Agilent’s 33500B Series waveform generators with exclusive Trueform signal generation technology offer more capability, fidelity and flexibility than traditional DDS generators. Easily generate the full range of signals you need to test your devices with confidence the signal generator is outputting the signals you expect with 12x less jitter and 5x less harmonic distortion. Take advantage of deep memory (1M points standard and optional 16M points) and waveform sequencing. Two-channel models allow you to use the channels independently or sync them in time, amplitude or both.
Q&A
What we would like to see in the road test?
Applications that take advantage of our Trueform technology. Some examples:
Applications that use multiple waveforms; sine waves, square waves, pulses, or custom waveforms.
Applications requiring low harmonic distortion sine waves
Applications that need pulses or square waves with low jitter.
Applications that need point-by-point arbitrary waveform capability – more accurate user defined waveforms.
Applications requiring deep memory or can take advantage of sequencing to create user defined waveforms.
An application that uses IQ signals or needs to output a data pair. E.g. A dual channel custom waveform
Are there certain application areas we would like folks working on?
We believe that most of the applications requiring Trueform Technology will be in: Research, Design, Product Development, Hardware Qualification, and Design Verification. It is less likely to find these applications in; Service, Installation, or Maintenance.
Reference Material
33500B Series Waveform Generator Data Sheet: click here
33500B Series Waveform Generator Quick Fact Sheet: click here
Testers will be selected on the basis of quality of applications: we expect a full and complete description of why you want to test this particular product.
Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review within 2 months of receipt of the product.
Failure to provide this review within the above timescale will result in the enrolee being excluded from future Road Tests.
Thank you all for applying. This RoadTest is now closed. We are pleased to announce the following members that have been selected to receive this Road Test:
Troy Mills
Kyle Krupinski
David Weight
Congratulations! Your product will be shipped to the address each of you provided when you applied for this RoadTest. As a reminder, element14 and our supplier partners send these products free-of-charge because we place high value upon your unbiased, detailed product review. Please post your review back here within 3-6 weeks of receiving your item.
For those who were not selected to win this product, we have the NXP LPC4330-Xplorer Board Road Test open for applicants
Voltage Resolution is a important one for testing ADCs ... 2mV can be a big deal, i would be looking forward to pushing it to it's limits by testing a 24bit ADC well actually who's limits are we pushing?
Anyway, i find this roadtest much valuable compared to the U1620 for me ( of course, IMHO ) because this is a very nice bit of kit!
High performance at not big of a dollar, 30MHz is actually alot compared to the likes of Tek but let's not go there
Plus you get *FULL* dual channels and you can assign Channel 1 as a input! No less is the massive (comparably) memory ...
Who's up to watch it being displayed on a CRO? I sure want to! For some reason i always love to test signal gens and curve tracers on CROs first rather than a DSO
When your testing the lower 4 bits of one of many ADCs at 10Mhz, 20Mhz, and 30Mhz, its required. Looking for 2mV fluctuations at high sampling rates...
