WG Xpress

Verify and characterise ASIC, FPGA, DAC and Digital Boards.

Wave Generator Xpress 는 high speed USB 2.0 PC 기반 디지탈 패턴 발생기 혹은 임의의 디지탈 파형 발생기 입니다. 16 bits 이상의 임의의 디지탈 자극을 발생, 50 MSample/s 이상에서 100 MByte depth 로 동작.

6 digital control lines can be used to handle output / input clock signals and generate repetitive sequences. It is typically used to send arbitrary stimuli to your board or chip prototype, exercise custom digital interfaces and produce arbitrary digital sample streams to your system under test. Wave Generator Xpress is a convenient, robust and compact personal tool for a wide variety of test and debug tasks on electronic systems.

Wave Generator Xpress is controlled with the 8PI Control Panel Software, freely licensed with the ADWG (Arbitrary Digital Waveform Generator) mode of operation. With its multiple graphical and programming (TCL/tk and C/C++) interfaces, you have many flexible options to generate stimuli, from binary or text file to whole algorithms programmed in Tcl/tk, C/C++, Visual Basic and many others.

Main features
  • USB 2.0 high speed device 
  • 50 MHz maximum frequency on all signals
  • 16 kByte embedded memory
  • 16 data lines for data streaming from the PC
  • 6 control lines for clocking (in/out), triggering and repetitive sequence generation
  • Maximum sustained throughput on USB: 11 MByte/s
  • Limited to 100 MByte and 100 MSample data depth per run
  • I/O voltage from 1.2V to 3.3V
  • Automatic streaming from the PC when data depth exceeds embedded memory (16 kByte)
  • ADWG (pattern generator) mode of operation license for 8PI Control Panel included
Applications
  1. Post-manufacturing ASIC / SoC manual bench functional testing
  2. FPGA, digital board and DAC input stimulus generation for functional testing and debugging
  3. IP validation on prototyping board
  4. Custom digital interface access
  5. VHDL / Verilog design environment -to-board prototype digital stimuli generation
제품 구성품
    1. Wave Generator Xpress device
    2. USB cable mini-B to USB type A (2 meters long)
    3. Set of colored flying lead wires
    4. License for ADWG mode of operation in 8PI Coontrol Panel software
      Win32 GUI
      TCL/tk scripting interface
      C/C++ API
      Unlimited upgrades - free unlimited software download

Wave Gen Xpress – Digital Pattern Generator

  • 100 MHz operation
  • Up to 32 MB memory buffer
  • 16 bit digital pattern
  • Optional external clocking
  • Output voltage 1.25V to 3.3V
  • USB-powered
  • Win32/64 GUI
  • C/C++ API included for free

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Wave Gen Xpress digital pattern generator

What is a digital pattern generator?

A digital pattern generator is an essential stimulus source for almost every type of digital device: digital and mixed-signal ASIC, FPGA, microprocessors and microcontrollers. The digital pattern generator can be used early in the design cycle to substitute for system components that are not yet available.

Because nowadays circuits use digital interfaces that may run at more than a few 10th of megahertz, the old way to do it with microcontrollers coupled with a GPIO is not practicable any more. By substituting for missing pieces and offering maximal flexibility when generating digital logic signals, digital pattern generators speed up new product’s time-to-market.

The digital pattern generator is an effective solution just about anywhere that complex digital bit streams are needed to stimulate a device under test (DUT).

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How does it work?

How does a DPG work?

Technical resources


8PI Control Panel