Tektronix's Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers Show Live RF

(Product News, 5 Feb 2008)

Tektronix Inc. has added the DPX waveform image processor technology to its mid-range RSA3000B Series Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers, providing a unique live RF view of the spectrum using the RSA3300B and RSA3408B family models to enable RF signal discovery capability for a broad range of digital RF applications including RFID, radio communications, and spectrum management. DPX transforms volumes of real-time data and produces a live RF spectrum display that reveals previously unseen RF signals and signal anomalies.

The DPX waveform image processor technology in the RSA3300B Series and RSA3408B models displays the live spectrum by processing >48,000 spectrum measurements per second, similar to the previously announced RSA6114A model.

With a spectrum processing rate hundreds of times greater than any spectrum analyzer from other vendors, the RSA3300B series and RSA3408B provide 100 percent probability of intercept for transients as brief as 31µs on the RSA3408B and 41µ on the RSA3300B Series models. Capable of triggering on transient signals in both time and frequency domains, the RSA3300B Series and RSA3408B offer troubleshooting and debug of digital RF designs.

The RSA3300B series is available with either DC to 3GHz or DC to 8GHz frequency coverage. With 15MHz capture bandwidth and 70dB Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR), the RSA3300Bs are ideal for use in the design and debug of 3G mobile systems, Near-Field systems (such as RFID and Bluetooth), and narrow to medium bandwidth communications systems.

The RSA3408B with DC to 8GHz frequency coverage, 36MHz capture bandwidth and 73dB SFDR is tailored for higher bandwidth and dynamic range applications including 3G mobile components and system debug, WLAN and WiMax system design, demanding spectrum management applications and general purpose digital RF debug.

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