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INSTRUMENTATION
RIGOL
Technologies'
DSG800A
Series signal
generator.
SPECIAL REPORT
GENERATING VALUE
New technology demands, multifunctionality make
signal generators more integral to testing than ever
By EE Staff
Signal generators are a crucial element in many areas of product design, development, production, and field
testing. While their longstanding applications include base stations, radar, and
EMC, new-age demands like 5G and the
Internet of Things continue to make modern signal generators highly valuable
pieces of test equipment.
To take a deep dive into this test-instrumentation topic, EE gathered commentary from various makers of signal
generators to get their thoughts on technology trends and challenges, customer
demands, and what newer solutions are
on the market. Read on to see what they
told us.
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What's trending?
What technology or market trends are
vendors seeing in the area of signal
generators?
Brandon Malatest, founder and CEO of
Per Vices Corp.: "There has been a significant shift in the flexibility and performance demanded by customers in the RF/
microwave signal-generator market. The
industry now requires signal generators
that can operate over very wide frequencies, support very high bandwidths, and
have the flexibility that was traditionally
only available through multiple pieces
of equipment-each serving a different
need. This has led to an increase in the
need for software defined radios (SDR)
to be used in replacement of legacy RF/
microwave signal generators."
Steve Sandler, founder and CEO of
Picotest: "More features and lower prices. Companies like ours are introducing
very small, high-speed edge generators for
scope-based time-domain reflectometry
(TDR) and scope-based vector-networkanalyzer (VNA) applications, which have
been seeing increased domain."
Oliver Rovini, technical director of
Spectrum Instrumentation GmbH: "We
see a trend towards more simultaneous
output channels in a single device. While
classic signal generators have one or two
outputs in a single bench-top device, there
are now more and more signal generators
and arbitrary waveform generators (AWG)
coming to market that have four or even
eight channels. Modular concepts like
those offered by Spectrum even allow 16
or more AWG channels in a single device.
Even benchtop devices nowadays come
without any manual operating interface
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Editorial: Three-way race to the future
By the Numbers
Industry Report
Signal Generators: New technology demands make signal generators more integral to testing
Burn-In and Test: The importance of burn-in and test extends from semiconductors to military equipment
Automotive Test: Automation boosts analog and digital test of automotive ICs
Sensor-Based Test: The 3R's of analog position sensor-based mechanical measurements
Power Test: Recommendation of voltage line disturbance test
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