Overview

Traditional waveform generators only provide simple, periodic waveforms. The circuits of today, however, require more complex and customized analog and digital stimulus signals. The CompuGen 8150 and CompuGen 8152 enable the user to generate a limitless number of analog and digital signals. The CompuGen 8150 and CompuGen 8152 generate analog output signals at a maximum D/A conversion rate of 150 million samples per second (MS/s) with 12-bit vertical resolution (4096 levels). Arbitrary waveforms are generated by creating a digital representation of the waveform in the memory on-board the CompuGen 8150 or CompuGen 8152. This digital pattern is then converted into an analog signal using a high speed Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC).