Agilent Technologies 89600 manual VSA software, Required software revisions

1.1 89600 VSA software

The 89600 vector signal analyzer software is the heart of the broadband VSA. This software provides flexible tools for analyzing and demodulating even the most advanced digital modu- lations, including those not defined by an established standard.

The VSA makes measurements on signals in the time and frequency domains using either the BB (baseband) or IF Zoom mode. In BB mode, the analysis frequency range is from 0 Hz to the stop frequency. In IF Zoom mode, the analysis frequency range is defined by center frequency and span. There is also an I+jQ mode for analyzing two baseband quadrature channels. Results for any mode can be displayed as magnitude

or phase, in I/Q and several other formats.

With the optional digital demodulator, Option 89600-AYA, modulation quality measurements in the form of error vector magnitude (EVM) can be made on digital wireless communica- tions signals with bandwidths of hundreds of MHz. In addition, powerful diagnosis capabili- ties allow you to determine the exact impairments that cause a digitally modulated signal to fail quality standards.

The features of the digital demodulator include variable-block-size signal acquisition, pulse burst edge search, synch word search and a user-controllable adaptive equalizer.

User-selectable filter types include cosine (raised and square-root raised), Gaussian, low- pass, and user-defined. You can vary the filter alpha/BT shape factor. Supported modulation formats for both burst and continuous carriers include FSK, BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK, DQPSK, π/4DQPSK, 8PSK, QAM (16 to 1024), and MSK.

In addition, the 89600 software provides a signal record feature for later playback and analysis.

1.2 Required software revisions

Using the 89600 Series VSA software with Agilent Acqiris high-speed digitizers requires compatible software versions:

Table 2. Required software versions

Agilent Acqiris Software for	AcqirisSoftware 3.2
Windows®	(Driver AqDrv4.dll 4.13) or later
For baseband operation:
89600 VSA	v8.00 or later
Acqiris VSA Server	1.0 or later
For HF operation:
89600 VSA	v9.00 or later
Acqiris VSA Server	2.0 or later

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