06 | Keysight | M9703B AXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver - Data Sheet

Software Platform

I/O Libraries

Keysight IO Libraries Suite offers fast and easy access to the

M9703B digitizer using a standardized interface and ensuring

compatibility and upgradability of the software applications.

The Keysight IO Libraries Suite helps you by displaying ALL of the

modules in your system. From here you can view information about

the installed software or launch the modules’ soft front panel

directly from Keysight Connection Expert (KCE).

In addition, KCE offers an easy way to find the correct driver for

your instrument.

Drivers

The module comes with the IviDigitizer class compliant Keysight

MD2 IVI-COM and IVI-C drivers that work in the most popular

development environments including Visual C/C++, C#, VB.NET,

MATLAB, and LabVIEW. Linux is also supported using the IVI-C

driver.

Easy software integration

To help you get started and complete complex tasks quickly, the

M9703B digitizer is supplied with a comprehensive portfolio of

module drivers, documentation, examples, and software tools

to help you quickly develop test systems with your software

platform of choice.

Compliance

formats. Designed to benefit from fast data interfaces, the

product can be integrated into AXIe or ATCA chassis slots.

Based on ATCA, the AXIe standard implements extensions for

instrumentation and test, and uses clever techniques to add

powerful timing features.

Software applications

In addition, the M9703B includes the Keysight MD2 soft front

panel (SFP) graphical interface. This software application can

be used to control, verify the functionality and explore the

capabilities of the Keysight modular high-speed digitizers. We

highly recommend to use the new MD2 driver but it is possible to

order the M9703A with the MD1 driver for backward compatibility

in an existing system. Alternatively, the existing system can be

upgraded.

The M9703B is compatible with AcqirisMAQS software,

which provides easy control and monitoring of advanced data

acquisition systems with many channels, and is ideal for single-

shot/event applications.

For advanced measurement analysis, the M9703B AXIe wideband

digital receiver/digitizer can be combined with Keysight’s 89600

Vector Signal Analysis software, the industry’s standard for signal

analysis and demodulation. Thanks to the high data throughput

(1.4 GB/s) of its PCIe backplane bus, the M9703B allows a much

faster connection to the 89600 VSA software, compared to

traditional instruments.

The M9703B digitizer is also supported by Keysight SystemVue

electronic design automation (EDA) environment software. The

SystemVue EDA software includes rich processing libraries,

enabling system architects and algorithm developers in wireless

and aerospace/defense communications to innovate. When

coupling the M9703B wideband digital receiver with SystemVue

W1462BP FPGA Architect, designers have at their disposal an

open FPGA development environment for custom on-board

processing. This solution allows a complete, integrated design-

to-test flow, dramatically cutting design to prototyping time and

verification effort.

The M9703B digitizer is also supported by Keysight U5340A

FPGA Development Kit. The FPGA Development Kit is a complete

environment for the design, verification and implementation

of real-time, user-defined signal-processing algorithms. This

software bundle is intended to eliminate all prerequisite design

tool flow configuration, effectively reducing up-front investment

and minimizing risks.

The FPGA Development Kit combines capabilities to:

– Achieve multi GS/s real-time processing on a full digitizer

framework by leveraging the full density and speed of the

FPGA.

– Shorten your time-to-market with turn-key, easy-to-use

development flow and debug.

Figure 3. MD2 software front panel (SFP) interface.