Enhanced spectrum analyzers capture 10.3-μs events

Enhanced spectrum analyzers capture 10.3-μs events

The merger of digital and traditional RF technologies presents designers of even common, everyday electronic communication devices with a whole new set of problems — such as elusive broadband transients, DSP errors, and so-called “runt” pulses — that make troubleshooting more complex and time-consuming. Enhanced with advanced time, amplitude, and trigger functions as well as swept Digital Phosphor Spectrum Processing (swept DPX), RSA6000 Series real-time spectrum analyzers provide faster discovery and capture of intermittent, rapidly changing signals.

Said to be a reinvention of the swept spectrum analyzer, the instruments’ swept-DPX engine collects over 292,000 spectrums per second over a 110-MHz bandwidth. The analyzers can sweep across their full 14-GHz input range, capturing events with duration as low as 10.3 µs — signals other analyzers cannot even see let along trigger on.

Triggering on such events is as simple as pointing at the signal on the display and invoking the Trigger on This feature. Other unique trigger enhancements include the runt trigger and the ability to time-qualify any trigger. (From $ 77,900; upgrades to existing units also available — available now.)

Tektronix , Beaverton , OR
Information 800-833-9200
http://www.tek.com