Agilent 53310A
Modulation Domain Analyzer
Dynamic Frequency and Jitter
Analysis at the Touch of a Button
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The Easy Way to Analyze Modulation and Jitter
Autoscale
Saves time by automatically selecting setup parameters to display your signals at the touch of a button.
Fast update rate
Fast update rate provides immediate visual results
as changes occur in your signal or measurement
setup.
Jitter and modulation analysis
Complete, automated analysis to characterize the
modulation or jitter on any signal at the touch of
a button.
Hardcopy
Output measurement data and instrument state
can be sent to any GPIB graphics printer for
archiving.
Frequency trigger
Measurements are simplified with advanced triggering capabilities, allowing you to trigger on frequency or time interval measurements.
Softkey-driven menu structure
Intuitive, scope-like user interface allows you to
quickly move from measurements to answers.
Portability
Compact size and light weight make the Agilent
Technologies 53310A Modulaltion Domain
Analyzer ideal for moving from workbench to
workbench, or city to city.
Programmability
Full GPIB programmability, through the implementation of Standard Commands for Programmable
Instruments (SCPI) saves time and makes automatic
testing easier.
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New Capabilities Simplify Analysis of Complex
Signals
Many of today’s measurement techniques simply
don’t provide adequate information to make
demanding design decisions. Those that do are
often cumbersome, difficult to use, or expensive.
Not so with Agilent’s 53310A Modulation Domain
Analyzer—providing a view of frequency or timeinterval measurements over time. This new way of
seeing data is intuitive, allowing you to view your
jitter or modulation directly. In much the same
way the oscilloscope provides insight into the
dynamics of changing voltage, the 53310A provides
insight into changes in frequency or time-interval
measurements.
Setting up the analyzer is easy. Autoscale provides
a one-button solution. At the press of a button
your signal is analyzed and the proper instrument
settings are selected. Unique triggering capabilities
allow you to trigger directly on your modulation or
periodic jitter.
Characterization of modulation and jitter is easier
with built-in analysis. Parameters like peak-to-peak
deviation, carrier frequency, and modulation rate
are all easily and automatically displayed. Jitter
analysis is simplified with automated analysis of
mean, standard deviation, and probability.
The Agilent 53310A provides all this and more, at
a price you can afford.
Shorten your design cycles through improved signal
analysis
A wide range of applications benefit from
Modulation Domain analysis. New ways to view
and analyze problems lead to streamlined solutions, saving you time in characterization and
redesign.
Jitter characterization of digital communications
systems, disk and tape drives, and mechanical systems improves dramatically.
The Modulation Domain makes it simple to study
frequency drift in a range of electronic equipment,
from lasers to oscillators.
You can easily characterize the frequency-hopping
performance of an agile transmitter, or measure a
cellular phone switching from cell to cell.
Discover a new way to analyze your signals and
solve tough design challenges—a new perspective
that helps you solve elusive problems and fine-tune
your product performance. With the 53310A, you
can sharpen your competitive edge.
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The Modulation Domain is the
missing piece of the puzzle.
The oscilloscope shows you
amplitude (voltage) versus time
in the Time Domain. The spectrum analyzer shows you
amplitude versus frequency in
the Frequency Domain. And
now, the Modulation Domain
analyzer shows you frequency
or time-interval measurements
versus time in the Modulation
Domain. The whole picture
helps you improve your designs
and bring them in on schedule.
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Understand Frequency Dynamics with Ease
Modulation Domain analysis does for frequency
what an oscilloscope does for voltage. The digitizing oscilloscope adds the time dimension to voltmeter readings, giving you a picture of the voltage
variations over time. Changes in voltage are easily
captured and analyzed. Measurements like V p-p,
overshoot, and undershoot are simplified since
voltage can be displayed as a function of time.
This same simplicity is available now for frequency
measurements. The 53310A adds the time dimension to frequency counter results. Now you can
view frequency variations directly. Traditionally difficult measurements on modulated carriers are
now simple.
View frequency modulation directly
More than simply plotting individual measurement
results over time, the 53310A Modulation Domain
Analyzer makes frequency measurements continuously. Without the dead-time between measurements traditionally found in frequency counters or
time-interval analyzers, this proves to be a better
way to analyze your signals.
This measurement technique not only maintains
the relationship between measurements, it also
ensures no loss of measurement information
between samples. All of this is done with a single
capture, thus eliminating the need for cumbersome, time-consuming profiling methods common
with today’s frequency counters.
Single touch measurements
Measurements like peak-to-peak deviation, carrier
frequency, and modulation rate are made easily
with the touch of a button. Portions of the modulated carrier can be singled out quickly for detailed
analysis.
In effect, the 53310A becomes a “frequency oscilloscope”—measuring carrier frequencies up to 2.5 GHz
as fast as every 1 µ s. Through continuous sampling
of the carrier frequency, modulation can be recovered and carrier dynamics analyzed.
Much like an oscilloscope can trigger on a rising or
falling voltage through a specified voltage threshold, the 53310A has the unique capability to trigger
on a rising or falling frequency transition. Timing
generators or sync signals are no longer necessary
to trigger your measurement. This ability to trigger
on frequency transitions greatly simplifies the
analysis of VCOs, PLLs, and servo systems.
Frequency changes and timing are fundamental characteristics of music. Similarly, these attributes are critical
in many electronic systems and can easily be analyzed in
the Modulation Domain.
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Imagine the time you can save with the 53310A by
characterizing your designs directly and easily.
Whether you are measuring a modulated signal or
agile carrier, now your design decisions can be
based on knowledge. You will no longer have to
infer performance based on indirect measurement
techniques that are commonly error prone and difficult to calibrate.
New views of frequency stability
With performance requirements increasing, better
designs must be delivered faster and at a lower
cost than ever before. As the error budgets of these
designs shrink, the need for stability increases.
Whether it’s a simple design requiring a stable
microprocessor clock, or sophisticated electronics
controlling expensive equipment, quick access to
new insight is required. Aggregate measures of jitter offered by conventional test techniques are
often inadequate. They provide a convenient measure but allow little insight into the solution.
As with deliberately modulated carrier frequencies, analysis of “stability” is done easily in the
Modulation Domain. No longer limited to the magnitude of the jitter, the Agilent 53310A allows you
to analyze the instability—breaking it into its periodic and random components.
The frequency modulation on this carrier is viewed and
analyzed easily in the Modulation Domain.
Fast histogramming makes statistical characterization
easy.
Frequency vs
Time Display
Fast Histogram
of Frequency
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