HP 8753E
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RF Vector
Network Analyzer
30 kHz to 3 or 6 GHz
Fast and powerfu
the HP 8753E is
perfectly adapted
superior, efficient
measurements
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The world’s most popular
network analyzer — now 300% faster
Superb speed, accuracy,
and productivity features
The HP 8753E extends the
performance of the industrystandard HP 8753D with an
impressive 300% speed
improvement in measurement
sweep, data transfer,
Impressive 300% speed
improvement in measurement
sweep, data transfer,
instrument-state recall and
time-domain analysis.
An unbeatable
solution
The high-performance HP 8753E
RF network analyzer brings
together an unbeatable combination of speed, performance
and ease-of-use features to solve
your measurement needs,
whether on the production floor
or in R&D. With an integrated
S-parameter test set that covers
30 kHz to 3 or 6 GHz, up to
110 dB of dynamic range, and
both frequency and power sweeps,
the HP 8753E accurately and
quickly characterizes the linear
and nonlinear behavior of active
and passive components.
instrument-state recall and
time-domain analysis. Interface
and code compatability with the
HP 8753D makes the transition
to the HP 8753E fast and easy.
Superb measurement accuracy
as well as numerous calibration
techniques for coaxial, on-wafer
and in-fixture measurements
enhance product yields. In
addition, the world’s most
popular RF network analyzer
now offers four-parameter
display, VGA output, numerous
productivity enhancements, and
a smaller size.
Highly evolved
for test success
The HP 8753E vector network
analyzer provides both
magnitude and phase
information, as well as, gain
compression, group delay and
time domain measurements —
all with vector error correction
to minimize measurement
uncertainty.
Enhancements for
manufacturing include
more calibration techniques,
four-parameter display,
VGA output for enhanced
visability, and smaller size.
A winning combination of
performance and productivity features
Feature highlights
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Faster measurement speed
Exceptional sweep speed, register
recall and data-transfer rate.
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Faster tuning/testing
Simultaneously display all four
S-parameters while tuning devices.
Quickly record or print all four
S-parameters for record keeping.
Enhance your
product throughput
Improved measurement accuracy
for noninsertable devices with
adapter-removal calibration.
Maximize measurement speed
with fast sweep list mode.
Flexible fit
to your environment
VGA output for enhanced viewing.
Compact size to maximize space
and ease transport.
Reduced support effort
Make firmware upgrades quickly
using built-in disk drive.
Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility with
HP 8753D makes leveraging your
investment in software fast and
easy.
Built-in data storage
Convenient storage of instrument
states, calibrations, data, and test
sequences via floppy disk and
nonvolatile memory.
Test sequencing
Internally configure and automate
measurements easily and quickly
with keystroke recording.
Measurement speed improvements for the HP 8753E
Function 8753D 8753E % increase in speed
201 points, two-port calibration .510 .145 352
Recall 201 points .740 .138 536
Time domain 201 points .350 .046 760
Trace dump 201 points .061 .021 290
List frequency 201 points .795 .104 764
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NEW!
Powerful analysis
of RF components
Fast, accurate measurements are essential in today’s fast paced, competitive environment whether
you are in manufacturing or R&D. When you have an HP 8753E vector network analyzer, you have
the best measurement tool available for characterizing the performance of high-frequency components
and devices. The HP 8753E provides a host of capabilities including magnitude, phase, and group-delay
measurements. It also performs power sweeps, providing gain compression and AM-to-PM conversion
measurements, shows impedances on a Smith chart, and with the time-domain option, shows the
distance from the test port to an impedance mismatch or cable fault. So whether your application is
manufacturing components for the wireless market or designing a state-of-the-art RF filter or amplifier,
the HP 8753E helps you maximize your measurement throughput and designs.
Enhanced
performance
Faster measurement speed
• New CPU provides exceptional sweep
speed, register recall and data transfer rate.
•10 Hz to 6 KHz IF filters optimize speed
versus accuracy trade-offs.
Four-parameter display
• Increase your tuning speed with simultaneous display of all four S-parameters.
Now it’s easy and convenient to record and
print all four S-parameters.
VGA output
• Add an external monitor to enhance the
visibility of displayed data.
Smaller size
• More compact and lighter, the HP 8753E
maximizes test-station space and is easier
to move.
Backwards compatible with HP 8753D
• Easy transition from previous model with
compatible HP-IB and front-panel features.
Greater productivity
• Improve the measurement accuracy of
noninsertable devices using the new
adapter-removal calibration technique.
• Reduce measurement time by selecting
swept list mode. Choose frequency ranges
with independent IF bandwidths and power
levels.
• Touchstone
Flash memory
• Use the built-in disk drive to quickly and
easily upgrade firmware, and reduce
support efforts.
©
-compatible S2P data format.
Standard features
provide solid value
Built-in disk drive
• Allows convenient storage of instrument
states, data, and test sequences.
Nonvolatile memory
• Allows internal storage of calibration data,
as well as up to 31 instrument states.
Wide dynamic range
• 110 dB dynamic range (30 kHz to 3 GHz)
and 105 dB dynamic range (3 GHz to 6
GHz).
TRL*/LRM* calibration
• Allows convenient calibration for in-fixture
environments such as microstrip.
Serial, parallel and HP-IB interfaces
• Supports modern printers and plotters.
Make direct color or black-and-white
hardcopies of data.
Test sequencing
• Internally configure and automate
measurements with an enhanced form of
keystroke recording.
Real-time clock
• Convenient time-stamping of data printouts
Powerful options customize
your measurements
Extended frequency coverage
• Option 006 for characterizing components
to 6 GHz.
Time-domain analysis
• Locate and resolve discontinuities in your
test device or fixture versus distance. Gain
more insight into the behavior of your device
by displaying the step response or by gating
to remove unwanted responses such as
connector mismatch. Quickly and
accurately locate cable faults or resolve
multiple discontinuities.
Harmonic measurement capability
• Swept second and third harmonic levels
can be displayed directly or relative to the
fundamental carrier (dBc) by using the
harmonic-measurement capability. Measure
amplifier harmonics as low as –40 dBc with
a simple press of a button.
Configuration flexibility
• Use a dedicated HP test set or delete the
built-in test set with Option 011.
and files.
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Superb speed and performance
The HP 8753E provides quick,
high-performance measurements for a broad range of
integrated and discrete devices
such as filters, duplexers,
amplifiers, mixers, modulators,
cables and antennas. These
measurement capabilities are
ideally suited for today’s R&D
and high volume manufacturers
in the RF communication,
aerospace/defense and
consumer electronics industries.
1-Hz frequency resolution
allows accurate crystal filter
measurements of both passband
transmission response and
group delay.
Filter measurements
High resolution, a stable source
and wide-dynamic-range receivers
are essential for transmission
and reflection measurements of
narrowband devices such as
resonators, filters and duplexers.
The HP 8753E synthesized
source provides 1-Hz resolution
with uncompromising
measurement speed, while the
sensitive tuned receivers provide
up to 110 dB of dynamic range.
Optimize the measurement
dynamic range with the 10-Hz
bandwith IF filter or choose the
new 6-kHz
measure
IF filter for maximum
ment speed.
Minimize adjustment time with
marker functions that provide
multiple marker values simultaneously and give on-screen
information about your device’s
3-dB point, passband ripple,
and maximum or minimum
value. The marker-tracking
function provides fast, updated
magnitude and frequency
information during tuning of
your device.
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SAW device measurements
Completely characterize surface
acoustic wave (SAW) devices
with high-resolution return loss
insertion loss, and group-delay
measurements. Measure
passband ripple with 0.001-dB
magnitude resolution and
0.01-picosecond delay resolution.
Gain additional insight about
your device’s unwanted time
responses, such as RF leakage
and triple transit, with optional
time-domain capabilty. Apply
gating (a time-domain selective
filter) to the main lobe response
and view your device’s response
independently of matching
networks and connectors.
Simultaneously view
both the frequency response
and the time response
of your SAW device.
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AUTO SCALE
SCALE/DIV
REFERENCE
POSITION
REFERENCE
VALUE
MARKER
REFERENCE
ELECTRICAL
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OFFSET
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Simultaneously view
all four S-parameters
for faster tuning/testing
Four-parameter display
Designed for speed, the HP 8753E
measures and displays all four
S-parameters simultaneously1.
Real-time tuning of your RF
communication duplexers and
isolators couldn’t be easier.
Display any combination of
reflection and transmission
parameters with magnitude,
phase, group delay, Smith chart,
polar, SWR, or time-domain
formats. Easy-to-use softkeys
let you access measurement
functions quickly and view
results in overlay or split-screen
format on a crisp, LCD color
display with one, two or four
graticules. For enhanced
visibility, use the VGAcompatible output to drive
larger
1. Available Q298
external monitors.
Amplifier measurements
Measuring an amplifier that
has a high gain and high reverse
isolation with a low input signal
requires a test system with
wide dynamic range and high
sensitivity. The HP 8753E is
ideal for these measurements
with up to –100 dBm sensitivity,
110 dB of dynamic range, 0.05 dB
dynamic accuracy, and the
ability to set the test-port power
level exactly over a 95 dB range.
In addition, the use of swept
power to simplify gaincompression measurements and
power-meter calibration for
improving source power level as
well as receiver-measurement
accuracy, make the HP 8753E
one of the most productive tools
available.
Mixer measurements
Traditionally, vector network
analyzers have operated over a
single stimulus-and-response
frequency range, and therefore,
could not test the transmission
characteristics of mixers. The
HP 8753E has the ability to
offset its receiver frequency
from that of its own internally
synthesized source. This enables
you to test the transmission
characteristics of mixers
(conversion loss, amplitude,
phase tracking and group delay)
by stimulating a device over one
frequency range and viewing its
response over another.
HP 8753E mixer
measurement menu
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HP 8753E productivity features
speed and simplify your measurements
User-defined
frequency testing
Speed up your testing by
measuring your device at only
selected frequencies. You can
specify up to 30 arbitrary CW
frequencies or frequency sweep
segments at which to test your
device. Set test-port power levels
and IF bandwidth independentl
for each segment. Reduce test
time and increase measurement
throughput by optimizing each
segment to your specific test
requirements.
Example of
“fast swept list”
output.
Transfer data
to your CAE program
Store ASCII disk files in
conformance to the CITIFILE
standard with the HP 8753E.
Touchstone©-compatible (S2P)
format provides component dat
files describing frequencydependent two-port S-parameters.
Measured data can then be read
by electronic design automation
applications, including HP EEso
design software, and used for
circuit simulation. These programs can also access data
directly via HP-IB.
Increase throughput
using automated
pass/fail testing.
Pass/fail testing
Reduce test times by letting the
network analyzer determine if
measurement results are within
user-defined limits. You can
easily choose any combination
of single-point, horizontal or
sloping line limits from the
front panel. Pass/fail is indicated
visually from the display, audibly
with a beep, over HP-IB, or from
a BNC rear-panel TTL output.
Use rear-panel TTL output as
an input for automated part
handlers.
Automate repetitive tasks,
without a computer
In test-sequencing mode, you
make the measurement once
and the network analyzer
records the keystrokes. Complex
measurements can be stored in
a sequence and recalled rapidly
and consistently with the touch
of a button. Since a sequence is
created by the same front-panel
keystrokes used during manual
operation, no additional programming expertise is required.
Display user prompts for tuning
and other manual adjustments
or make go/no-go decisions
during sequence execution. You
can even control other HP-IB
instruments, or use the parallel
port to control part handlers.
Start
Set stimulus
& test limits
Connect
device
Measure
parameters
Passed
test limits
Plot data
& limits
Y
Next
device
Stop
Test sequence
flowchart
?
?
N
Tune
device
Change frequencies
and remain calibrated
Save time and avoid recalibration
when changing frequencies by
using the interpolative errorcorrection mode. Perform a
broadband calibration with up
to 1,601 points and then adjust
your frequency span or number
of measurement points for the
particular device under test.
The HP 8753E will automatically
recalculate the error terms
based on the new values of
either parameter. This allows
you the flexibility of investigating
your device’s performance over
any portion of the calibrated
frequency range while maintaining full display resolution.
RF limiter
Achieve solid, reliable network
analyzer protection for high power
applications. The HP 11930
RF limiter externally attaches
to one or both ports of
analyzer, in essence creating
the
an
external fuse. This optional
accessory provides an inexpensive, quick method of ensuring
against potential high-power
transients from external devices
that can cause hardware failures.
Reduce measurement
calibration time with
HP’s RF ECal.
RF electronic
calibration
Achieve fast, consistent, highaccuracy calibrations automatically with HP’s optional
RF electronic
calibration
(RF ECal) products. The easyto-use PC/Windowsbased
solution provides 30 kHz to 6 GHz
electronic calibration, which
reduces user calibration errors,
connector damage and maintenance. HP ECal provides
accurate calibrations for noninsertable and mixed connector
devices for improved product
yeilds. Designed for high-volume
manufacturing environments,
HP RF ECal provides the means
to optimize your production
measurement environment.
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service and support
Applications and test
expertise at your service
Our Systems and Service
Division is ready to help you
with test process analysis,
consulting, and software
development. Take advantage of
HP’s wide variety of technical
training offered around the
world, even customized to fit
your specific needs.
24-hour telephone support
HP offers telephone technical
and applications support 24
hours a day in most countries
served by HP.
One-year warranty
Hewlett-Packard offers a
standard one-year, return-toHP warranty with the HP
8753E.
At a low, fixed cost, you can
order support options to extend
warranty or cover periodic
calibrations.
Test fixtures
For more information on test
fixtures, ask for HP literature
number 5091-4254E, or contact:
Inter-Continental Microwave
1515 Wyatt Drive
Santa Clara, Ca 95054, USA
Telephone: (408) 727-1596
HP on line
For more information about
Hewlett-Packard test and
measurement products,
applications, services, and for a
current sales office listing, visit
our web site,
http://www.hp.com/go/tmdir.
Quality and reliability
by design
The HP 8753E is manufactured
in ISO 9002-registered facilities
in concurrence with HP’s
commitment to quality.
The reliability of the HP 8753E
has been proven through
extensive environmental testin
of shock, vibration, and extrem
temperature cycling. Further
improvements in reliability
have been realized by applying
improvements gained from
careful analysis of the entire H
RF network analyzer family.
HP literature Number
HP 8753E
Technical Specifications 5966-0054E
HP 8753E
Configuration Guide 5966-0055E
Data Subject to Change
Copyright © 1997
Hewlett-Packard Company
Printed in U.S.A. 12/97
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