AXIe High-Speed Digitizer/ • • • • • • • • Data Sheet Wideband Digital Receiver ***** DC up to 2 GHz input frequency range Agilent Modular Products

O VERV IE W Intr odu c tio n Pro d uct features The Agilent M9703A is a very fast versatile DC-coupled 12-bit wideband digital receiver/digitizer, providing exceptional measurement fidelity over multiple phase coherent channels. Based on the AXIe standard, offering eight acquisition channels in a single-slot card, it provides excellent channel density and flexible scalability. These features allow the implementation of a large number of high dynamic range, phase-coherent channels in a small volume, making the M9703A high-speed digitizer/wideband digital receiver ideal for multi-channel applications...

Product overview The M9703A is a flexible modular wideband digital receiver/ digitizer offering scalable features depending on application requirements. The standard configuration implements 8 channels of 12-bit resolution with DC to 650 MHz input frequency range (–3 dB analog bandwidth), and acquiring data at 1 GS/s. If higher speed is required, the -SR2 option enables the eight channels to sample at 1.6 GS/s. An interleave option (-INT) also allows two channels to be combined and reach 3.2 GS/s in 4-channel acquisition mode. For higher frequency signals, the -F10 option provides an extended...

Software applications Agilent IO Libraries Suite offers FAST and EASY connection to instruments using a standardize interface and ensure compatibility as well as upgradability of the software applications. In addition, the M9703A 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 Agilent IO Libraries Suite helps you by displaying ALL of the modules in your system. From here you can view information about the installed...

Firmware options The M9703A wideband digital receiver/digitizer provides a range of front-end options to adapt the digitization to the particular application requirements. These options are divided in three categories: The M9703A high-speed digitizer provides various firmware options: • • • • • Bandwidth The instantaneous analog bandwidth is the –3 dB compression point of the analog front-end frequency response. The M9703A provides two levels of instantaneous analog bandwidth. The default -F05 option provides an input frequency range of DC to 650 MHz, especially suited for baseband applications...

EASY SET UP ... T ES T ... A N D M A I N T E N A N C E , CON TIN UED Firmware options, The wideband capability of the M9703A, combined with its excellent signal sensitivity and dynamic range is a step toward a fully digital receiver, by reducing or suppressing the analog mixer stages. As an example, the M9703A wideband digital receiver/ digitizer can directly digitize DVB-T signals, especially interesting for passive radar applications. When combined with the M9362A-D01 quad-channel downconverter, the M9703A allows capture and analysis of wideband signals up to 50 GHz. These three functions allow...

TECHNICA L S P EC IFIC A T IO N S A N D CH A R A CT E R I S T I CS Analog input (IN1 to IN8 SMA connectors) Number of channels 8 (eight), 8 or 4 (with INT option) Full scale ranges (FSR) Maximum input voltage Input frequency range (–3 dB bandwidth) DC to 1.9 GHz (typical) in 1V FSR at 1 GS/s or 1.6 GS/s DC to 2.0 GHz (typical) in 2V FSR at 1 GS/s or 1.6 GS/s DC to 1.4 GHz (typical) at 2 GS/s or 3.2 GS/s Offset accuracy ± 50 ps (nominal) in same module ± 150 ps (nominal) between multiple modules of same chassis Channel-to-channel skew stability 3 ± 7.2° (nominal) in same module ± 21.6° (nominal)...

TECHNICA L S P EC IFIC A T IO N S A N D CH A R A CT E R I S T I CS , CON TINUED Analog input (IN1 to IN8 SMA connectors), continued With -FRF option (optimized dynamic range) Effective bits (ENOB) 1 –45 dB (nominal) without correction filter –47 dB (nominal) with correction filter Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) 1 Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) Signal to Noise Distortion (SNR) –43 dB (nominal) without correction filter –45 dB (nominal) with correction filter Baseband IQ (BBIQ) characteristics Nominal EVM using Agilent 89600B VSA software SISO 802.11ac 256QAM –45 dB (nominal) without correction...

TECHNICA L S P EC IFIC A T IO N S A N D CH A R A CT E R I S T I CS , CON TINUED Digital conversion Resolution Acquisition memory (total) 1 GB (64M real samples/ch) 4 GB option (256M real samples/ch) 16 GB option (1G real samples/ch) Sample clock sources Internal clock source Internal, external or backplane reference Max. real-time sampling rates 1 GS/s per channel 1.6 GS/s per channel option 1-2 GS/s option 1.6-3.2 GS/s option Sampling jitter Clock accuracy External clock source (CLK IN SMA connector) Impedance Frequency range Signal level External reference clock (REF IN MCX connector) Impedance...

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS,CONTINUED Real-time digital downconversion (-LDC and -DDC options) Acquisition modes Basic digitizer or DDC digitizer1 2 Number of synchronous DDC channels 8 in a single module Up to 40 across 5 modules in a same M9505A chassis Frequency tuning range (LO) DC to 1.6 GHz (with -F10) Center frequency tuning resolution 0.01 Hz Independent channel center frequency tuning Yes Independent channel frequency span No Control 10 (I/O A and I/O B MMCX connectors) Functions Output Acquisition active Trigger accept resynchronization High level /. The real-time DDC...

TECHNICA L S P EC IFIC A T IO N S A N D C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S , CON TINUED Environmental and physical 1 Temperature Range Operating Non-operating Complies with European EMC Directive 2004/108/EC • IEC/EN 61326-1 • 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. Total Power 161 W (typical), with -DGT option 170 W (nominal), with -DDC option Mechanical characteristics Form factor System requirements Operating systems Windows XP, Service pack 3 Windows Vista, SP1 and...