Agilent (Hewlett-Packard) 8133A High Speed Pulse Generator

The Agilent 8133A 3 GHz Pulse Generator provides pulses with programmable period from 333 ps to 30 ns, full 3 GHz pulse capability on all channels. The pulse width can be programmed too, along with a delay or the interchannel delay. At these frequency ranges the transition time performance becomes critical; less than 100 ps is specified, less than 60 ps is typical, so excellent signal integrity is assured. A typical jitter of 1 ps creates precise and accurate timing conditions.

Option 002 allows 32 bit, digital pattern generation in NRZ and RZ (50%duty cycle) mode. Pulse/data channel 2 can also be programmed to provide a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) of data, a PRBS of 2 23-1 , which conforms to CCITT 0.151.PRBS generation capability finds a particular application,in allowing the instrument to be used as a data source for eye diagram measurements.