And here it is, as promised: teardown of my Rohde & Schwarz ADS dual channel arbitrary waveform generator (with option B1 - clock generator installed)
Link to the product side at R&S:
ADSHere are some specs:
- Output voltage 0 to 20V
pp, I
max = +/-100mA, 0 to 10V into 50 Ohm
- Sine 0.1 Hz to 5 MHz, Triangle 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz
- 12 bit amplitude resolution
- 64Kpoints waveform memory per channel
- 2 independent programmable channels
- Spectral purity - low distortion typ. -70dB
For more detailed information I've attached the brochure from R&S.
Okay, so let's start with the pictures.
![](https://i.imgur.com/oxSy2WV.jpg)
Front and back view
The plastic of the handle is very brittle, broken foot (it was already like that, it was not due to the transport), nice attention to detail: foot folded in, foot folded out
![](https://i.imgur.com/w9glsW9.jpg)
Closer views of the backside. I like this massive heat sink. Another nice detail: massive EMC shielding everywhere.
Mains input, mains switch, very nice toroidal transformer, power supply unit with a nice copper bar
![](https://i.imgur.com/fw8pKiD.jpg)
Top side overview, mainboard top side, mainboard bottom side - very nice are those testpoints for easy checking the power rail voltages
![](https://i.imgur.com/mNCRhPP.jpg)
And some RF cableing, very well done (as to be expected from R&S)
Hope you've enjoyed this little teardown. I didn't want to remove the modules and take them apart, because I didn't want to touch the RF cableing (I'm not Shahriar after all
![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
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Thank you for watching.