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Active Technologies is an Italian company and original equipment manufacturer of high performance Arbitrary Waveform Generator and fast Pulse Generator instruments. The products are fully designed and manufactured in Italy.

2003–2008
The company was founded as a Start-up of the University if Ferrara (Italy) with the mission to develop and design innovative test-equipment. The first innovative product that reached the Market was a non-volatile memory test equipment called RIFLE (Research Instrument for Flash Evaluation). The equipment has been sold to all the major Non-Volatile memory companies in Europe and Asia, due to its high performance hardware and easy to use software.

2008 to 2016
In 2008 the company spinned out from Ferrara's University and became a 100% private company. The company changed ts main focus to design and producing High Performance signal generators and in particular Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Pulse Generators and Pulse Pattern Generators. Active Technologies products are characterized by leadership in technology (the AWG-5000 is the World's fastest 16 Bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator), unique features like wide output voltage range, mixed signal generation (analog and digital outputs) and easy-to-use software interfaces.

In the first decade of the 2000's the company has signed OEM agreements with the major test and measurements companies like Teledyne LeCroy, Tektronix and National Instruments, developing and manufacturing products sold in partnership with those brands. The Teledyne LeCroy ArbStudio - USB Arbitrary Waveform Generator - was designed and manufactured by Active Technologies in Italy and the Teltronix AWG-4000 Series was designed and engineered by Active Technologies and manufactured by Tektronix Inc.

2016 to present
The company never stopped innovating signal generators' market and in the second decade of the 2000's released an innovative bench top series of instruments called Rider Series with its own brand. In 2017 the Pulse Rider PG-1000 was the first instrument that reached the marked and it has been appreciated by many advanced research labs, University and high-tech companies in USA, Europe and Asia. The instrument offers premium signal integrity with the easiest to use touch screen display interface (SimpleRider™), that allows pulse creation in few screen touches. The signal output Voltage can be adjusted up to 5 Volts pk-pk in a window of ±5 Volts with 70 ps edge rate.

In 2018 the AWG-4012, AWG-4014, AWG-4018 Arbitrary Waveform Generators of the Rider Series came out: AWG-4000 offers up to 1 GHz bandwidth, up to 24Vpp output range and up to 128 Msample memory depth, making this family the ideal choice for Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Big Physics and Semiconductor Test applications. In 2018 Active Technologies developed also a dual AWG product called T3AWG3K in collaboration with Teledyne LeCroy.

In 2020 the AWG-2000 Series has been released as a cost-effective and powerful 2 or 4 channel Arbitrary Function Generator (AFG) and 2 or 4 channel Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) with advanced sequencer functionality.The instrument is characterized by 180MHz bandwidth, up to 12Vpp output range and up to 256 Msample memory depth.

In 2021 the company released the AWG-5000, the World's Fastest 16 Bits Arbitrary Waveform General: 6.16 GS/s real time update rate (12.32 GS/s in RF mode) and 16 bit vertical resolution. Available in 2, 4 or 8 channel models, Arb Rider AWG-5000 is the fastest AWG and AFG (Arbitrary Function Generator) in the world and it is able to create Real-world complex signal scenarios. More than 2 GHz of analog bandwidth, up to 5Vpp output range and up to 4 Gsample memory depth, makes the AWG-5000 is the ideal choice for Physics Experiments, Quantum computers, and Aerospace & Defense applications.

Arbitrary Waveform Generators and Pulse Generators models
Just go click to the reference number next to the Active Technologies Product Series. You will be directed to the latest link.


 * 1) Arb Rider AWG-5000 Series Arbitrary waveform Generator
 * 2) Arb Rider AWG-4000 Series Arbitrary waveform Generator
 * 3) Arb Rider AWG-2000 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generator
 * 4) Arb Rider PG-1000 Series Pulse Generator
 * 5) AWG-1102/1104 USB Arbitrary Waveform Generator