Amplifier Research - ampwebwARe software
Beginning in 2019, AR will be embedding ampwebwARe in all new amplifiers. Once an amplifier is connected to a network and an IP address is set, any other device connected to that network can access the amplifier’s embedded webpage. The features of this embedded webpage include:
- All Information Shown on One Screen
- Simple User Interface
- Allows for Remote Diagnostics
- Monitor Status from Anywhere
- Multiple Simultaneous Browser Connections
- Many Supported Web Browsers
As technology evolves, electronic devices continue to take on a more mobile and virtual nature. While RF and microwave amplifiers themselves may never become truly ‘mobile’, the way we control them can be. AR’s ampwebwARe gives you the capability to monitor and control your amplifier remotely without needing any software of your own. If the user switches to ‘remote’, the front panel locks and the user can control the amplifier from an embedded webpage. Through this webpage, you can look at the power the amplifier is generating, the hours of operation, and manage all the controls remotely that you would normally do from the front panel of the amplifier.
ampwebwARe Layout and Tables
The data presented to the user is categorized into various sets. Each set of data is shown as a table with its own header. Different amplifier models will contain different sets of data, depending on its complexity. At a minimum, a webpage will contain a monitor table and control table. The monitor table will always come before the control table. The monitor table shows data which is updated periodically. Above the monitor table there is a time stamp which indicates the last time that the information in the table was updated.
The control table allows data to be entered to control the amplifier. This data is sent to the amplifier via a ‘Send’ button corresponding to each adjustment. Examples of monitor and control functions include monitoring forward and reverse power, adjusting gain and setting the amp’s internal ALC. Depending on the amplifier model, other tables may be available as well. These tables can include status information about an amplifier’s firmware revisions, transistor currents, and module temperatures. An example layout is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Example Layout of ampwebwARe
Conclusion
In order to modernize our amplifiers, AR is providing ampwebwARe in all of our new amplifiers. This software allows for remote communication to AR amplifiers through any device connected to the same network as the amplifier, via an embedded webpage. From this embedded webpage, the user can both monitor and control the amplifier. If you would like to learn more about ampwebwARe, feel free to contact one of our applications engineers at 800-933-8181 or visit our website at www.arworld.us.
More Product Information
- All Digital IF technology
- 10.1” WVGA (1024 x 600) Display
- Frequency range from 9 KHz up to 3.2 GHz
- -161 dBm/Hz Displayed Average Noise Level (Typ)
- -98 dBc/Hz @ 10 khz Offset Phase Noise (Typ)
- Total Amplitude Accuracy < 0.7 dB
- 1 Hz Minimum Resolution Bandwidth (RBW)
- Comes with Preamplifier
AR Microwave horns take microwave coverage to a new level. Our broadband RF and microwave horn antennas are specially designed to compensate for the losses that typically occur in test systems as frequency increases. They exhibit increasing gain with increasing frequency, up to 50 GHz. AR microwave horn antennas can be used in shielded rooms or in free space.
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Wide Input Bandwidth
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Input Isolation
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Automatic & Manual Changeover
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Transformer Coupled Outputs
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Twenty four Outputs
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Front Panel Status Indicators
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Fault Discrete Inputs
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Compact 1U, 19” rack mount
AR’s state-of-the-art multi-tone systems are designed to test RF Radiated and Conducted Immunity faster than ever before. Both the MT2IEC10V3M and MT4IEC10V3M fully comply with IEC 61000-4-3:2020 Edition 4, allowing for multiple tone testing, reducing test time by up to 74%. Commercial, aviation, and automotive industries, will perform RF radiated and conducted immunity testing faster, more accurately, more efficiently, and more closely to a real-world environment.
With the inclusion of instrumentation hardware and AR’s emcware® software, the MT2IEC10V3M and MT4IEC10V3M are full turn-key systems in one rack, capable of producing 18 V/m CW (10 V/m AM). The MT2IEC10V3M reduces test time by up to 50% and the MT4IEC10V3M reduces test time by up to 74%. Customized systems achieving higher field strengths are also available, using this approach.
We have complete standard and custom test systems that perform entire radiated immunity tests with just the press of a few buttons. Everything you need – amplifiers, antennas, couplers, signal generators, system controllers, receivers, and more, along with the software to control it – all in one comprehensive system.
These rugged, dependable high gain log periodic antennas give you the constant high intensity fields you need for RFI and EMI testing in and out of a shielded room. They deliver frequency response and field intensity beyond the norm. AR’s log periodics are designed for high power radiated testing and can be calibrated for emissions.
Their lightweight modular design makes assembly and relocation easy. And they’re built tough, so they can withstand extreme temperatures.
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Network Enabled Time Code Distribution Amplifier
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Dual Time Code Inputs with Auto Failover
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Support for Analog Time Codes between 100Hz and 100KHz
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Programmable per channel amplitude
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1U 19” rack mount
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Redundant Hot Swappable Power Supplies
The FI8000 interface provides both power to and communication with the FL8000 series probes. A low-level loop back fiber optic connection is used to sense unexpected disconnect of laser driven fibers to ensure user-safe operation. As an additional safety measure, shuttered connectors are used on all fiber optic connections to and from the probe.
The FI8000 can be used with the FM7004A Field Monitor (using the provided 0.5-meter fiber optic cable) or a PC by direct communication using the IEEE-488 (GPIB), Ethernet, USB 2.0, RS-232 or Fiber-Optic Serial interfaces.
- Octave Frequencies: 1-2 GHz and 2-4 GHz
- Narrowband Frequencies: 1.2-1.4 GHz & 2.7-3.1 GHz
- Power Levels: 1 kW to 150 kW
- Harmonic Distortion of -18dBc @ 1dB compression point
- Pulse Widths to 100 μsec. & Duty Cycles to 10%
- High Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)
- Mismatch Tolerance – Will operate without damage or oscillation with any magnitude and phase of source and load impedance.
- Numerous Applications Possible – Automotive, MIL STD 464, DO-160 and Military
Amplifier Research
Founded in 1969, Amplifier Research is a world-class source for broadband high power, solid state, RF amplifiers and microwave amplifiers, TWT amplifiers, log periodic antennas and high-gain horn antennas, plus EMC test equipment, software and field probes and monitors. Throughout its 50 years (and counting), AR has been responsible for a number of “firsts” which have transformed not only EMC and RF testing but also the industries and equipment affected by these tests. A sampling of these innovations includes:
- 10,000-watt tube amplifiers,100-watt solid-state • 100-1000 MHz instantaneous bandwidth Class A amplifier
- First production 16,000-watt solid-state linear amplifier from 10 kHz to 225 MHz
- 50,000-watt Class A power amplifier up to 225 MHz
- 0.7 to 6 GHz high-power Class A & AB amplifier
Additionally, they push the limits of state-of-the-art design and have ruggedized their products to make them virtually indestructible. AR amplifiers are fully tested to the extreme to ensure customers receive a product that is built to last.
Contact Details
Amplifier Research Corporation, Ametek CTS
160 Schoolhouse Rd., Souderton, PA 18964-9990, USA
Phone: 215-723-8181
Customer Service: 215-723-0275
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