K+K FXE Phase + Frequency Meter
K+K FXE is a multichannel high resolution phase and frequency counter, which measures the phase of up to 24 channels relative to a common reference signal (10 MHz), synchronous and without dead time. The resolution of a single shot measurement is 12.2 ps, the input frequency range is 4 kHz to 130 MHz, measurement rate is 1k sample/s
A K+K FXE system consists of up to 6 FXE measurement cards, which can be concatenated, each of them providing the phase of the respective input signals for 4 independent channels. Here, "phase" refers to the rapidly and continuously growing absolute value, rather than some phase offset relative to a reference signal.
From the measured phase values, the frequency of the inputs signals can be calculated. Also,
frequency
ratios between different channels may easily be determined, or some slowly varying phase drift
of the
output signals of some device under test with respect to the input signal.
The precision of the measurement can be increased by long-term measuring and special
mathematical
functions, resulting for example in a frequency resolution of 4E-13 using a gate time of 1s.
Measurement results are available in real time and therefore can be used for controlling the
phase of
frequency generators. They are processed by the on-board microprocessor, which performs data
reduction
by e.g. averaging or computation of phase differences among different channels.
Additionally, a PC software for collection, presentation and archiving of measurement data is
included.
A Windows© Dynamic Link Library (DLL) provides for all the protocol handling and data recovery,
delivering ASCII coded decimal floating point numbers to the application which are easily
readable
under all programming languages.
For highest precision applications, an optional reference phase scrambler K+K SCR may be
mounted on the
master board, which under control of the microprocessor varies the phase of the reference 10MHz
synchronously with the phase averaging intervals, thereby allowing to average over the
systematic error
residuals of the electronics. With K+K SCR installed, the phase determination noise floor of
the system
is as low as 1ps for a 1s averaging interval.
The following FXE optional expansions are available:
- FXE-SCR: Phase shifting by a fixed phase value or sweeping over a phase range
- FXE-FDI: Expansion card with 32 digital inputs
- FXE-DCP: Display and Control Panel
- FXE-SWP: Switched Power Supply
Product Features:
- Phase measurement of 4 independent channels per card, 4 kHz...130 MHz, min. 0dBm
- Expandable by additional cards to up to 24 channels
- Resolution single shot: Phase: 12.2 ps; Frequency: 1.2E-11 @ 1s
- Average resolution: Phase: 1 ps @ 1s; Frequency: 4E-13 @ 1s
- Reference clock: External 10 MHz clock (optional internal OCXO)
- Measurement interval: 1ms to 20s
- Case: 19" unit
- Interfaces: Ethernet, USB, RS232, CAN
- Comes complete with evaluation and visualization software
- Customer specific software adaption available
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