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Easily Create Custom Waveform
Plug-Ins With Waveform Creator
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Application Note
Enable higher productivity through a simple, open and expandable
waveform creation environment. Create and deploy complex waveforms
or develop emerging communications standards based waveforms.
Introduction
The Keysight Technologies, Inc. M9099 Waveform Creator
application software provides a simple, open and expandable
waveform creation environment for use with Keysight's M9381A
PXIe Vector Signal Generator and SystemVue system level design
software. Designing devices for higher data rates and wider
bandwidths requires more complex signals to verify how the
device would perform in its real environment. Using Waveform
Creator, individual waveform segments can be created using
available waveform plug-ins or user created plug-ins. This
application note describes how to create user plug-ins which
can be fully integrated with Waveform Creator to deploy signal
generation capabilities that meet your requirements.
The Keysight Waveform Creator provides a framework for creating
custom baseband and modulated RF waveforms and enables
the custom waveforms to be used in R&D, design validation and
manufacturing test. This paper describes how waveform segments
can created, dragged and modified with user-definable parameters
and then downloaded into the M9381A PXIe VSG or outputted as
an unencrypted data file.
Key issues faced in complex signal generation
Test engineers face the challenge of creating complex custom signals needed
to test many of today's RF systems and emerging communications standards.
Typically, assembly of such waveforms requires multiple tools and different
waveform formats to be aggregated. This leaves the user with the time
consuming task of modifying waveform timing alignment, resampling to different
carrier frequencies and sample rates, as well as performing waveform validation.
This application note demonstrates how to use Waveform Creator, a simple, yet
powerful tool to address these challenges. Waveform Creator provides: