National Instruments NI PXI-5621 manual

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    © 2002 National Instruments Corp. All rights reserved. National Instruments™, NI™, and ni.com ™ are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. Product and company names mentioned herein are tradem arks or trade names of their respectiv e companies. For patents covering National Instruments products, refer to the appropriate location: He[...]

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    NI PXI-5621 Specifications 2 ni.com DC offset .............. ............... ........... .........±1 mV (calibrated) Analog bandwidth ( – 3 dB range) .. .........0 Hz to 36 MHz Amplitude accuracy ................................±0.5 dB VSWR 0 – 25 MHz .............. ........... .............. .<1.5:1 25 – 32 MHz .................... ....[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 3 NI PXI-5621 Specifications Amplitude Figure 1. Noise Density (Dither Disabled, Input T erminated) A verage noise density (dither off) .................... ........... .............. . < – 129 dBm /Hz Signal-to-noise r atio 9 dBm signal, full bandwidth .......... >62 dB Harmonic distortion (single tone, [...]

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    NI PXI-5621 Specifications 4 ni.com Figure 2. Intermodulation Distortion Intermodulation di stortion (2-tone, 0 dB m signals, 200 kHz sep aration) 4 – 15 MHz, dither enabled ......... ......< – 86 dBm 0 – 32 MHz, dither disabled ..............< – 78 dBm Residual responses (input term inated) ....< – 75 dBm 0.00 – 10.00 – 20.0[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 5 NI PXI-5621 Specifications Figure 3. Frequency Response (0.1 – 32 MHz) Frequency response (4 – 25 MHz) Relative (to response at 15 MHz) ... < ±0.25 dB Absolute .... ............... .............. ......... < ±0.6 dB Absolute (using calibration table) ... < ±0.5 dB 0.20 0.10 0.00 – 0.10 – 0.2[...]

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    NI PXI-5621 Specifications 6 ni.com Phase Figure 4. Group Delay versus Frequency Group delay variation (5 – 25 MHz) . .............. .............. ........... ....9 ns pk – pk Group delay variation (0.5 – 30 MHz) ...... ............... ........... .........26 ns pk – pk DDC Decimation rate........................ .............. .32 – 4,0[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 7 NI PXI-5621 Specifications T riggering Modes ....... ........... .............. .............. ....... Immediate, software, digital Sources ................... .............. ........... ....... PFI 1, PXI<0..7>, PXI STAR Export ....... .............. .............. ........... ....... PFI 1, PXI<0..7&[...]

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    NI PXI-5621 Specifications 8 ni.com Environmental Specifications Warm-up time ............... ........... .............. .10 minutes Operating environment Ambient temperature ................... ....0 – 50 ° C Humidity .. .............. .............. ........... .10 – 90%, nonco ndensing Storage environment Storage temperature ..... .........[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporation 9 NI PXI-5621 Specifications Electromagnetic Compatibility CE, C-Tick, and FCC Part 15 (Class A) compliant Electrical emissions....................... ......... EN 55011 Class A at 10 m FCC Part 15A above 1 GHz Electrical immunity ......... .............. ......... Evaluated to EN 61326:1997/A1:19 98, Table 1 Not[...]