Company Announcement - Keysight Technologies, today announced it has developed a highly dense, 64 synchronous multichannel data acquisition system. The system is composed of eight M9703A AXIe high-speed digitizers in a 14-slot chassis and was developed for an enterprise leader in satellite telecommunication systems, where its main requirement was multichannel synchronization and FPGA programming capability.

Keysight modular solutions, based on AXIe products, are extremely compact. This allows reduction of size while increasing the number of acquisition channels. With an innovative design, the system has eight digitizers within one chassis. The synchronization is realized through its unique AXIe local bus backplane. Up to 13 modules could be installed in the chassis for a total of 104 channels.

“The key element of this system is the AXIe multi-channel multi-boards synchronization capability, which make possible a high-speed, multi-channel data acquisition with customized, real-time signal processing and unique phase coherency,” said Pierre-François Maistre, Keysight R&D project manager. “We already have validated this 64-channel data acquisition system according to our customer’s requirements and we are now looking at potentially enlarging it up to 104 channels.”

The 64-channel system is composed of:

• Eight M9703A AXIe 8-channel, 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver able to capture signals from DC up to 2 GHz at 1.6 GS/s
• One U5340A FPGA Development Kit for high-speed digitizers

• One M9514A AXIe 14-Slot Chassis that provides 13 instrument modules slots plus an AXIe system slot

• One M9521A AXIe System Module that provides the required system communication and synchronization functions including trigger bus and clock routing and management

About AXIe

AXIe is a standard based on AdvancedTCA with extensions for instrumentation and test. The mission of the AXIe Consortium is to provide an open standard that creates a robust ecosystem of components, products and systems for general-purpose instrumentation and semiconductor test. AXIe leverages existing standards from PXI, LXI and IVI. AXIe promises high scalability and performance that will address a range of platforms, including benchtop measurements, rack-and-stack modular, and ATE systems. Additional details are available at www.axiestandard.org

About Keysight High-Speed Digitizers

Keysight high-speed digitizers are the result of more than 300 years of cumulative research and development experience in analog-to-digital conversion technology. This deep understanding allows Keysight to achieve the most effective and reliable analog-to-digital conversion with the highest resolution and fastest sampling rates. Information about the technology and its applications is available at www.keysight.com/find/high‑speed‑digitizers.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies is a global electronic measurement technology and market leader helping to transform its customers’ measurement experience through innovations in wireless, modular, and software solutions. Keysight’s electronic measurement instruments, systems, software and services are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronic equipment. The business had revenues of $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2014.