TSP #253 - Keysight 256GS/s, 80GHz Bandwidth M8199B 2-Channel AWG Overview, Teardown & Experiments

In this episode Shahriar takes a look at another world's first instrument: Keysight M8199B 256 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator. With over 80GHz of analog bandwidth, this high performance ARB is intended for design development at 160GBaud and above:

https://www.keysight.com/zz/en/product/M8199B/m8199b-256-gsa-s-arbitrary-waveform-generator.html

This video is organized as follows:

00:00 - Introductions 00:54 - ARB comparison, performance metrics, key parameters 03:59 - DAC design, chip layout, system level considerations, overall instrument architecture 14:42 - M8199B interfaces, detailed teardown, sub-block overview, output module analysis 30:14 - Demonstration setup, M8199B, DCA-X, 120GHz remote sampling use-case 33:29 - Software interfaces, I/Q tools, signal generation & calibration 36:29 - DCA-X eye-diagram captures, 64GBaud to 200GBaud, NRZ, PAM4, PAM8 44:09 - Keysight captured eye diagram & ultimate system performance 45:50 - Concluding remarks

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