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In this episode Shahriar takes a look at another world's first instrument: Keysight M8199B 256 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator. With over 80GHz of analog bandwidth, this high performance ARB is intended for design development at 160GBaud and above:

https://www.keysight.com/zz/en/produc...

This video is organized as follows:

00:00 - Introductions
00:54 - ARB comparison, performance metrics, key parameters
03:59 - DAC design, chip layout, system level considerations, overall instrument architecture
14:42 - M8199B interfaces, detailed teardown, sub-block overview, output module analysis
30:14 - Demonstration setup, M8199B, DCA-X, 120GHz remote sampling use-case
33:29 - Software interfaces, I/Q tools, signal generation & calibration
36:29 - DCA-X eye-diagram captures, 64GBaud to 200GBaud, NRZ, PAM4, PAM8
44:09 - Keysight captured eye diagram & ultimate system performance
45:50 - Concluding remarks

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