Agilent EXA Signal Analyzer

Power Suite Measurements

c.As in footnote b, the specified ACPR accuracy applies if the ACPR measured substantially exceeds the analyzer dynamic range at the specified offset. When this condition is not met, there are additional errors due to the addition of analyzer spectral components to UUT spec- tral components. Unlike the situation in footnote b, though, the spectral components from the analyzer will be non-coherent with the components from the UUT. Therefore, the errors add in a power sense. The error is a function of the signal (UUT ACPR) to noise (analyzer ACPR dynamic range limitation) ratio, SN, in decibels.

The function is error = 10 × log(1 + 10−SN/10).

For example, if the UUT ACPR is −75 dB and the measurement floor is −85 dB, the SN ratio is 10 dB and the error due to adding the analyzer's noise to that of the UUT is 0.41 dB.

Fast ACPR Test [Plota]

 

 

Fast ACP - Standard Deviation vs. Time

 

 

0.50

 

 

 

(dB)

0.45

 

 

 

0.40

 

 

 

0.35

 

 

 

Deviation

 

 

 

0.30

 

Sweep Time = 6.2 ms

 

0.25

 

 

 

 

 

0.20

 

 

 

Standard

 

 

 

0.15

 

 

 

0.10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0.05

 

 

 

 

0.00

10 ms

20 ms

40 ms

 

5 ms

 

 

Nominal Measurement and Transfer Time (log)

 

a.Observation conditions for ACP speed:

Display Off, signal is Test Model 1 with 64 DPCH, Method set to Fast. Measured with an IBM compatible PC with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 running Windows XP Professional Version 2002. The communications medium was PCI GPIB IEEE 488.2. The Test Application Lan- guage was .NET C#. The Application Communication Layer was Agilent T&M Program- mer’s Toolkit For Visual Studio (Version 1.1), Agilent I/O Libraries (Version M.01.01.41_beta).

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N9010A specifications

Agilent Technologies, now known as Keysight Technologies, offers a wide range of sophisticated measurement instruments, one of which is the N9010A, a high-performance signal analyzer. The N9010A is a versatile tool designed to meet the needs of engineers and researchers dealing with complex signal generation and analysis.

The N9010A signal analyzer is built on the X-Series signal analysis platform, making it an outstanding choice for various applications, including wireless communication, radar, and electronic warfare. Its main features include an extensive frequency range from 9 kHz to 6 GHz, which provides users with the capability to analyze a diverse array of signals.

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