Keysight Technologies M8196A Getting Started Manual
Keysight M8196A
Arbitrary Waveform
Generator
Getting Started Guide
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Please follow this instruction:
Before touching the front-panel
connectors, discharge yourself by
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mainframe.
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instructions.
Environment
within it.
mainframe.
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Safety Summary
General Safety
Precautions
General
The following general safety precautions must be observed during all phases of
operation of this instrument. Failure to comply with these precautions or with
specific warnings elsewhere in this manual violates safety standards of design,
manufacture, and intended use of the instrument. For safe operation the general
safety precautions for the M9502A and M9505A AXIe chassis, must be followed.
See: http://www.keysight.com/find/M9505A
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degree 2 environment. It is designed to operate within a temperature range of 0
°C – 40 °C (32 °F – 105 °F) at a maximum relative humidity of 80% and at altitudes
of up to 2000 meters.
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The Keysight M8196A operates when installed in an Keysight AXIe mainframe.
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Contents
1 Introduction
2 M8196A Software Installation
3 AXle Chassis
4 M8196A Maintenance
Contents
2.1 Pre-Requisites 9
2.2 Installation Process 10
2.3 Post Installation Steps 18
2.4 How to use the Instrument 19
3.1 ESM Front Panel Connector21
4.1 ESD Protection 24
5 Characteristics
4.2 Power and Ventilation Requirements 25
4.3 Thermal Protection 25
4.4 Battery 25
4.5 Cleaning Recommendation 25
5.1 Performance Specification 27
5.2 Operating Environment 27
5.3 General 27
ysight M8196A – Arbitrary Waveform Generator Getting Started Guide 5
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Keysight M8196A – Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Introduction
Features and
Benefits
AXIe system controller M9536A
Getting Started Guide
1 Introduction
The Keysight M8196A is a 92 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator with highest
bandwidth and channel density. It offers up to 4 x 512 kSa waveform memory. The
M8196A is ideally suited to address following key applications:
• Coherent optical – a single M8196A module can generate 2 independent
I/Q baseband signals (dual polarization = 4 channels) at 64 Gbaud and
beyond.
• Multi-level / Multi-channel digital signals – generate NRZ, PAM4, PAM8,
DMT, etc. signals at up to 56 Gbaud. Embed/De-embed channels, add
Jitter, ISI, noise and other distortions.
• Physics, chemistry, and electronics research – generate any mathematically
defined arbitrary waveforms, ultra-short yet precise pulses and extremely
wideband chirps.
• Wideband RF/µW – generate extremely wideband RF signals with an
instantaneous bandwidth of DC to 32 GHz for
aerospace/defense/communication applications.
The M8196A is an arbitrary waveform generator with highest sample rate,
bandwidth, and channel density:
• Sample rate up to 92 GSa/s (on each channel)
• Analog bandwidth: 32 GHz
• Vertical resolution: 8 bits
• 1, 2, or 4 differential channels per 1-slot high AXIe module (number of
channels is software upgradable)
• Built-in frequency and phase response calibration
• Amplitude up to 1 Vpp (single ended) (2 Vpp (differential))
• VT
Rise,20%...80% TFall,20%...80%
• Ultra low intrinsic Random Jitter RJ
• Form factor: 1-slot AXIe module controlled via external PC or embedded
:9 ps (typ.)
< 130 fs
rms
1 Introduction
Getting Started with
M8196A
Additional
Documents
The M8196A is a modular instrument packaged in the AXIe form factor. AXIe is an
open standard for high-performance modular instrumentation. Different form factors
of AXIe chassis are available: 13-slot, 5-slot and 2-slot AXIe chassis.
An M9536A AXIe embedded controller can control one or multiple M8196A AWG.
This embedded controller consumes one module slot of the AXIe chassis. Besides
using an embedded controller, the M8196A AWG can be controlled by an external
desktop PC or an external laptop as well through PCIe or USB port. In case of PCIe, a
PCIe adapter card and PCIe cable are needed whereas USB connection simply
requires a USB cable.
When the M8196A AWG, AXIe chassis, PCIe cable, PCIe adapter card and PC are
ordered separately the different components come in different packages and need to
be installed. Please follow the instructions given in chapter 3 of M8196A user’s guide
or the instructions given in the user’s guide of the AXIe chassis.
In case an M9536A embedded controller has been ordered as part of the
M8196A-BUx system configuration, the M8196A firmware is already installed and
configured on the embedded controller.
User set up:
Username: M8196a_admin
Password: admin!123
Directory of the software:
Firmware:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Keysight\M8196\bin
Additional documentation can be found at:
• http://www.keysight.com/find/M9514A for 13-slot chassis related
documentation.
• http://www.keysight.com/find/M9505A for 5-slot chassis related
documentation.
• http://www.keysight.com/find/M9502A for 2-slot chassis related
documentation.
• http://www.keysight.com/find/M9047A for PCIe desktop adapter card related
documentation.
• http://www.keysight.com/find/M9536A for embedded AXIe controller related
documentation.
• http://www.keysight.com/find/M8196A for AXIe based AWG module related
documentation.
8 Keysight M8196A – Arbitrary Waveform Generator Getting Started Guide
Keysight M8196A – Arbitrary Waveform Generator
2.1 Pre-Requisites
Getting Started Guide
2 M8196A Software
Installation
2.1 Pre-Requisites / 9
2.2 Installation Process / 10
2.3 Post Installation Steps / 18
2.4 How to use the Instrument / 19
This chapter explains the steps required to install M8196A software package.
The following are the pre-requisites for installing Keysight M8196A software:
• The supported operating systems are:
− Window 10 (32 bit or 64 bit)
− Windows 8.1 (32 bit or 64 bit)
− Windows 8 (32 bit or 64 bit)
− Windows 7 (32 bit or 64 bit)
• Ensure that you have Keysight IO Libraries Suite Version 16.3 or higher
installed on your system. The Keysight IO Libraries Suite can be found on
the CD that is part of shipment content or at
http://www.keysight.com/find/iosuite.
Even if a non-Keysight I/O library is already installed on your PC, it is still necessary
to install the Keysight I/O library. The Keysight I/O library will install as “secondary”
I/O library in this case. This use case is fully supported. There only needs to be some
additional considerations when doing SCPI remote programming. For more
information on SCPI remote programming, refer to M8196A User's Guide.
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