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Take Your Devices to the Limit
Pure and precise MXG
On the path to better performance,
the pure and precise MXG X-Series
signal generators are fine-tuned
to be your “golden transmitter” in
R&D. Whether you’re pushing for a
linear RF chain or an optimized link
budget, the analog and vector MXG
models deliver the performance and
capabilities you need: phase noise,
ACPR, channel coding, and more.
Use the MXG to test radar receiver
sensitivity, characterize ADC or
mixer SNR, or find receiver out-of-
band rejection capability. You’ll get
excellent results with industry-leading
phase noise of –146 dBm at 1 GHz
and spurious performance of -96 dBc
at 1 GHz. You can also drive power
amplifiers and characterize nonlinear
behavior with industry-leading output
power of +27 dB and ACPR of –73
dBc (W-CDMA test mode 1, 64
DPCH).
With EVM up to 0.4 percent (802.11ac
and LTE) and factory-equalized 160
MHz RF bandwidth with flatness
of less than ± 0.2 dB, the MXG
enables testing and characterization
of multicarrier power amplifiers or
wideband receivers and components,
such as those used in 802.11ac
WLAN designs.
Industry-leading
phase noise
The MXG implements a new
triple-loop phased-lock loop
(PLL) design and “frequency
plan” that results in substan-
tial phase noise improvements
close to the carrier and at
wide offsets. The frequency
plan addresses several key
attributes: the choice of oscil-
lator and reference frequen-
cies in the synthesizer and the
associated frequency conver-
sion (mixers and multipliers)
and filtering.
The triple-loop approach
allows optimized frequency
spacing that ensures effective
filtering of nonlinear artifacts
such as images by pushing
them outside the bandwidth
of the synthesizer circuits. In
the MXG, the plan arranges
the frequency references and
conversions such that the larg-
est nonlinearities are far from
the desired frequencies and
modest filtering can heavily
attenuate the remaining spuri-
ous signals.
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