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Keysight M9203A
PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/
Wideband Digital Receiver
2 channels, 12-bit, up to 3.2 GS/s,
DC to 2 GHz bandwidth
Data Sheet

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Overview
Introduction
The Keysight M9203A is a very fast and low noise PXIe High-
Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver featuring wide analog
bandwidth, making it ideal for wireless, radar and satellite commu-
nication applications or any application requiring wideband signal
capture, and at the same time very high dynamic range. Thanks
to its PCI Express® backplane connection, the M9203A supports
continuous data streaming to disk.
Product description
The M9203A is a dual-slot 3U PXIe 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer/
Wideband Digital Receiver running at 3.2 GS/s, with up to 2 GHz
instantaneous analog bandwidth and providing a large 4 GB DDR3
acquisition memory. The M9203A features a large Xilinx Virtex-6
FPGA that can implement different functionalities depending on
which rmware option you choose.
The M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver
can also be combined with the Keysight 89600 VSA software for
advanced dual-channel signal analysis.
For information on other rmware options please contact Keysight
Technologies: digitizers@keysight.com
Example applications
– Wireless communication (5G, LTE)
– Emerging communication standards (e.g. DOCSIS 3.1)
– Radar and wideband signal capture
– Radar and satellite communication applications
– Semiconductor automated test
Product features
– 1 channel with 12-bit resolution up to 3.2 GS/s sampling rate
with interleaving enabled
– 2 channels up to 1.6 GS/s simultaneous sampling rate
– DC up to 2 GHz bandwidth
– 50 Ω input impedance, DC coupled
– Selectable 1 V or 2 V full scale range (FSR)
– ±200 fs channel-to-channel skew stability
– 15 ps RMS trigger time interpolator (TTI) precision
– Up to 4 GB DDR3 on-board memory
– Enhanced real-time processing using Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA
– Support for loading custom real-time processing
– High data throughput PCIe® Gen2 (x8) backplane
– Real-time digital down-conversion (-DDC) with adjustable
center frequency and analysis bandwidth
– Real-time digitizer raw data streaming and recording bundle
– Real-time digital down-conversion with I/Q data streaming
(-CB0) and recording bundle (-CB2)
Uncompromising values
– Fast PXIe 12-bit wideband digitizer with on-board real-time
processing
– Capture wide bandwidth signals
– High dynamic range acquisition for better measurement
delity
– Accurate long term measurement
– Capable of switching between multiple rmware programs
– Self-trigger mode for unequaled synchronous noise reduction
– Open FPGA for custom process
– Reduced test time by tuning and zooming on signals (-DDC)
– Up to 1 GHz baseband streaming and recording (-CB0)
– Dual channel phase coherent streaming and recording with up
to 320 MHz alias protected IBW (-CB2)

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Hardware platform
Product overview
The M9203A is PXI Express compliant. Designed to benet
from fast data interfaces, the product can be integrated in
PXIe and PXI Hybrid chassis slots. The PXI format offers high
performance in a small, rugged package. It is an ideal deploy-
ment platform for many automated measurements systems.
ADC
ADC
DDR3 SDRAM
memory
QDR2 SRAM
memory
DDR3 SDRAM
memory
PCIe BUS
Trigger
FPGA
DC
Front-end
DC
Front-end
TimeBase
PCIe
switch
Control
IN 1
IN 2
REF IN
CLK IN
TRG IN
TRG OUT
I/O
DPU
Custom
real-time
processing
ADC
ADC
ADC
ADC
Figure 1. Simplied block diagram of the M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver.
Block diagram
On-board real-time processing
At the heart of the M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband
Digital Receiver is a data processing unit (DPU) based on the
powerful Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. This DPU is responsible for
controlling the module functionality, data ow and real-time
signal processing. This powerful feature allows data reduction
and storage to be carried out at the digitizer level, minimizing
transfer volumes and speeding-up analysis.

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Software Platform
Keysight Software Suite
Keysight IO Libraries Suite offers fast and easy connection to
instruments and the newest version extends that capability to
include modular instruments.
Drivers
The module comes with the IviDigitizer class compliant Keysight
MD2 IVI-COM and IVI-C drivers that work in the most popular
development environments including Visual C/C++, C#, VB.NET,
MATLAB, and LabVIEW. Linux is also supported using the IVI-C
driver.
Easy software integration
To help you get started and complete complex tasks quickly, the
M9203A PXIe Wideband Digitizer is supplied with a comprehen-
sive portfolio of module drivers, documentation, examples, and
software tools to help you quickly develop test systems with your
software platform of choice.
Compliance
The M9203A is PXI Express compliant. Designed to benet from
fast data interfaces, the product can be integrated in PXIe and
PXI Hybrid chassis slots.
Figure 3. M9203A front panel
with analog inputs and multiple
I/O signals.
Software applications
In addition, the M9203A includes the Keysight MD2 soft front
panel (SFP) graphical interface. This software application can be
used to explore the capabilities of the Keysight modular high-
speed digitizers.
For advanced measurement analysis, the M9203A PXIe High-
Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver can be combined with
Keysight’s 89600 Vector Signal Analysis software, the industry’s
standard for signal analysis and demodulation. The M9203A
allows fast connection to the 89600 VSA software through its
high data throughput PCIe backplane, compared to traditional
instruments.
Figure 2. MD2 software front panel (SFP) interface.
Figure 4. M9203A PXIe 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver
offers a small size for easy integration within a PXIe chassis.
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Firmware Options
The M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital
Receiver provides several rmware options:
– DGT: Digitizer rmware
– INT: Interleaved channel sampling functionality
– FDK1: Custom rmware capablility
– TSR2: Triggered simultaneous acquisition and readout
– DDC: Wideband real-time digital down-conversion
Easy rmware switch
A simple call to the conguration function will enable to switch to
the required option.
DGT digitizer rmware
The digitizer rmware:
– Allows standard data acquisition, including: digitizer
initialization, setting of the acquisition and clocking modes,
management of channel triggering for best synchronization,
storing data in the internal memory and/or transferring them
through the backplane bus.
– Implements multi-record acquisition functionality.
– Supports xed internal clocking frequency with internal or
external reference, and variable frequency external clock.
– Offers programmable binary decimation to lower the sample
rate by a factor of 2n where n is dened in the range 1 to 10
for single record.
e.g. you can select from 1.6 GS/s down to 1.5625 MS/s.
– Trigger time interpolator (TTI): high precision integrated time
to digital converter can be used to increase time measure-
ment accuracy.
INT interleaved channel sampling functionality
This interleave option allows two channels to be combined and to
reach 3.2 GS/s in one channel acquisition mode.
FDK custom rmware capability
This option enables loading4 custom rmware created with the
U5340A FPGA development kit5.
1. A calibration digitizer function is available with each rmware.
2. Only available with DGT option.
3. Please contact Keysight to nd out the repetition rate that can be
achieved in your application.
4. On the Virtex-6 LX195T DPU FPGA.
5. There are 11 W maximum power dedicated to FPGA processing, the
custom rmware design must t within this power provision.
The triggered simultaneous acquisition and readout architecture
allows to continuously acquire new records while reading previ-
ous ones.
TSR solution is dedicated to applications requiring no trigger loss,
achieving longer recording time when compares with standard
digitizer (-DGT).
TSR option main features:
– High trigger rate with guaranteed no lost trigger for specic
conguration3.
– Easy to use solution, implementing an optimal and
automated control of memory addressing.
– Selecting larger memory size option allows longer record
size and provides larger buffer for data transfer to host PC,
especially useful for applications with non-periodic trigger or
very high trigger rate during a limited period.
DDC real-time digital down-conversion
The real-time digital down-conversion option (-DDC), in addition
to the basic digitizer functionality, implements a real-time digital
decimation and ltering on the digitized data, allowing the user
to tune and zoom on the signals of interest. This exclusive IP
algorithm provides very powerful and exible digital down-
conversion on 2 channels. The lters and local oscillators (LO) are
synchronized to maintain constant phase and timing relationships
allowing phase-coherent post processing.
The DDC provides three main functions:
– Frequency shifting (tune): Independently shifting each chan-
nels IF signal into baseband, allows the analysis bandwidth
to be set around the signal of interest.
– Data reduction (zoom): Reducing the bandwidth and sample
rate to match the analyzed signal decreases the amount of
data that needs to be transferred for a given capture dura-
tion, in turn accelerating post-processing operations.
– Magnitude trigger: Setting the magnitude level that the
down converted signal needs to achieve at a specied
frequency and bandwidth to generate a digital trigger on all
channels.
These functions allow isolation of the signal of interest from
other signals in a crowded spectrum, improved dynamic range
as the integrated noise is reduced, and increased SNR and
effective number of bits (ENOB). The resulting advantage for your
application is a reduced test time, while improving overall test
efciency.
TSR triggered simultaneous acquisition and readout

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Firmware Development
U5340A - FPGA Development Kit1
The FPGA development kit is primarily intended to open the
design of the FPGA to specic user requirements by providing
a development framework that interfaces to the underlying
hardware.
The FPGA development kit combines capabilities to:
– Achieve multi GS/s real-time processing on a full digitizer
framework by leveraging the full density and speed of the
FPGA.
– Shorten time-to-market with turn-key, easy-to-use
development ow and debug.
There are several rationales to consider developing custom signal
processing such as:
– Data throughput optimization
– Real time processing
– Implementation of custom IP and OEM technical know-how
– Re-usability and upgradability.
The FPGA development kit includes everything you need: source
code, ready-to-use base design, a set of cores to easily interface
to the underlying hardware, a test-bench environment for design
and simulation, and automated building script.
ADC interface
Calibration digitizer
Configuration
Custom
real-time
processing
DDR3
Ctrl
SRAM
Ctrl
DDR3
Ctrl
PCIe
Gen 2
System monitoring Clock/reset manager
FPGA
Figure 5. Enlarged block diagram of the FPGA Xilinx Virtex-6
Predened Keysight IP cores
Custom real-time processing (using the FPGA development kit)
For more information:
Keysight U5340A - FPGA Development Kit for High-Speed Digitizers
Keysight product brochure 5991-2424EN
http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5991-2424EN.pdf
1. This standalone software package must be acquired separately.

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Application Options1
For specic applications the M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/
Wideband Digital Receiv er can be congured with specic
options:
–CB0: Digitizer streaming and recording
–CB2: Digital down converter streaming and recording at
1.6 GS/s
–BB1: High delity digitizer
CB0 digitizer streaming and recording
CB0 is a turnkey reference bundle, based on the continuous
simultaneous acquisition and readout architecture, implementing
a real time digitizer data recorder for gapless acquisition. It
includes a command line application ensuring performance of
up to 2 GB/s2 in a specic qualied system. An easy to use data
viewer application is also provided.
This digitizer streaming and recording option with bundled appli-
cations provides:
– Guaranteed recording specication
– Various recording speed controlled by application
– Adaptable sampling rate (decimation and external clock)
– Data throughput optimization (12-bit, 10-bit or 8-bit mode).
This option is added on top of a M9203A pre-congured version
composed of:
– 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (-SR2) or up to 2 GS/s (-SR2, -INT,
with external clock)
– Full bandwidth (-F10)
– 4 GB acquisition memory (-M40)
– Digitizer rmware (-DGT)
The digitizer data streamer application is an intuitive command
line application which allows to control the M9203A and adapts
its data rate to the target application.
The data viewer is a graphical user interface (GUI) application
which allows to read, display, select and export the data stored.
2 GB/s
SSD
Data
Storage
M9203A PXIe Digitizer
Channel 2
Channel 1 Up to 3 GB/s
Recommended
Host PC
CB2 digital down-conversion streaming and
recording
This bundle enables continuous gapless acquisition, implementing:
– Digital down converter functionality in real time
– Data steaming to host
– Multichannel recording to disk all I/Q samples for later analysis.
– Independent local-oscillators, with phase-coherency between
channels.
The -CB2 option is added on top of a M9203A pre-congured
version composed of:
– 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (-SR2)
– Full bandwidth (-F10)
– 4 GB acquisition memory (-M40)
– Digitizer rmware (-DGT)
This option provides:
– Guaranteed recording specication up to 320 MHz
instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) with tunable intermediate
frequency with recommended conguration.
– Data throughput optimization (I/Q samples with 32-bit, 16-bit
or 12-bit mode).
The option includes an intuitive command line application allowing
to control the M9203A and a data viewer providing a simple
graphical user interface (GUI) which allows to read, display, select
and export the data stored.
Maximum streaming and recording performance is guaranteed
using an additional qualied host computer system with specic
storage devices conguration.4
BB1 high delity digitizer
This high delity digitizer option provides enhanced performance
by:
– Compensating the ADC and front-end distortion
– Minimizing interleave spurs
– Reducing the overall noise bandwidth.
This results in highly improved and uniform measurement delity
across the useful bandwidth, which greatly benets RF and wireless
frequency domain measurements. The digitizer’s post processing
compensation also delivers better spurious-free dynamic range
(SFDR) and intermodulation product (IMx) specications.
This application option is pre-congured with:
– 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (-SR2)
Leaving choice of bandwidth and memory, for optional use in -BB1
mode, recommendation is:
– 650 MHz bandwidth (-F05)
– 256 MB acquisition memory (-M02)
It allows the following usage as high delity digitizer:
– 1.6 GS/s with 650 MHz bandwidth, up to 64 MSamples/ch.
– 800 MS/s with 400 MHz bandwidth, up to 32 MSamples/ch.
– 400 MS/s with 200 MHz bandwidth, up to 16 MSamples/ch.
– 200 MS/s with 100 MHz bandwidth, up to 8 MSamples/ch.
– 100 MS/s with 50 MHz bandwidth, up to 4 MSamples/ch.
1. Application options are delivered on the high-speed digitizer DVD.
2. Equivalent to: 2 GS/s in 8-bit mode, 1.6 GS/s in 10-bit mode, and
1.3 GS/s in 12-bit mode.
3. To reach the guaranteed performances the system requires both an
external computer and data storage.
4. Keysight proposes full system and installation services. Please contact
support at digitizers@keysight.com for additional information.
Figure 6. Streaming options (-CB0, -CB2) are proposed with a recommended host
PC and SSD. Performance is guaranteed with specic congurations3.
Maximum streaming and recording performance is guaranteed
using an additional qualied host computer system with specic
storage devices conguration.4

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Technical Specications and Characteristics
Analog input (IN1 and IN2 SMA connectors)
Number of channels 2 (without INT option), 2 or 1 (with INT option)
Impedance 50 Ω ±2 %
Coupling DC
Full scale ranges (FSR) 1 V and 2 V
Maximum input voltage 1V FSR: Clamp at ± 3.6 V, absolute maximum DC voltage rating ± 4.6 V
2V FSR: Clamp at ± 6.3 V, absolute maximum DC voltage rating ± 5.0 V
Input voltage offset –2xFSR to +2xFSR
Input frequency range (-3 dB bandwidth) -F05, -SR2 DC to 650 MHz (nominal) in 1V FSR at 1.6 GS/s
DC to 650 MHz (nominal) in 2V FSR at 1.6 GS/s
-F05, -SR2, -INT DC to 650 MHz (nominal) in 1V FSR at 3.2 GS/s
DC to 650 MHz (nominal) in 2V FSR at 3.2 GS/s
-F10, -SR2 DC to 1.9 GHz (nominal) in 1V FSR at 1.6 GS/s
DC to 2.0 GHz (nominal) in 2V FSR at 1.6 GS/s
-F10, -SR2, -INT DC to 1.4 GHz (nominal) in 1V FSR at 3.2 GS/s
DC to 1.4 GHz (nominal) in 2V FSR at 3.2 GS/s
DC gain accuracy ± 0.5% (nominal) in 1V FSR
± 0.7% (nominal) in 2V FSR
Offset accuracy ± 0.5% in 1V FSR
± 1.5% in 2V FSR
Time skew1Skew between channels250 ps (nominal)
Channel-to-channel skew stability3± 200 fs pk (nominal)
75 fs RMS (nominal)2
Bandwidth limit lters (BWL) 650 MHz (nominal) for -SR2
Effective number of bits (ENOB)4-SR2 @ 410 MHz 9.1 (nominal)
Signal to noise ratio (SNR)4-SR2 @ 410 MHz 57 dB (nominal)
Spurious free dynamic range (SFDR)4-SR2 @ 410 MHz 64 dBc (nominal)
Total harmonic distortion (THD)4-SR2 @ 410 MHz –64 dB (nominal)
1. The channel-to-channel skew is dened as the magnitude of time delay difference between two digitized channel inputs, granted the same signal is
provided to each channel at the exact same time.
2. The measurement represents the maximum time skew between 2 channels of a single unit, measured with a Sinet method on 100 kSamples, for a sinusoid
signal at 400 MHz and averaged 10 times.
3. Skew and offset stability are measured at 25 °C in a climatic chamber. The skew and offset between channels are measured every 5 minutes over 12 hours
and after 1 hour stabilization time and the values represent the dispersion of the measurements.
4. Measured for a –1 dBFS input signal in internal clock mode with option -F10 at 1.6 GS/s (option -SR2).

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Technical Specications and Characteristics (continued)
Digital conversion
Resolution 12 bits
Acquisition memory -M02
-M10
-M40
256 MB (64 MSamples/ch)
1 GB (256 MSamples/ch)
4 GB (1 GSamples/ch)
Sample clock sources Internal or external
Internal clock source Internal, external reference
Real-time sampling rates -SR2
-SR2, -INT
1.6 GS/s
3.2 GS/s
Sampling jitter 225 fs (nominal)1
Clock accuracy ±15 ppm (nominal)
External clock source (CLK IN MMCX connector)
Impedance 50 Ω (nominal)
Frequency range2-SR2 1.8 GHz to 3.2 GHz
Signal level +5 dBm to +15 dBm (nominal), 0 V DC
Coupling AC
External reference clock (REF IN SMB connector)
Impedance 50 Ω (nominal)
Frequency range 100 MHz ±1 kHz (nominal)
Signal level –3 dBm to +3 dBm (nominal)
Coupling AC
Acquisition modes (depends on rmware options) Single shot, sequence3, continuous
1. Jitter gure based on phase noise integration from 100 Hz to 1600 MHz.
2. The sampling rate corresponds to half of the external clock frequency in 2-channel mode (non interleaved channels). In interleaved mode (only available
with the INT option), the sampling rate corresponds to the frequency of the external clock signal.
3. Up to 131072 records. Record maximum length = memory size/number of channels.

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1. At 10 MHz on a 50 Ω load.
2. I/0 3 reserved for future use.
3. Only on I/O 1.
4. At maximum sample rate or at decimated sampling rate down to 1/16 of the highest sample rate (1/32 of the highest sample rate with interleaving).
Technical Specications and Characteristics (continued)
Trigger
Trigger modes Positive or negative edge
Trigger sources External, Software, Channel
Channel trigger frequency range DC to 250 MHz
External trigger (TRG IN SMB connector)
Coupling DC
Impedance 50 Ω (nominal)
Level range ± 5 V (nominal)
Minimum amplitude 0.5 V pk-pk
Frequency range DC to 2 GHz (nominal)
Maximum time stamp duration -SR2 32 days
Trigger time interpolator resolution4 6.25 ps (nominal)
Trigger time interpolator precision415 ps RMS (nominal)
Rearm time (deadtime) -SR2 500 ns (nominal)
Trigger out (TRG OUT SMB connector)11 (programmable), 50 Ω source
Signal level 0.8 Vpp ±2.5 Voffset (nominal) into high impedance
Control IO (I/O 1 and 2 MMCX connectors)2
Output functions Acquisition active
Trigger is armed
Trigger accept resynchronization
100 MHz reference clock divided by 23
Sampling clock divided by 323
Low level
High level
FPGA synchronization
Input/output function FPGA programmable I/O

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1. Samples of this product have been type tested in accordance with the Keysight Environmental Test Manual and veried to be robust against the environ-
mental stresses of Storage, Transportation and End-use; those stresses include but are not limited to temperature, humidity, shock, vibration, altitude and
power line conditions. Test Methods are aligned with IEC 60068-2 and levels are similar to MIL-PRF-28800F Class 3.
Technical Specications and Characteristics (continued)
Environmental and physical1
Temperature range Operating 0 to +50 °C (sea-level to 10,000 feet)2
0 to +45 °C (10,000 to 15,000 feet)2
Non-operating –40 to +70 °C
Altitude Up to 15,000 feet (4’572 meters)
EMC Complies with European EMC Directive
– IEC/EN 61326-1
– CISPR Pub 11 Group 1, class A
– AS/NZS CISPR 11
– ICES/NMB-001
This ISM device complies with Canadian ICES-001.
Cet appareil ISM est conforme à la norme NMB-001 du Canada.
Acoustic European Machinery Directive
Acoustic noise emission
LpA < 70 dB
Operator position
Normal operation mode
Power dissipation
+ 3.3 V + 12 V Power on PXI connector
3.2 A (typical) 3.5 A (typical) 55 W (typical)
Mechanical characteristics
Form Factor 3U/2-slot PXI-Express
Chassis slot compatibility: PXI Hybrid, PXIe
Front panel complies with IEEE1101.10 certication
Size Length 185 mm x Width 130 mm x Height 40mm
Weight 0.8 kg (1.76 lbs)

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1. On older PCs with minimum RAM, installation can take a long time when installing the IO Libraries Suite and the .NET Framework.
2. Because of the installation procedure, less disk space may be required for operation than is required for installation. The amount of space listed above is
required for installation. The .NET Framework Runtime Components are installed by default with most Windows installations, so you may not need this
amount of available disk space.
Technical Specications and Characteristics (continued)
System requirements
Topic Windows Linux
Operating systems Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit), All versions
Windows 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit), All versions
Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit).
Note: If using high-speed digitizer applications DVD,
Windows 7 (64-bit) is supported.
Linux Kernel 2.6 or higher (32 or 64-bit), Debian 7.0, CentOS 6
Processor speed 1 GHz 32-bit (x86), 1 GHz 64-bit (x64),
no support for Itanium 64
As per the minimum requirements of the chosen distribution
Available memory 1 GB minimum1 As per the minimum requirements of the chosen distribution
Available
disk space
2.5 GB available hard disk space, includes:2
–1 GB for Keysight IO Libraries Suite
–1 GB for Microsoft .NET Framework
Note: 400 MB for high-speed digitizer applications.
100 MB
Display Minimum of 1024 x 768, 96 or 120 DPI No display required
Browser Use a supported version of Internet Explorer;
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969393
Distribution supplied browser
Denitions for specications
Specications describe the warranted performance of calibrated cards that have been stored for a minimum of 2 hours within the
operating temperature range of 0 to 50 °C, unless otherwise stated, and after a 45 minute warm-up period. Data represented in this
document are specications unless otherwise noted.
Characteristics describe product performance that is useful in the application of the product, but that is not covered by the product
warranty. Characteristics are often referred to as Typical or Nominal values.
– Typical describes characteristic performance, which 80% of cards will meet when operated over a 20 to 30 °C temperature range.
Typical performance is not warranted.
– Nominal describes representative performance that is useful in the application of the product when operated over a 20 to 30 °C
temperature range. Nominal performance is not warranted.
Note: All graphs contain measured data from several units at room temperature unless otherwise noted.
Calibration
The M9203A is factory calibrated and shipped with a certicate of calibration.

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Ordering information
Model Description
M9203A PXIe 12-bit PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband
Digital Receiver
Includes:
-Software examples and product information on CD
-MMCX male to BNC male cable, 1m (qty 1)
Congurable options
Sampling rate
M9203A–SR2 1.6 GS/s sampling rate (3.2 GS/s with -INT option)
Bandwidth
M9203A-F05 650 MHz bandwidth
M9203A-F10 Full bandwidth
Memory
M9203A-M02 256 MB (64 MS/ch) acquisition memory
M9203A-M10 1 GB (256 MS/ch) acquisition memory
M9203A-M40 4 GB (1 GS/ch) acquisition memory
Firmware
M9203A-DGT Digitizer rmware
M9203A-INT Interleaved channel sampling functionality
M9203A-FDK
Custom rmware capability
M9203A-TSR Triggered simultaneous acquisition and readout
M9203A-DDC Wideband real-time digital down-conversion
Applications
M9203A-CB0 Digitizer streaming and recording
M9203A-CB2 Digital down-converter streaming at 1.6 GS/s
M9203A-BB1 High delity digitizer
These options represent the standard conguration
Advantage services: calibration
Keysight Advantage Services is committed to your success throughout
your equipment’s lifetime.
M9203A-A6J Commercial calibration certicate with test data
Conguration and Ordering Information
Software information
Supported operating
systems and host
computers
Windows 10, 8.1 or 7 (32-bit and 64-bit),
All versions
Linux
Standard compliant
drivers
IVI-COM, IVI-C, MATLAB
Supported application
development
environments (ADE)
VisualStudio (VB.NET, C#, C/C++), VEE,
LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, MATLAB
Please contact Keysight for other options not shown:
digitizers@keysight.com
Model Description
U5300A-102 MMCX male to BNC male cable, 1 m
U5300A-112 SMB female to BNC male cable, 1 m
Accessories

14 | Keysight | M9203A PXIe High-Speed Digitizer/Wideband Digital Receiver - Data Sheet
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