Real Time Spectrum Analyzer Tektronix RSA5126B

Description:

The RSA5000 Series Real Time Signal Analyzers replace conventional instruments, offering the measurement confidence and functionality you demand for everyday tasks. The RSA5000 Series offers industry-leading real time specifications and includes best minimum signal duration for 100% probability of intercept and best real time dynamic range. With the RSA5000 Series instruments, you get the functionality of a high-performance spectrum analyzer, wideband vector signal analyzer, and the unique trigger-capture-analyze capability of a real-time spectrum analyzer – all in a single package.

Key performance specifications

• +17 dBm 3rd order intercept at 2 GHz
• ±0.3 dB absolute amplitude accuracy to 3 GHz
• Displayed average noise level: –142 dBm/Hz at 26.5 GHz, –157 dBm/Hz at 2 GHz and –150 dBm/Hz at 10 kHz
• Internal Preamp available: DANL of -156 dBm/Hz at 26.5 GHz, -167 dBm/Hz at 2 GHz
• Phase noise: –113 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz and –134 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz carrier frequency, 10 kHz offset
• High-speed sweeps with high resolution and low noise: 1 GHz sweeps at 10 kHz RBW in <1 second
• Real time spurious free dynamic range of 80 dB with HD options

Key features

• Reduce Time-to-Fault and increase design confidence with Real-time Signal Processing
  • Up to 3,125,000 spectrums per second, enables 100% probability of intercept for signals of 0.434 μs
  • Swept DPX spectrum enables unprecedented signal discovery over full frequency range
  • Advanced DPX including swept DPX, gap-free DPX spectrograms, and DPX zero span with real-time amplitude, frequency, or phase
• Triggers zero in on the Problem
  • DPX density™ trigger on single occurrences as brief as 0.434 μs in frequency domain and distinguish between continuous signals vs infrequent events
  • Advanced time-qualified, runt, and frequency-edge triggers act on complex signals as brief as 20 ns
• Capture the widest and deepest signals
  • 25, 40, 85, 125, or 165 MHz acquisition bandwidths
  • Spurious-free dynamic range of 80 dB over the entire acquisition bandwidth with HD options
  • Acquire more than 5 seconds at 165 MHz bandwidth
• Wideband preselection filter provides image free measurements in entire analysis bandwidth up to 165 MHz
• More standard analysis than you expect in an everyday tool
  • Measurements including channel power, ACLR, CCDF, OBW/EBW, spur search, EMI detectors
  • Amplitude, frequency, phase vs. time, DPX spectrum, and spectrograms
  • Correlated multi-domain displays
• Performance options for best real time and dynamic range and analysis options offer added value
  • High dynamic range options offer unmatched 80 dBc spurious-free analysis in the widest acquisition bandwidth
  • High performance DPX offers industry-leading minumum signal duration for 100% probability of intercept
  • Optional software applications to add dedicated measurements for specific applications and standards
  • AM/FM/PM modulation and audio measurements (Opt. 10)
  • Phase noise and jitter (Opt. 11)
  • Automated settling time measurements (frequency and phase) (Opt. 12)
  • More than 30 pulse measurements, acquisition of more than 200,000 pulses possible for post analysis and cumulative statistics. (Opt. 20)
  • General purpose modulation analysis of more than 20 modulation types (Opt. 21)
  • Simple and complete APCO Project 25 transmitter compliance testing and analysis for Phase 1 (C4FM) and Phase 2 (TDMA) (Opt. 26)
  • WLAN analysis for 802.11 a/b/g/j/p, 802.11n, and 802.11ac (Opts. 23, 24, 25)
  • Noise figure and gain measurements (Opt. 14)
  • Bluetooth® Analysis (Opt. 27 and Opt. 31)
  • Manual and automatic measurement mapping plus signal strength function provides audio tone and visual indication of received signal strength (Opt. MAP)
  • LTE™ FDD and TDD Base Station (eNB) Transmitter RF measurements (Opt. 28)
  • Signal Classification and Survey
  • EMC/EMI pre-compliance and troubleshooting (Opt. 32)

Applications

• Wideband radar and pulsed RF signals
• Frequency agile communications
• Broadband satellite and microwave backhaul links
• Education
• Long Term Evolution (LTE), Cellular
• EMC/EMI pre-compliance and troubleshooting