MHINSTEK MHS-5200A

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MHINSTEK MHS-5200A
MHINSTEK MHS-5200A persp.jpg
Status in progress
Frequency (user) 0.01Hz-6MHz/12MHz/20MHz/25Hz
Waveforms sine/square/triangle/sawtooth/arbitrary, TTL rect
Amplitude 20 V (open)/10 V (50 Ohm) (adjustable)
Connectivity USB/serial
Website mhinstek.com

The MHINSTEK MHS-5200A (-06M/12M/20M/25M) is a dual-channel, standalone function generator. It can be controlled with the push-buttons and the rotary encoder on the front panel, or via a USB interface.

Amplitude and offset voltage can be controlled programmatically.

Device also supports different measurements via 'Ext. In' or 'TTL' channels. It can measure: frequency, counter, pulse width, period and duty cycle.

Hardware (Q3 2016 model)

  • FPGA: Lattice MACH XO2 1200HC TQFP-100
  • Clock: unknown
  • STM8S005K6 8-bit MCU with 32 Kbytes Flash, 16 MHz CPU, integrated 128 byte EEPROM STM8S005K6 product page
  • Output stage:
    • R2R-ladder 12bit DAC
    • Signal/DC-offset sum: AD8017 Op-Amp
    • Variable gain amplifier: AD603A
    • Power amplifier: AD812A
    • Output switch relais: 0db/-20db/off
  • 24LC512 I²C EEPROM, 512Kb (64K x 8) for arbitrary waveform data
  • 74AHC14D hex inverting schmitt trigger

According to the specs, the hardware should run at 200MS/s, but measurement shows it only runs at ~175MS/s.

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Connection

The generator has an internal PL2303 USB-to-serial converter. The VID/PID is 067b:2303. Communication parameters are 57600 bps, 8N1.

The earlier 2015 version (firmware 4.22) has CH340 chip for USB-to serial converter, so the VID/PID is 1a86:7523, while rest of the components and functions remain unchanged.

Protocol

The generator uses a plain text protocol for communication.

Each command (set or read) starts with ':' and has to be terminated with a newline, ASCII code 0x0a (but CRLF, i.e. 0x0d 0x0a, is also accepted).

Set commands are acknowledged with an 'ok' response, read commands echo the request followed by the parameter value.

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