07 | Keysight | M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver - Data Sheet

For specific applications the M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/

Wideband Digital Receiver can be configured with specific

options:

– CB0: Digitizer streaming and recording

– CB2: Digital down converter streaming and recording at

1.6 GS/s

– BB1: High fidelity digitizer

CB0 digitizer streaming and recording

CB0 is a turnkey reference bundle, based on the continuous

simultaneous acquisition and readout architecture, implementing

a real time digitizer data recorder for gapless acquisition. It

includes a command line application ensuring performance of

viewer application is also provided.

This digitizer streaming and recording option with bundled appli-

cations provides:

– Guaranteed recording specification

– Various recording speed controlled by application

– Adaptable sampling rate (decimation and external clock)

– Data throughput optimization (12-bit, 10-bit or 8-bit mode).

This option is added on top of a M9203A pre-configured version

composed of:

– 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (-SR2) or up to 2 GS/s (-SR2, -INT,

with external clock)

– Full bandwidth (-F10)

– 4 GB acquisition memory (-M40)

– Digitizer firmware (-DGT)

The digitizer data streamer application is an intuitive command

line application which allows to control the M9203A and adapts

its data rate to the target application.

The data viewer is a graphical user interface (GUI) application

which allows to read, display, select and export the data stored.

2 GB/s

SSD

Data

Storage

M9203A PXIe Digitizer

Channel 2

Channel 1

Up to 3 GB/s

Recommended

Host PC

CB2 digital down-conversion streaming and

recording

This bundle enables continuous gapless acquisition, implementing:

– Digital down converter functionality in real time

– Data steaming to host

– Multichannel recording to disk all I/Q samples for later analysis.

– Independent local-oscillators, with phase-coherency between

channels.

The -CB2 option is added on top of a M9203A pre-configured

version composed of:

– 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (-SR2)

– Full bandwidth (-F10)

– 4 GB acquisition memory (-M40)

– Digitizer firmware (-DGT)

This option provides:

– Guaranteed recording specification up to 320 MHz

instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) with tunable intermediate

frequency with recommended configuration.

– Data throughput optimization (I/Q samples with 32-bit, 16-bit

or 12-bit mode).

The option includes an intuitive command line application allowing

to control the M9203A and a data viewer providing a simple

graphical user interface (GUI) which allows to read, display, select

and export the data stored.

Maximum streaming and recording performance is guaranteed

using an additional qualified host computer system with specific

BB1 high fidelity digitizer

This high fidelity digitizer option provides enhanced performance

by:

– Compensating the ADC and front-end distortion

– Minimizing interleave spurs

– Reducing the overall noise bandwidth.

This results in highly improved and uniform measurement fidelity

across the useful bandwidth, which greatly benefits RF and wireless

frequency domain measurements. The digitizer’s post processing

compensation also delivers better spurious-free dynamic range

(SFDR) and intermodulation product (IMx) specifications.

This application option is pre-configured with:

– 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (-SR2)

Leaving choice of bandwidth and memory, for optional use in -BB1

mode, recommendation is:

– 650 MHz bandwidth (-F05)

– 256 MB acquisition memory (-M02)

It allows the following usage as high fidelity digitizer:

– 1.6 GS/s with 650 MHz bandwidth, up to 64 MSamples/ch.

– 800 MS/s with 400 MHz bandwidth, up to 32 MSamples/ch.

– 400 MS/s with 200 MHz bandwidth, up to 16 MSamples/ch.

– 200 MS/s with 100 MHz bandwidth, up to 8 MSamples/ch.

– 100 MS/s with 50 MHz bandwidth, up to 4 MSamples/ch.

1. Application options are delivered on the high-speed digitizer DVD.

2. Equivalent to: 2 GS/s in 8-bit mode, 1.6 GS/s in 10-bit mode, and

1.3 GS/s in 12-bit mode.

3. To reach the guaranteed performances the system requires both an

external computer and data storage.

4. Keysight proposes full system and installation services. Please contact

support at digitizers@keysight.com for additional information.

Figure 6. Streaming options (-CB0, -CB2) are proposed with a recommended host

Maximum streaming and recording performance is guaranteed

using an additional qualified host computer system with specific