M5000 Series High-Performance PXI System

Meet the M5000 Series

Welcome to the all-new Keysight M5000 Series. With an RF AWG, digitizer, digital I/O, and downconverter modules, the M5000 Series is a high-performance PXI system that enables the latest innovations in quantum, aerospace defense, and more.

M5000 Series overview

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Quantum control

The M5000 Series forms the backbone for the Keysight Quantum Control System (QCS) – complete digital solution that eliminates the need to design custom control solutions.

Analog LOs and mixers in traditional hardware used for quantum control require frequent calibration, introduce leakage noise, and contribute to slow drifts in the performance of the system. The Keysight M5000 Series fully eliminates the need for these components leading to enhanced ease-of-use, unrivaled noise performance, and improved long-term stability. 

M5000 Series Modules

M5200A Digitizer

The M5200A is a single-slot PXIe four-channel, high-speed digitizer. It is a highperformance digitizer with easy-to-use programming libraries, real-time sequencing technology, and FPGA programming. 

The digitizer module supports four 2 GHz channels with 4.8 GSa/s sampling rate and 12-bits of resolution for high-definition sampling in quantum computing and aerospace applications. Users can create IP and processing algorithms in the FPGA. Users also have the ability for data usage outside of the module with the ability to transfer data directly over the PCIe backplane.

M5201A Downconverter

The M5201A is a single-slot PXIe low-IF downconverter module with four pairs of RF/IF channels and a single, shared, internal local oscillator (LO). The RF input frequency range is 2 to 16 GHz. The intermediate frequency (IF) ranges from 10 MHz to 2.4 GHz.

The clock generator on the M5201A provides a reference which is then used to generate the Local Oscillator (LO) frequency required for the application. Inputs to the clock generator include the front panel 2.4 GHz clock input, the 100 MHz PXIe clock, and DSTAR clock from the chassis. When used with the -QS1 option on the M9046A chassis, the 2.4 GHz clock provides minimal phase noise and drift.

M5300A RF AWG

The M5300A is a two-slot PXIe module with four high-speed AWG outputs, clock input and output, and eight triggers. It provides high-performance with easy-to-use programming libraries, real-time sequencing technology, and FPGA programming.

The M5300A RF AWG module supports four directly synthesized RF channels in 2 PXIe slots with up to 16 GHz of RF and 2 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth using direct digital I/Q modulation. The M5300A provides a waveform memory per channel of 1 GSample – half real (I) samples and half imaginary (Q) samples.

The M5300A includes a PathWave FPGA with user-customizable customer accessible area. The FPGA resource reserved for the customer configurable area is approximately 25% of the total XVCU35P FPGA resources. The customer configurable area in the M5300A reserves approximately 98% of CLB registers and 98% of LUTs for the user application.