ZTEC Instruments Expands Product Line to Offer RF Test Equipment

ZTEC Instruments teams with Astronics DME Corporation (NASDAQ: ATRO, http://dmecorp.com) to jointly develop a high performance RF/IF digitizer. “ZTEC Instruments currently offers an impressive selection of oscilloscopes and waveform generators. Expanding into the RF market was a natural technological adjacency for us given our partnership with Astronics DME Corporation, leaders in Radio Test Solutions (RTS),” said ZTEC Instruments’ CEO Christopher Ziomek. “In fact, some of our customers are already using our current products for RF solutions,” added Ziomek.

“Teaming with ZTEC Instruments allows us to deliver our cutting edge RTS Intellectual Property to a broader customer base. The ZT8441 includes our wideband Digital Down Converter (DDC) FPGA IP for high speed measurement capability” said Astronics DME Corporation General Manager and Executive Vice President Brian Price. The quick introduction and release of the ZT8441 is made possible because it is closely matched to ZTEC Instruments’ current hardware used in oscilloscopes and waveform generators.

The ZT8441 RF/IF Digitizer comes standard with a full featured, on-instrument spectrum analyzer, and is poised to supply the rapidly growing RF market with a world-class testing solution at a competitive price. The ZT8441 is equipped with future-proof technical specifications including:

* Real-time Quadrature DDC with fractional resampling and decimation
* Vector signal analysis capability of an ultra wide, 156.25MHz instantaneous bandwidth
* Extremely low noise floor and a high dynamic range
* Fast switching and all-digital frequency hopping
* Real-time highly flexible FPGA processing