Tektronix, Inc. Pulse Generator 284

The 284 is a used Pulse Generator from Tektronix. A pulse generator is a piece of electronic test equipment that engineers use to generate rectangular pulses. An electromagnetic pulse generator is best for digital, not analog, circuits. Engineers can inject pulses into a piece of equipment under test as a stimulus as they test the device, using pulses to confirm the equipment’s proper operation.

Additional Features:

• 70 ps risetime pulse, 200 mV, 50 kHz repetition rate, 1 μs pulse duration (5% duty cycle)
• Sine wave, 1 GHz or 100 MHz, 100 mV
• Square wave, 10 MHz, 1 MHz or 100 kHz, 10 mV, 100 mV, or 1 V

The Tektronix 284 is a used Pulse Generator that offers all of the signals required to check the rise time, vertical deflection factor, and horizontal sweep rates of sampling oscilloscopes. The 284 generates a 1 GHz sinewave using a 2N3478 RF NPN transistor-based oscillator.

The 284 is a 16 MHz, 4CH, Arbitrary Waveform from Fluke. An arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) is a type of electronic test equipment people use to generate repetitive or single-shot electrical waveforms. Single-shot waveforms require a triggering source, either internal or external, while repetitive waveforms do not. Inject the signal the waveform generator creates into a device for analysis during testing, finding problems with the device, or confirming proper operation.

Features:

• 16 MHz function generator
• 10 MHz pulse generator
• 40 MS/s max. sampling speed
• Pulse train pattern generator
• Arbitrary waveforms of up to 65 k points
• Powerful modulation capabilities
• Built-in trigger generators
• Waveform Manager Plus for Windows® software
• Tone switching
• Multiple standard waveforms recalled from internal memory
• RS-232 and GPIB interfaces

The Fluke 284 is a highly sophisticated 12-bit arbitrary waveform generator capable of recreating virtually any waveform. True variable clock architecture is used with clock speeds between 0.1 Hz and 40 MHz. This avoids the clock jitter associated with DDS arbitrary generators and permits waveform linking, looping and sequencing.

This architecture avoids the clock jitter associated with DDS arbitrary generators and permits waveform linking, looping and sequencing. Waveforms may be defined with up to 4096 vertical points and from 4 K to 64 K points. Arbitrary waveforms may be replayed at a specified waveform frequency, period or sample clock rate.

Function generator
Each channel can operate as a full DDS function generator. High quality sine, cosine, haversine, havercosine and square waves are available between 1 mHz and 16 MHz. Triangle, ramp and sine(x)/x waveforms are available from 0.1 mHz up to 500 kHz.

Pulse generator
Each channel can generate not just pulses, but also complex pulse trains. A pattern of up to 10 pulses can be quickly defined, with each pulse having its own amplitude, width and delay.
The whole pulse train pattern can then be replayed at a user defined repetition rate. Where variable rise time pulses are required, the full arbitrary function can be used.

The Fluke 284 combines multiple waveform generator functions in one instrument. Its extensive signal simulation capabilities include arbitrary waveforms, function generator, pulse/pulse train generator, sweep generator, trigger generator, tone generator, and amplitude modulation source.