Noise typically limits the overall performance of any wireless system and impacts a spectrum analyzer’s ability to measure very low amplitude signals while maintaining high accuracy and fast sweep speed. This app note presents five tips to improve the measurement sensitivity and accuracy for small signals.
LTE – the fastest growing mobile radio standard – had its beginnings in 3GPP Release 8. Initial improvements and new features were implemented in Release 9. This Application Note describes the T&M methods for LTE Release 9 features using Rohde & Schwarz instruments.
Many spectrum analyzers can detect phase noise levels automatically, making phase noise measurements a task without much thought. This paper discusses key aspects in determining phase noise measurements, and presents formulas and examples that may be used for simplifying measurements.
In this application note, Tektronix discusses how its portfolio of test equipment reduces testing uncertainty in the design process and delivers confidence in the integrity of increasingly complex radar designs.
This application note describes how all required transmitter (Tx) tests (TS36.141 Chapter 6) can be performed quickly and easily by using signal and spectrum analyzers from Rohde & Schwarz.
The FL7030 is a smart, fast, extremely accurate electric field probe that contains an internal microprocessor to provide linearization, temperature compensation, control, and communication functions.
The AR CI Systems are self-contained conducted immunity test systems that provide outstanding ease of use and flexibility. Because each system is contained in a single rack, setup issues are eliminated.
D-TA Systems offers the MFEL 1000 portable ELINT data collection solution designed to provide automatic spectrum scanning for signal activity (pulse or CW), PDW extraction and de-interleaving to tracks where signal characterization is performed automatically. The system includes a built-in 6 TB (expandable to 18 TB) SSD data storage for I/Q data collection in both on-site and off-site analysis.
Rohde & Schwarz introduces the R&S Scope Rider as the first handheld, portable oscilloscope with the functionality and feel of a state-of-the-art lab instrument. This device combines five instrument functions into a compact rugged design, making it perfect for mobile installation and maintenance applications in both the lab and the field. The Scope Rider can also function as a logic analyzer with eight additional digital channels, as a protocol analyzer with trigger and decoding capability, as a data logger and a digital multi-meter.
These low-noise and fast-switching microwave signal generators cover a continuous frequency range of 100 kHz up to 12, 20, and 26.5 GHz, and are available in a fully customizable OEM/1U rack mount configuration. They’re ideally suited for applications that require a high-quality CW microwave source or versatile modulation.
The S331L handheld cable and antenna analyzer is ideal for tower contractors and wireless service providers that need a rugged, handheld field instrument to provide high-performance cable and antenna analysis to ensure optimum deployment, installation, and maintenance of wireless networks.
The FlexMatrix reconfigurable RF switch matrix allows test engineers that work in radar, consumer wireless, and military communications applications to easily adjust, modify, or expand their RF switching capabilities.
This fast-switching synthesizer operates in the 2500 MHz to 3000 MHz frequency range and is ideal for applications involving test and measurement equipment, simulator systems, or as a local oscillator in advanced radar receiver systems.
