| Equipped with the largest 9-inch electrostatic touchscreen among AFGs
| InstaView, monitor DUT input waveforms directly
| Abbuilder, Improving Arbitrary Waveform Test Efficiency

On the 12th, Tektronix announced the 'AFG31000 Series' Arbitrary Function Generator (AFG).
The AFG31000 features an intuitive touchscreen and new UI, along with a variety of advanced measurement features to satisfy engineers and researchers who must consider increasingly complex test scenarios for debugging, troubleshooting, analyzing, and verifying target devices.

Although arbitrary function generators are widely used in electronic device testing, their usability is lower than that of other test devices due to problems such as small display screens and other learning and operation difficulties.

It also lacked sufficient memory and programming capabilities to write a series of test cases with complex timing that is critical to optimal testing efficiency. The AFG31000 is a next-generation arbitrary function generator that overcomes these problems.
The AFG31000 series features the largest 9-inch capacitive touchscreen among AFGs, allowing all relevant settings and parameters to be viewed within a simplified menu tree on a single screen. Just like modern touch-enabled smart devices, you can easily select, navigate, search and change settings by tapping or swiping. The intuitive user interface saves users time learning and operating the device, increasing productivity and efficiency.

Conventional AFGs assume they are driving an impedance of 50Ω. However, most devices under test (DUTs) often do not have an impedance of 50Ω. This mismatch causes impedance matching problems between the waveform set on the AFG and the signal on the DUT.

The new InstaView feature of the AFG31000 series can directly monitor and display the waveform input to the DUT without having to check the influence of cables or devices with a separate oscilloscope.

The waveform displayed on the display immediately responds to changes in frequency, amplitude, waveform, and even impedance of the DUT, saving time and increasing reliability.

The AFG31000 series provides an advanced or waveform sequencer mode in addition to the conventional AFG operation mode. In the advanced mode, up to 128 Mpts of the instrument’s waveform memory can be divided into up to 256 items, and users can quickly and easily define output waveforms by dragging and dropping long waveforms or multiple waveforms into the sequencer.
The large capacitive touchscreen and new ArbBuilder tool built into the AFG31000 series allow you to create and edit arbitrary waveforms directly on the instrument, without having to create them on a PC and transfer them to the instrument.

Abbuilder improves test efficiency, especially for arbitrary waveforms that must change frequently. Users who want to replicate waveforms captured on an oscilloscope can save the waveforms as a '.csv' file and load them directly into the AFG31000 using AbbBuilder.

Current AFG users who are well aware of the limitations of AFG can experience increased productivity and efficiency with the new sequencing and AbbBuilder features of the AFG31000 series. “The advanced features of the AFG31000 have allowed us to cut our typical setup and test cycle by nearly half,” said John Moore, Engineering Manager at TZ Medical.

The AFG31000 series devices are available in 1-channel or 2-channel configurations, offering sample rate performances of 250MSa/s, 1GSa/s or 2GSa/s and 14-bit vertical resolution. In addition, conventional AFG mode allows frequency to be changed without concern for waveform length and sample rate. Output amplitude ranges from 1mVP-P to 10VP-P into a 50Ω load.