16 M8100 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generators Getting Started Guide
1 Introduction
 
M8008A Clock Generator
Keysight’s M8008A clock generator is designed as sample clock source 
for:
• M8198A 128 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generators
• M8199A 128/256 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generators
• M8199B 256 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generators
It can also be used as a standalone low-jitter clock source for other 
applications. It has four outputs that provides an output frequency of 
32 GHz to 64 GHz. It has two system trigger inputs that allow system 
control from external hardware. It also allows synchronous trigger 
distribution over local bus on the AXIe chassis backplane to adjacent AWG 
modules.
The M8008A is an instrument module that can be installed into the 
M9505A 5-slot AXIe chassis. It comes as a 1-slot AXIe module, which 
allows the M8008A plus either one M8198A AWG modules or up to two 
M8199A / M8199B modules to be plugged into a single 5-slot AXIe 
chassis.
The M8008A Clock Generator module provides the following key features:
• 32 - 64 GHz continuous frequency range
• Output amplitude up to +10 dBm
• Very low intrinsic jitter and wideband phase noise
• Four clock outputs can drive up to:
• one M8198A AWG module (=2 channels)
• four M8199A AWG modules (=16 channels)
• four M8199B AWG modules (=8 channels)