Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced 10 new PXIe instruments, including the industry's first PXI oscilloscopes and a new arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) with three highly synchronized channels for precision tuning of IQ waveforms and envelope tracking.

The arbitrary waveform generator and oscilloscope provide up to 1 GHz bandwidth to support complex baseband IQ signal generation and analysis for evaluating the latest 5G and wideband technologies in the aerospace and defense industries.

The new product includes an arbitrary waveform generator and digitizer, allowing engineers to build core functionality into the instrument or insert custom algorithms into the onboard FPGA. While approaching the maximum performance and speed of FPGAs, the graphical design environment makes it easy to add custom configurations needed for new technology research and design.

The M3300A arbitrary waveform generator and digitizer uses an FPGA and PXI reference clock to provide real-time sequencing and multi-channel/multi-module synchronization, supporting advanced multi-channel applications such as multi-user beamforming technology and quantum computing.

“Research engineers are constantly looking for ways to advance technology and achieve new achievements,” said Roger Nichols, Keysight’s 5G program manager. “Keysight’s new cost-effective PXIe solution delivers the performance they need to get the job done, along with the flexibility to generate and process real-time and decision-making signals, and a new level of easy customization.”

Ideal for generating high-resolution waveforms for radar and satellite testing, as well as digitally modulated waveforms for wideband communications systems, the M9336A PXIe arbitrary waveform generator offers a variety of independent or synchronized signal outputs. The M9336A offers 16-bit analysis, up to 1 GHz of modulation bandwidth, and individual channel offset and skew control in a single-slot PXIe module. Engineers can create industry-standard and custom waveforms for arbitrary waveform generators using Signal Studio, MATLAB, Waveform Creator, or other tools, and integrate them into multiple application development environments.

The M9243A PXle oscilloscope, built on Keysight's InfiniiVision oscilloscope technology, offers up to 1 GHz of bandwidth for rapid analysis and troubleshooting of wideband signals. With a 1,000,000 waveforms-per-second update rate and enhanced ProBeam technology, the oscilloscope enables troubleshooting of random and intermittent signals. Powerful features include cursors and marks, advanced triggering, waveform averaging, masks, and 31 selectable measurements. When combined with the 89600 VSA software, the scope allows engineers to demodulate and evaluate complex IQ waveforms with a bandwidth of 1 GHz.