Our August 2023 rotating exhibit is comprised of newer instruments consisting of a AWG4162 Arbitrary Waveform Generator and a MSO5204B Mixed Signal Oscilloscope. Here it is generating a sin(x)/X waveform that is displayed on the MSO5204B.

The signal source instruments were primarily designed at Sony/Tek, and later Tek Japan. These were typically built on Tektronix instrument platforms designed in Beaverton. Later, the engineering team in Beaverton took responsibility for the high end AWGs while Tektronix China took responsibility for the lower cost AFG3000 products. Tektronix China, looking to grow product offerings, took responsibility to design the high end AWG4000 family which leveraged the MSO5000 platform. The MSO5000 platform leveraged the MSO4000 platform adding Windows.

The AWG4162 was introduced on September 25, 2017, making this exhibit one of our newer instruments. The AWG4162  consists of two channels with a 2.5 GHz sampling rate. It can generate sine waves from 1 µHz to 600 MHz, square waves from 1 µHz to 330 MHz, and pulse waves from 1 µHz to 330 MHz. It also is capable of generating Ramp, Sin(x)/X (shown above), Gaussian, Lorentz, Haversine, Arbitrary, and Noise.

The MSO5204B was introduced in 2014. It consists of four analog channels with 2 GHz bandwidth and 10 GS/s sample rate and 16 digital channels. It is shown here with the optional snap on accessory holder on top.