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PXI and AXIe Modular Products Catalog September 2012

PXI and AXIe Modular Products Catalog September 2012
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Modular Products Challenge the Boundaries of Test Agilent Modular Products

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A Letter from our President Dear Valued Customer, I am pleased to present this new edition of the Agilent PXI and AXIe Modular Instruments catalog. Agilent’s modular instruments portfolio gives you expert measurement science in the PXI and AXIe form factors. As you look through it I hope you’ll find the measurement modules and companion software required for your test needs. They are optimized for testing applications that require high-performance, high-speed and highthroughput, and enable new capabilities that were not previously available across analog, digital, RF, microwave and...

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t able o f c ont ent s SECT ION Product Category Index 1 Introduction to the Modular Advantage 2 Modular Software Environment 3 Chassis and Controllers Bit Error Rate Testers 5 Data Acquisition and Switching 6 Digital Input Output 7 Digital Multimeters 8 Digitizing Scopes and Digitizers TM 4 9 Digital to Analog Converters 10 Function and Arbitrary Waveform Generators 11 Optical Extenders 12 Pulse Pattern Generators 13 Spectrum and Signal Analyzers 14 Vector Signal Generator 15 AXIe Modular Products 16 Software Applications 17 Recommended Computers 18 Creating a Complete Solution 19 Become a...

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PRODUCT CATEGORY INDEX

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Pro du c t c a t eg ory INd e x m o del descriptio n M9211A PXI-H UWB IF Digitizer: 10-bit, 4 GS/s, 3 GHz page 71 PXI Digital to a n a log co n verters M9185A PXI 8/16-Channel Isolated D/A Converter 75 M9186A PXI Isolated Single Channel Voltage/Current Source, 100 V 77 PXI F un ctio n a n d A RB I T RA RY W A VEFO RM G E N E R A T O R S M9330A PXI-H Arbitrary Waveform Generator: 15-bit, 1.25 GS/s 81 M9331A PXI-H Arbitrary Waveform Generator: 10-bit, 1.25 GS/s 83 pxie optical exte n ders M9403A M9403A PXIe Optical Transmitter: 300 kHz to 26.5 GHz or 50 GHz 87 M9404A M9404A PXIe Optical...

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Int ro duc t ion TO T HE M ODULAR AD V ANTAGE High performance and easy test system design... 2 For your data acquisition or automated test applications, your range of choices is getting bigger and better. Agilent modular instrumentation is an extension of Agilent’s measurement expertise into modular form factors, such as PXI and AXIe. In these form factors, Agilent helps you benefit from a large portfolio of chassis and measurement modules integrated with world-class software applications to get the most trusted measurements in the DC, analog, digital, RF, microwave and lightwave domains....

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INTRODUCT ION TO T HE M ODULAR AD V ANTAGE Why choose Agilent modular products? Agilent has been a pioneer in developing and supporting advanced modular platforms. From the early days of leveraging VMEbus and integrating timing and synchronization to create VXI to the popular 34970 and 34980 switching and data acquisition platforms, Agilent is taking its modular expertise to furthering advancements in PXI and AXIe. Measurement expertise Automation optimized software and hardware Integration tested with Agilent and industry system Open SW platform supporting MATLAB, VEE, LabVIEW,...

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INTRODUCT ION TO T HE M ODULAR AD V ANTAGE TM Is PXI the right choice for your application? To better understand if PXI is the right choice for your applications, let’s take a quick look at some of the benefits that a modular platform such as PXI has versus a standalone box instrument platform. Discover... Modular Platforms Standalone Box Platforms Higher measurement throughput Interactive measurements Greater flexibility/scalability Time to first measurements Integrated system Predictable system performance Smaller footprint Lower software investment Lower power No infrastructure...

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INTRODUCT ION TO T HE M ODULAR AD V ANTAGE Is AXIe the right choice for your application? What is AXIe? AXIe is a next-generation open standard based on Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) with extensions for instrumentation and test. This standard is governed by the AXIe Consortium, a group of leading organizations in the test and measurement industry and is designed to provide users with popular PC interfaces such as TCP/IP and PCI Express to modular configuration slots which provide resources for advanced instrumentation (www.axiestandard.org). AXIe’s key attributes As...

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INTRODUCT ION TO T HE M ODULAR AD V ANTAGE Is AXIe the right choice for your application? How is AXIe different than PXI? AXIe Interoperability While PXI has made a name for itself in automated validation and manufacturing test applications on the strengths of its compact size, low power draw, and best in low-cost commercial off-the-shelf ASICs and technologies, AXIe balances PXI by providing the complement of these aforementioned features. AXIe is built on the same PCI Express backplane fabric as PXI and the same LAN connectivity as LXI. This allows the three platforms to co-exist in the...

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EASY SETU P AND CONF I GURAT I ON Modular test systems require a variety of hardware and software components. When configuring your systems you need to ensure compatibility between the mechanical, electrical and software aspects and achieve successful operation. Agilent provides a wide variety of tools to accelerate your system setup and give you confidence in its operation. S ta r tu p A s si st ance An Agilent Technologies applications engineer can help you get started quickly by installing the modules in a chassis, configuring the controller, loading software and making your first...

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ACCELERATE SYSTEM DE V ELO P M ENT S o f tw a r e . . .Yo u C ho o se ! Agilent’s M easurement Sc ienc e To support your software choice, every Agilent module includes the IVI-COM, IVI-C, LabVIEW and MATLAB software drivers that work in the most popular T&M development environments including, Visual Studio® (VB. NET, C#, C/C++), VEE, LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and MATLAB. The instrument drivers provide context sensitive help+such as Microsoft IntelliSense and LabVIEW hoverhelp+complete documentation, and examples to decrease startup time on complex tasks. Agilent’s PXI modular products are an...

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