Measurement Testing

Mjr · Site Admin Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 294

RF signals have become common in today's electronic world. To allow devices and systems that rely on RF technology to work in harmony today's RF signals have become very transient in nature. The need to resist interference, avoid detection and improve capacity has led to sophisticated combinations of transient techniques like burst or pulsed transmissions, frequency hopping and complex modulation being commonly used.

Working with transient RF signals can create many problems for engineers. How stable is the signal? How well does a device operate in an environment with a lot of RF interference? Does this device interfere with other systems? How does the RF signal change over time? These and similar questions cannot easily be answered with traditional swept spectrum analyzers and vector signal analyzers, but they must be answered before the project can be finished.

Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers (RTSA) can provide the answers by triggering on changes in the frequency domains, seamlessly capturing signals into memory, and analyzing them in the frequency, time, and modulation domains.

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