Synthesizer covers 700 to 8000 MHz

Mar 12, 2008 2:12 PM

Hittite Microwave Corporation has announced a new synthesized signal generator for use in research and development laboratories and automated test and measurement environments. The HMC-T2000 is compact and lightweight delivering up to +20 dBm (+17 dBm leveled) of CW output power with better than -40 dBc of harmonic rejection at 1 GHz and spurious products better than -42 dBc down across the entire frequency range. Phase noise is -83 dBc/Hz at 100-kHz offset from 4 GHz with insignificant deviation over the temperature range 0 to +35 °C.

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The broad frequency range of this signal generator — 700 to 8000 MHz — covers all major communication bands with a resolution of 1 MHz and a fast switching speed of less than 200 microseconds in 100-MHz steps.

This signal generator also provides a USB interface and control software ensuring ease of integration in multiple test environments. An installation disk that accompanies each unit includes all the drivers required to remotely control the device as well as a user-friendly, lab-windows-based GUI interface that is compatible with Windows XP operating systems. User control is facilitated via pulldown menus that enable programming of single or swept modes in frequency and/or power. Integration of multiple units within a production test environment is easy, affordable and repeatable due to the incorporation of integer mode architecture in the HMC-T2000 and its ability to maintain phase coherence between frequency steps.

The price of the HMC-T2000 synthesized signal generator is $3998.