar returns.