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The 33500B Series waveform generators offer the common signals
and features you expect, such as modulation, sweep, and burst.
But the 33500B Series offers many more features that give you the
capabilities and flexibility you need to get your job done. Like an
intuitive front-panel user interface that makes it easy to quickly relearn
it when you’ve been focused elsewhere. Like built-in LAN, USB
and GPIB interfaces that make it easy to control your instruments or
transfer your waveforms to your instrument.
But the 33500B Series doesn’t stop there. It offers a variety of
capabilities you won’t find elsewhere—capabilities that help you
accelerate your testing and get your project wrapped up faster:
Waveform summing and combining
capability
Easily add noise to your signal for margin and distortion testing
using only a single channel. You can create dual-tone
multifrequency signals without a dual-channel generator,
which means you can preserve your budget for other test
needs. On a two-channel model, you can sum and combine
up to four signals.
Variable-bandwidth noise
You can adjust the bandwidth of the built-in noise generator to
control the frequency content of your signal. Apply just the frequency
stimulus you need so you concentrate the energy of your waveform
in frequency bands of interest.
Trueform Technology
Unmatched capabilities for generating a full range of signals for the most
demanding requirements
The images at right show
approximately 10 dB increase
in amplitude at 50 kHz when
the bandwidth is reduced 10x.
You can see how the signal
energy is increased in the
frequencies of interest when
the bandwidth is reduced,
instead of being spread over
a very wide bandwidth
with lower amplitude at all
frequencies.
Dual-tone signal created
by summing waveforms
using the modulation
type, “Sum.”