RF Test Equipment
| Series | Frequency Range |
Instantaneous Bandwidth |
Real Time Signal Processing |
Alias Free Sample Rate |
ADC | Spurious-Free Dynamic Range |
Inputs | Memory | Signal Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZT8440 | DC to 1GHz | 100 Hz to 156.25 MHz | FPGA-based digital down conversion (DDC) with fractional resampling | 100 S/s to 400 MS/s | Dual 400 MS/s 14 bit | >80 dBc | RF or Dual I/Q | 512 MB (up to 128 MiSamples of complex I/Q data pairs) |
+10 dBm max |
The ZT8440 series marks the expansion of ZTEC Instruments' product selection into the Radio Frequency (RF) test equipment market with their first RF product, the ZT8441 RF/IF Digitizer, available in PXI, PCI, VXI and LXI.
The ZT8441 RF/IF Digitizer comes standard with a full featured, on-instrument spectrum analyzer, and is poised to supply the rapidly growing RF market with a world-class testing solution at a competitive price. The ZT8441 is equipped with future-proof technical specifications including:
- Real-time Quadrature Digital Down Converter (DDC) with fractional resampling and decimation
- Vector signal analysis capability of an ultra wide, 156.25MHz instantaneous bandwidth
- Extremely low noise floor and a high dynamic range
- Fast switching and all-digital frequency hopping
- Real-time highly flexible FPGA processing
The ZT8441 leverages ZTEC Instruments' value-add to modular instruments by providing an intuitive GUI, ZSignal™. ZSignal™ provides advanced integration and support with a simple and familiar interface to ease the transition from a bench-top spectrum analyzer to its modular instrument counterpart. ZSignal™ was built in accordance with award-winning ZScope® and ZWave® platforms to minimize the time needed to integrate the instrument into both new and legacy software.
The ZT8441 provides a true modular architecture for synthetic instrumentation because it is designed to be interoperable with 3rd party RF modules such as an RF down converter. In addition, the RF/IF digitizer offers bus master control of those RF instruments for speed and deterministic operations.
"ZTEC Instruments is committed to providing our customers with a distinctly lower-cost solution with superior bandwidth, sample rate, dynamic range, and integrated DDC," President Chris Ziomek states. "As we exemplify with our latest product release, the ZT8441, ZTEC will continue to develop products that drive efficiency, set industry standards, and that our customers can rely on. We are extremely pleased with our expansion into the RF Test Equipment market with our future-proof specifications, our more advanced integration and support, true modular architecture for synthetic instrumentation, and our competitive pricing structure."
