1 00:00:03,700 --> 00:00:06,240 Welcome, and more importantly, thank you for joining our webinar. 2 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:10,699 I'm TJ Cartwright, the Product Marketing Manager for Signal Generators at Keysight. 3 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:15,060 I'm very excited to introduce our new MXG Vector Signal Generator. 4 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:21,460 Of course, it's beautiful, in my opinion, but it's also packed with features that help solve issues RF engineers face 5 00:00:21,460 --> 00:00:26,000 when designing wideband, multichannel, wireless, and aerospace defense applications. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,300 For example, when testing power amplifier components, 7 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:34,200 PA designers need to maintain power linearity versus signal quality to increase the power 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:40,520 to their debt. For military radio comms emulation, RF engineers have a confined space to generate a 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,600 variety of wireless signals. And RF engineers testing MIMO need a flexible multi-channel 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:51,399 signal generator or use multiple signal generators. And these are just some of the issues that RF 11 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:56,759 engineers are faced with. Our new MXG signal generator solves these challenges and so much 12 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:02,219 more. The best person to explain more about the new signal generator is Taylor Chlorine. She'll 13 00:01:02,219 --> 00:01:07,840 give us a deep dive into the details of our new MXG. Then Randy Becker will demo some key 14 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,219 measurements to show the performance and accuracy of the signals it generates. Let's wait and know 15 00:01:13,219 --> 00:01:18,799 more. Here's Taylor. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Taylor Chlorine and 16 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:23,879 I'm a signal generator product manager. I'm excited to introduce Keysight's newest signal 17 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:33,379 generator, the N5186A MXG vector signal generator. The introduction of our new MXG has been driven 18 00:01:33,379 --> 00:01:41,239 by new applications across multiple industries, from mobile device to radar systems. Some common 19 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:47,840 themes seen in these industries are requiring complex modulations, wider bandwidths, multiple 20 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:54,420 antenna techniques and higher frequencies. Keysight strives to meet these new requirements 21 00:01:54,420 --> 00:02:02,840 by improving our product platforms with new features or new products. Some of you may be 22 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:12,580 familiar with our MXG signal generators, like our N5182B Vector MXG. The N5186A is the newest 23 00:02:12,580 --> 00:02:19,340 addition to our MXG product family and expands Keysight's Vector Signal Generator portfolio. 24 00:02:20,180 --> 00:02:26,520 The N5186A is an exciting new product launch because it's a next-generation Vector Signal 25 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:34,360 Generator with Advanced Direct Digital Synthesis, or DDS, architecture. It leverages the same DAC 26 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:42,719 ASIC chip as our world-class M9484C VXG, so it is possible to achieve high performance 27 00:02:42,719 --> 00:02:51,659 in a denser, lower-cost solution. This MXG also delivers innovation for a seamless workflow 28 00:02:51,659 --> 00:02:59,400 by integrating more tools into the signal generator. The new MXG is the signal generator 29 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:07,159 that provides high performance in a compact and integrated solution. One of its most attractive 30 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:15,099 features is its size. Keysight's MXG signal generator portfolio is well known for its 2U 31 00:03:15,099 --> 00:03:23,259 rack height, and the N5186A continues the trend of a compact design while bringing additional 32 00:03:23,259 --> 00:03:30,900 functionality and performance to the platform. Keysight's previous generations of signal 33 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:39,199 generators typically had only one channel, or one RF output port. The requirement for multiple 34 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:46,159 antenna techniques drove Keysight to create a multi-channel solution, so bench or rack space 35 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:53,340 did not have to be sacrificed to meet these new requirements. The new MXG offers up to four 36 00:03:53,340 --> 00:04:01,460 channels or four RF output ports in one box. This has the potential to replace up to four 37 00:04:01,460 --> 00:04:08,860 signal generators in a test system, saving up to 75% of space or rack height. This makes it 38 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:16,000 especially suitable for manufacturing environments when cost per port or cost per DUT are critical metrics, or if you're wanting to run interference testing on an aircraft. 39 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:27,139 Thank you so much, Taylor, for introducing our new MXG signal generator and its powerful features. 40 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:32,139 As Taylor mentioned, we welcome your questions, so don't hesitate to drop those in the Q&A window. 41 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,439 To take the conversation even deeper right now into the performance of our new signal generator, 42 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:43,000 Randy Becker will show us a hands-on demonstration of the instrument and the performance improvements of its EVM and the ACLR compared to our previous generation MXG. Take it away, Randy. 43 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:55,670 Hi, I'm Randy Becker, an application engineer with Keysight Technologies. 44 00:04:56,209 --> 00:05:02,050 The next generation MXG vector signal generator is a general purpose metrology grade reference source. 45 00:05:02,529 --> 00:05:06,910 It has a lot of features and capabilities, making it perfect for a wide range of different engineering tasks 46 00:05:06,910 --> 00:05:10,850 for things like R&D, design verification, and even manufacturing 47 00:05:10,850 --> 00:05:16,529 for applications like power amplifier design, receiver design, and even phase-to-ray chipset testing. 48 00:05:17,329 --> 00:05:20,389 The MXG is based on a direct digital synthesis architecture, 49 00:05:20,389 --> 00:05:23,750 just like our flagship high-performance VXG series generators, 50 00:05:24,209 --> 00:05:26,649 making this an industry first for general-purpose sources. 51 00:05:27,170 --> 00:05:30,529 The IQ modulator, which is in every other source in the market today, 52 00:05:30,629 --> 00:05:34,509 is prone to a variety of different errors, including LO feed-through and images, 53 00:05:34,949 --> 00:05:36,949 impacting your ability to make a good measurement. 54 00:05:37,689 --> 00:05:40,529 Today we have an MXG with one channel that we'll be demonstrating, 55 00:05:40,709 --> 00:05:43,470 but you can have these with up to four channels in a single chassis, 56 00:05:43,709 --> 00:05:46,029 making it very useful for a wide variety of different measurements, 57 00:05:46,329 --> 00:05:49,089 for things like testing spatially multiplexed MIMO receivers 58 00:05:49,089 --> 00:05:54,230 or diversity receivers, 5G conformance testing where you need a really high-powered blocking signal 59 00:05:54,230 --> 00:05:58,089 in the presence of a very low-level wanted signal, or for even testing beamforming 60 00:05:58,709 --> 00:06:00,930 where you have phased array chipsets that you might want to test. 61 00:06:01,689 --> 00:06:06,550 The modulation bandwidth of the MXG is up to 960 megahertz on every channel, making it useful for testing power amplifiers in single-carrier or multi-carrier configurations, making it useful for testing power amplifiers in single-carrier or multi-carrier configurations, 62 00:06:08,550 --> 00:06:11,000 thank you, Randy, for that great demonstration.