Keysight N9030A PXA User Manual

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Contents

1. PXA Signal Analyzer

Definitions and Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Conditions Required to Meet Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Frequency and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Frequency Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Band. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Precision Frequency Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Frequency Readout Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Frequency Counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Frequency Span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Sweep Time and Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Gated Sweep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Number of Frequency Sweep Points (buckets). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Nominal Measurement Time vs. Span [Plot]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Resolution Bandwidth (RBW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Analysis Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Preselector Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Video Bandwidth (VBW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Amplitude Accuracy and Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Measurement Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Maximum Safe Input Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Display Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Marker Readout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Frequency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Nominal Frequency Response Band 0 [Plot]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

IF Frequency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

IF Phase Linearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Absolute Amplitude Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Input Attenuation Switching Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

RF Input VSWR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Nominal VSWR Low Band [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Nominal VSWR, above 3.5 GHz [Plot]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Resolution Bandwidth Switching Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Reference Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Display Scale Fidelity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Available Detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Gain Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

1 dB Gain Compression Point (Two-tone). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Displayed Average Noise Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) (without Noise Floor Extension). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Displayed Average Noise Level with Noise Floor Extension Improvement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Displayed Average Noise Level with Noise Floor Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Spurious Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Second Harmonic Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Contents

Third Order Intermodulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Nominal TOI vs. Input Frequency and Tone Separation [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Nominal Dynamic Range [Plot]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Nominal Dynamic Range vs. Offset Frequency vs. RBW [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Phase Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Nominal Phase Noise of Different LO Optimizations [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Nominal Phase Noise at Different Center Frequencies [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Phase Noise Effects, Ext Ref vs. Loop BW [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Power Suite Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Occupied Bandwidth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Adjacent Channel Power (ACP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Multi-Carrier Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Power Statistics CCDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Burst Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

TOI (Third Order Intermodulation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Harmonic Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Inputs/Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

2. I/Q Analyzer

Specifications Affected by I/Q Analyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Clipping-to-Noise Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Data Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Time Record Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

ADC Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

3. VXA Vector Signal Analysis Application

Vector Signal Analysis Performance (N9064A-1FP/1TP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Center Frequency Tuning Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Frequency Span, Maximum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

FFT Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Frequency Points per Span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

FFT Window Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

ADC overload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Amplitude Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Absolute Amplitude Accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Contents

Amplitude Linearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

IF Flatness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Third Order Intermodulation distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Residual Responses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Image Responses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

LO Related Spurious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Other Spurious. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Nominal Noise Density [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Analog Modulation Analysis (N9064A-1FP/1TP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

AM Demodulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

PM Demodulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

FM Demodulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Flexible Digital Modulation Analysis (N9064A-2FP/2TP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Residual EVM for MSK Modulation Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Residual EVM for Video Modulation Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

WLAN Modulation Analysis (N9064A-3FP/3TP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

IEEE 802.11a/g OFDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

IEEE 802.11b/g DSSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

4. Option ALV - Log Video Out

Specifications Affected by Log Video Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Other Log Video Out Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Aux IF Out Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Fast Log Video Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Nominal Output Voltage (Open Circuit) versus Input Level [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

5. Option B25 - 25 MHz Analysis Bandwidth

Specifications Affected by Analysis Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Other Analysis Bandwidth Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

IF Spurious Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

IF Frequency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

IF Phase Linearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Nominal Phase Linearity [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Data Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Time Record Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

ADC Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

6. Option B40 - 40 MHz Analysis Bandwidth

Specifications Affected by Analysis Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Other Analysis Bandwidth Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

SFDR (Spurious-Free Dynamic Range). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

IF Frequency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

IF Phase Linearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Nominal Phase Linearity [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

EVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Data Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Time Record Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

ADC Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Capture Time [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

7. Option B85/B1X - 85/160 MHz Analysis Bandwidth

Specifications Affected by Analysis Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Other Analysis Bandwidth Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

SFDR (Spurious-Free Dynamic Range) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

IF Residual Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

IF Frequency Response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

IF Phase Linearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

EVM measurement floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Data Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Time Record Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

ADC Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

8. Option BBA - Analog Baseband IQ (BBIQ) Inputs

Frequency and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Amplitude Accuracy and Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Nominal Channel Match, 50Ω Input, Single-Ended input mode, 0.25V Range [Plot]. . . . . . . . . . 153

Nominal Phase Match, 50Ω Input, Single-Ended input mode, 0.25V Range [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Application Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Capture Length vs. Span, 2-channel with 89600 VSA, I+jQ Mode [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Inputs/Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

9. Option CR3 - Connector Rear, 2nd IF Output

Specifications Affected by Connector Rear, 2nd IF Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Other Connector Rear, 2nd IF Output Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Aux IF Out Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Second IF Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

10. Option CRP - Connector Rear, Arbitrary IF Output

Specifications Affected by Connector Rear, Arbitrary IF Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Other Connector Rear, Arbitrary IF Output Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Aux IF Out Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Arbitrary IF Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

11. Option EA3 - Electronic Attenuator, 3.6 GHz

Specifications Affected by Electronic Attenuator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Other Electronic Attenuator Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Range (Frequency and Attenuation). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Distortions and Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Frequency Response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Absolute Amplitude Accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

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Electronic Attenuator Switching Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

12. Option EMC - Precompliance EMI Features

Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Frequency Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

EMI Resolution Bandwidths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

EMI Average Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Quasi-Peak Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

RMS Average Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

13. Option ESC - External Source Control

General Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Frequency Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Power Sweep Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Measurement Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Supported External Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

14. Option EXM - External Mixing

Specifications Affected by External mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Other External Mixing Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Connection Port EXT MIXER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Mixer Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

IF Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

LO Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

15. Option LNP - Low Noise Path Specifications

Specifications Affected by Low Noise Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Displayed Average Noise Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

DANL (with Noise Floor Extension) Improvement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Frequency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Second Harmonic Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Dynamic Range Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Nominal Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

16. Option MPB - Microwave Preselector Bypass

Specifications Affected by Microwave Preselector Bypass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Other Microwave Preselector Bypass Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Frequency Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Additional Spurious Responses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

17. Options P03, P08, P13, P26, P43, P44 and P50 - Preamplifiers

Specifications Affected by Preamp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Other Preamp Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Noise figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

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1 dB Gain Compression Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) (without Noise Floor Extension) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

Frequency Response — Preamp On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

RF Input VSWR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Nominal VSWR — Preamp On Low Band (Plot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223

Nominal VSWR — Preamp, Above 3.5 GHz [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

Second Harmonic Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Third Order Intermodulation Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Nominal Dynamic Range at 1 GHz, Preamp On (Plot). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

18. Options RT1, RT2 - Real-time Spectrum Analyzer (RTSA)

Real-time Spectrum Analyzer Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

General Frequency Domain Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Density View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Spectrogram View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Power vs. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Frequency Mask Trigger (FMT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

19. Option TES/MTU:

TES - TOI Enhanced Specifications MTU - Multi-touch User Interface (S/N prefix ≥ US/MY/SG5449)

Specifications Affected by TOI Enhanced Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Third Order Intermodulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

Nominal TOI vs. Input Frequency and Tone Separation [Plot] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237

Analog Demodulation Measurement Application - Frequency Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Conditions required to meet specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

FM Measurement Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

FM Deviation Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

FM Rate Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Carrier Frequency Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Analog Demodulation Measurement Application - Frequency Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Post-Demod Distortion Residual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Post-Demod Distortion Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

AM Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Residual FM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Analog Demodulation Measurement Application - Amplitude Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Conditions required to meet specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

AM Measurement Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

AM Depth Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Flatness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

AM Rate Accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Analog Demodulation Measurement Application - Amplitude Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Post-Demod Distortion Residual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Post-Demod Distortion Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

FM Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Residual AM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Analog Demodulation Measurement Application - Phase Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Contents

Conditions required to meet specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

PM Measurement Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

PM Deviation Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

PM Rate Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Carrier Frequency Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Analog Demodulation Measurement Application - Phase Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Post-Demod Distortion Residual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Post-Demod Distortion Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

AM Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Residual PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

20. Option YAV - Y-Axis Video Output

Specifications Affected by Y-Axis Video Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Other Y-Axis Video Output Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

General Port Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Screen Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Continuity and Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Log Video Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Linear Video (AM Demod) Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

21. 5G NR Measurement Application

MTU - Multi-touch User Interface (S/N prefix ≥ US/MY/SG5449)

Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Occupied Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Frequency Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Frequency Range: FR1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Frequency Range: FR2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

22. Analog Demodulation Measurement Application

RF Carrier Frequency and Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Carrier Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Maximum Information

Bandwidth (Info BW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Capture Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Post-Demodulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Maximum Audio

Frequency Span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Frequency Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Conditions required to meet specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

FM Deviation Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Contents

FM Rate Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Carrier Frequency Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Carrier Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Frequency Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Post-Demod Distortion Residual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Post-Demod Distortion Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Distortion Measurement Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

AM Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Residual FM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Hum & Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275

Amplitude Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Conditions required to meet specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

AM Depth Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

AM Rate Accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Carrier Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Amplitude Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Post-Demod Distortion Residual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Post-Demod Distortion Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Distortion Measurement Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

FM Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Residual AM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Phase Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Conditions required to meet specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

PM Deviation Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

PM Rate Accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Carrier Frequency Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Carrier Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Phase Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Post-Demod Distortion Residual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Post-Demod Distortion Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Distortion Measurement Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

AM Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Analog Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

FM Stereo/Radio Data System (RDS) Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

FM Stereo Modulation Analysis Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

23. Noise Figure Measurement Application

General Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Noise Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Noise Figure Uncertainty Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Uncertainty versus Calibration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Nominal Noise Figure Uncertainty versus Calibration Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289

Nominal Instrument Noise Figure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Nominal Instrument Input VSWR, DC Coupled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

24. Phase Noise Measurement Application

General Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Contents

Maximum Carrier Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Measurement Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Measurement Accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Offset Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Amplitude Repeatability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Nominal Phase Noise at Different Center Frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

25. Pulse Measurement Software

General Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Maximum Carrier Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Hardware Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Software Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

26. 1xEV-DO Measurement Application

Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Channel Pow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Occupied Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Power vs. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Spectrum Emission Mask and Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

QPSK EVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Code Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Modulation Accuracy (Composite Rho) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

In-Band Frequency Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Alternative Frequency Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

27. 802.16 OFDMA Measurement Application

Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Occupied Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

In-Band Frequency Range for Warranted Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

28. Bluetooth Measurement Application

Basic Rate Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Output Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Modulation Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Initial Carrier Frequency Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Carrier Frequency Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Low Energy Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Output Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Contents

Modulation Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Initial Carrier Frequency Tolerance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Carrier Frequency Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

LE In-band Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

EDR Relative Transmit Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

EDR Modulation Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

EDR Carrier Frequency Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

EDR In-band Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330

Bluetooth Basic Rate and Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Bluetooth Low Energy System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

29. cdma2000 Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Adjacent Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Power Statistics CCDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Occupied Bandwidth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Code Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

QPSK EVM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Modulation Accuracy (Composite Rho) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .341

30. CMMB Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Channel Power with Shoulder Attenuation View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .344

Power Statistics CCDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Modulation Analysis Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347

Modulation Analysis Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .348

CMMB Modulation Analysis Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

31. Digital Cable TV Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Power Statistics CCDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

DVB-C 64QAM EVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .355

32. DTMB Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Contents

Channel Power with Shoulder Attenuation View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

16QAM EVM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

33. DVB-T/H with T2 Measurement Application

Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Channel Power with Shoulder Attenuation View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Spurious Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

DVB-T 64QAM EVM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

DVB-T2 256QAM EVM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

34. GSM/EDGE Measurement Application

Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

EDGE Error Vector Magnitude

(EVM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Power vs. Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

EDGE Power vs. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Power Ramp Relative Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Phase and Frequency Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Output RF Spectrum (ORFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Frequency Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

In-Band Frequency Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

35. iDEN/WiDEN/MotoTalk Measurement Application

Frequency and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Amplitude Accuracy and Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Dynamic Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Application Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Parameter Setups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

iDEN Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

iDEN Signal Demod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

MotoTalk Signal Demod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

36. ISDB-T Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Channel Power with Shoulder Attenuation View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Modulation Analysis Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Contents

Modulation Analysis Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392

ISDB-T Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

ISDB-Tmm Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

37. LTE Measurement Application

Supported Air Interface Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Transmit On/Off Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Adjacent Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Occupied Bandwidth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .405

Operating Band, FDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Operating Band, TDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

38. LTE/LTE-A Measurement Application

Supported Air Interface Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .408

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Power Statistics CCDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Transmit On/Off Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Adjacent Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Occupied Bandwidth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

C-V2X Modulation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424

C-V2X Operating Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

NB-IoT Operating Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

LTE FDD Operating Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424

LTE TDD Operating Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

39. Multi-Standard Radio Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Power Statistics CCDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Occupied Bandwidth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Conformance EVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .430

40. TD-SCDMA Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Power vs. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Contents

Transmit Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Single Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Occupied Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Code Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Modulation Accuracy (Composite EVM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

41. W-CDMA Measurement Application

Conformance with 3GPP TS 25.141 Base Station Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Adjacent Channel Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Occupied Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Spurious Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Code Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

QPSK EVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Modulation Accuracy (Composite EVM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Power Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

In-Band Frequency Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

42. WLAN Measurement Application

Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Channel Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Power Statistics CCDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Occupied Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Power vs. Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Spectrum Emission Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Spurious Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

64QAM EVM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

1024QAM EVM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

CCK 11Mbps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

In-Band Frequency Range for Warranted Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

43. Version-Dependent Backdated Specifications

Specifications Affected by Versions of Instrument Hardware or Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

DANL Specifications with NFE on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL)

(with Noise Floor Extension) Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

DANL Specifications with NFE on and Option LNP enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

DANL (with Noise Floor Extension) Improvement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Contents

Keysight X-Series Signal Analyzer N9030A

Specification Guide

1 PXA Signal Analyzer

This chapter contains the specifications for the core signal analyzer. The specifications and characteristics for the measurement applications and options are covered in the chapters that follow.

PXA Signal Analyzer Definitions and Requirements

Definitions and Requirements

This book contains signal analyzer specifications and supplemental information. The distinction among specifications, typical performance, and nominal values are described as follows.

Definitions

— Specifications describe the performance of parameters covered by the

product warranty (temperature = 0 to 55°C temperature range" or "Full range", unless otherwise noted).

— 95th percentile values indicate the breadth of the population (2) of

performance tolerances expected to be met in 95% of the cases with a 95 confidence, for any ambient temperature in the range of 20 to 30°C. In addition to the statistical observations of a sample of instruments, these values include the effects of the uncertainties of external calibration references. These values are not warranted. These values are updated occasionally if a significant change in the statistically observed behavior of production instruments is observed.

also referred to as "Full

— Typical describes additional product performance information that is not

covered by the product warranty. It is performance beyond specification that 80 of the units exhibit with a 95 confidence level over the temperature range 20 to 30°C. Typical performance does not include measurement uncertainty.

— Nominal values indicate expected performance, or describe product

performance that is useful in the application of the product, but is not covered by the product warranty.

Conditions Required to Meet Specifications

The following conditions must be met for the analyzer to meet its specifications.

— The analyzer is within its calibration cycle. See the General section of this

chapter.

— Under auto couple control, except that Auto Sweep Time Rules = Accy.

— For signal frequencies < 10 MHz, DC coupling applied.

— Any analyzer that has been stored at a temperature range inside the

allowed storage range but outside the allowed operating range must be stored at an ambient temperature within the allowed operating range for at least two hours before being turned on.

1. For earlier instruments (S/N <MY49430337/SG49430006/US49230450), the operating temperature ranges from 5 to 50°C

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— The analyzer has been turned on at least 30 minutes with Auto Align set to

Normal, or if Auto Align is set to Off or Partial, alignments must have been run recently enough to prevent an Alert message. If the Alert condition is changed from “Time and Temperature” to one of the disabled duration choices, the analyzer may fail to meet specifications without informing the user.

Certification

Keysight Technologies certifies that this product met its published specifications at the time of shipment from the factory. Keysight Technologies further certifies that its calibration measurements are traceable to the International System of Units (SI) via national metrology institutes (www.keysight.com/find/NMI) that are signatories to the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement.

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PXA Signal Analyzer Frequency and Time

Frequency and Time

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Frequency Range

Maximum Frequency

Option 503 3.6 GHz

Option 508 8.4 GHz

Option 513 13.6 GHz

Option 526 26.5 GHz

Option 543 43 GHz

Option 544 44 GHz

Option 550 50 GHz

Preamp Option P03 3.6 GHz

Preamp Option P08 8.4 GHz

Preamp Option P13 13.6 GHz

Preamp Option P26 26.5 GHz

Preamp Option P43 43 GHz

Preamp Option P44 44 GHz

Preamp Option P50 50 GHz

Minimum Frequency

Preamp

AC Coupled

DC Coupled

Off 10 MHz 3 Hz

On 10 MHz 9 kHz

Band Harmonic

LO Multiple (N

Mixing Mode

) Band Overlaps

0 (3 Hz to 3.6 GHz)

1 1 Options 503, 508, 513, 526, 543,

544, 550

1 (3.5 to 8.4 GHz) 1 1 Options 508, 513, 526, 543, 544,

550

2 (8.3 to 13.6 GHz) 1 2 Options 513, 526, 543, 544, 550

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

3 (13.5 to 17.1 GHz) 2 2 Options 526,543, 544, 550

4 (17.0 to 26.5 GHz) 2 4 Options 526, 543, 544, 550

5 (26.4 to 34.5 GHz) 2 4 Options 543, 544, 550

6 (34.4 to 50 GHz) 4 8 Options 543, 544, 550

a. AC Coupled only applicable to Freq Options 503, 508, 513, and 526. b. N is the LO multiplication factor. For negative mixing modes (as indicated by the “” in the “Harmonic Mixing

Mode” column), the desired 1st LO harmonic is higher than the tuned frequency by the 1st IF.

c. In the band overlap regions, for example, 3.5 to 3.6 GHz, the analyzer may use either band for measurements, in

this example Band 0 or Band 1. The analyzer gives preference to the band with the better overall specifications (which is the lower numbered band for all frequencies below 26 GHz), but will choose the other band if doing so is necessary to achieve a sweep having minimum band crossings. For example, with CF = 3.58 GHz, with a span of 40 MHz or less, the analyzer uses Band 0, because the stop frequency is 3.6 GHz or less, allowing a span without band crossings in the preferred band. If the span is between 40 and 160 MHz, the analyzer uses Band 1, because the start frequency is above 3.5 GHz, allowing the sweep to be done without a band crossing in Band 1, though the stop frequency is above 3.6 GHz, preventing a Band 0 sweep without band crossing. With a span greater than 160 MHz, a band crossing will be required: the analyzer sweeps up to 3.6 GHz in Band 0; then executes a band crossing and continues the sweep in Band 1. Specifications are given separately for each band in the band overlap regions. One of these specifications is for the preferred band, and one for the alternate band. Continuing with the example from the previous paragraph (3.58 GHz), the preferred band is band 0 (indicated as frequencies under 3.6 GHz) and the alternate band is band 1 (3.5 to 8.4 GHz). The specifications for the preferred band are warranted. The specifications for the alternate band are not warranted in the band overlap region, but performance is nominally the same as those warranted specifications in the rest of the band. Again, in this example, consider a signal at 3.58 GHz. If the sweep has been configured so that the signal at 3.58 GHz is measured in Band 1, the analysis behavior is nominally as stated in the Band 1 specification line (3.5 to 8.4 GHz) but is not warranted. If warranted performance is necessary for this signal, the sweep should be reconfigured so that analysis occurs in Band 0. Another way to express this situation in this example Band 0/Band 1 crossing is this: The specifications given in the “Specifications” column which are described as “3.5 to 8.4 GHz” represent nominal performance from 3.5 to 3.6 GHz, and warranted performance from 3.6 to 8.4 GHz.

d. Band 0 is extendable (set “Extend Low Band” to On) to 3.7 GHz instead of 3.6 GHz in instruments

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Precision Frequency Reference

Accuracy [(time since last adjustment 

aging rate) + temperature stability + calibration accuracy

a]b

Temperature Stability

8

Nominally linear

10

5  10

20 to 30C

Full temperature range

Aging Rate

1.5  10

5  10

Total Aging

7

1 Year

2 Years

Settability

Warm-up and Retrace

300 s after turn on

900 s after turn on

Achievable Initial Calibration Accuracy

1  10

1.5  10

2  10

4  10

9

8

7

Nominal

1  10

7

of final frequency

8

of final frequency

Standby power to reference oscillator Not supplied

Residual FM

(Center Frequency = 1 GHz

0.25 Hz  N (nominal)

10 Hz RBW, 10 Hz VBW)

/day (nominal)

p-p in 20 ms

a. Calibration accuracy depends on how accurately the frequency standard was adjusted to 10 MHz. If the adjust-

ment procedure is followed, the calibration accuracy is given by the specification “Achievable Initial Calibration

Accuracy.” b. The specification applies after the analyzer has been powered on for four hours. c. Narrow temperature range performance is nominally linear with temperature. For example, for

25±3º C, the stability would be only three-fifths as large as the warranted 25±5º C, thus ±0.9 10

8

d. Standby mode does not apply power to the oscillator. Therefore warm-up applies every time the power is

turned on. The warm-up reference is one hour after turning the power on. Retracing also occurs every time

warm-up occurs. The effect of retracing is included within the “Achievable Initial Calibration Accuracy” term of

the Accuracy equation.

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e. The achievable calibration accuracy at the beginning of the calibration cycle includes these effects:

1) Temperature difference between the calibration environment and the use environment

2) Orientation relative to the gravitation field changing between the calibration environment and the use envi-

ronment

3) Retrace effects in both the calibration environment and the use environment due to turning the instrument

power off.

4) Settability

f. N is the LO multiplication factor.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Frequency Readout Accuracy (marker freq  freq ref accy +

+ 2 Hz +

)

Example for EMC

0.10span + 5  RBW

0.5  horizontal resolution

Single detector only

0.0032 (nominal)

a. The warranted performance is only the sum of all errors under autocoupled conditions. Under non-autocoupled

conditions, the frequency readout accuracy will nominally meet the specification equation, except for conditions in which the RBW term dominates, as explained in examples below. The nominal RBW contribution to frequency readout accuracy is 2 of RBW for RBWs from 1 Hz to 390 kHz, 4 of RBW from 430 kHz through 3 MHz (the widest autocoupled RBW), and 30 of RBW for the (manually selected) 4, 5, 6 and 8 MHz RBWs. First example: a 120 MHz span, with autocoupled RBW. The autocoupled ratio of span to RBW is 106:1, so the RBW selected is 1.1 MHz. The 5  RBW term contributes only 55 kHz to the total frequency readout accuracy, compared to 120 kHz for the 0.10  span term, for a total of 175 kHz. Second example: a 20 MHz span, with a 4 MHz RBW. The specification equation does not apply because the Span: RBW ratio is not autocoupled. If the equation did apply, it would allow 20 kHz of error (0.10) due to the span and 200 kHz error (5) due to the RBW. For this non-autocoupled RBW, the RBW error is nominally 30, or 1200 kHz.

b. Horizontal resolution is due to the marker reading out one of the trace points. The points are spaced by

span/(Npts – 1), where Npts is the number of sweep points. For example, with the factory preset value of 1001 sweep points, the horizontal resolution is span/1000. However, there is an exception: When both the detector mode is “normal” and the span > 0.25  (Npts – 1)  RBW, peaks can occur only in even-numbered points, so the effective horizontal resolution becomes doubled, or span/500 for the factory preset case. When the RBW is autocoupled and there are 1001 sweep points, that exception occurs only for spans > 750 MHz

c. Specifications apply to traces in most cases, but there are exceptions. Specifications always apply to the peak

detector. Specifications apply when only one detector is in use and all active traces are set to Clear Write. Specifications also apply when only one detector is in use in all active traces and the "Restart" key has been pressed since any change from the use of multiple detectors to a single detector. In other cases, such as when multiple simultaneous detectors are in use, additional errors of 0.5, 1.0 or 1.5 sweep points will occur in some detectors, depending on the combination of detectors in use.

d. In most cases, the frequency readout accuracy of the analyzer can be exceptionally good. As an example, Key-

sight has characterized the accuracy of a span commonly used for Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing using a source frequency locked to the analyzer. Ideally, this sweep would include EMC bands C and D and thus sweep from 30 to 1000 MHz. Ideally, the analysis bandwidth would be 120 kHz at 6 dB, and the spacing of the points would be half of this (60 kHz). With a start frequency of 30 MHz and a stop frequency of 1000.2 MHz and a total of 16168 points, the spacing of points is ideal. The detector used was the Peak detector. The accuracy of frequency readout of all the points tested in this span was with 0.0032 of the span. A perfect analyzer with this many points would have an accuracy of 0.0031 of span. Thus, even with this large number of display points, the errors in excess of the bucket quantization limitation were negligible.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Frequency Counter

See note

Count Accuracy (marker freq  freq ref accy. + 0.100 Hz)

Delta Count Accuracy (delta freq.  freq ref accy. + 0.141 Hz)

Resolution 0.001 Hz

a. Instrument conditions: RBW = 1 kHz, gate time = auto (100 ms), S/N  50 dB, frequency = 1 GHz b. If the signal being measured is locked to the same frequency reference as the analyzer, the specified count

accuracy is 0.100 Hz under the test conditions of footnote a. This error is a noisiness of the result. It will increase with noisy sources, wider RBWs, lower S/N ratios, and source frequencies > 1 GHz.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Frequency Span

Range

Option 503 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 3.6 GHz

Option 508 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 8.4 GHz

Option 513 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 13.6 GHz

Option 526 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 26.5 GHz

Option 543 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 43 GHz

Option 544 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 44 GHz

Option 550 0 Hz, 10 Hz to 50 GHz

Resolution 2 Hz

Span Accuracy

Swept

FFT

(0.1  span + horizontal resolution

)

a. Horizontal resolution is due to the marker reading out one of the sweep points. The points are spaced by

span/(Npts  1), where Npts is the number of sweep points. For example, with the factory preset value of 1001

sweep points, the horizontal resolution is span/1000. However, there is an exception: When both the detector

mode is “normal” and the span > 0.25  (Npts  1)  RBW, peaks can occur only in even-numbered points, so

the effective horizontal resolution becomes doubled, or span/500 for the factory preset case. When the RBW is

auto coupled and there are 1001 sweep points, that exception occurs only for spans > 750 MHz.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Sweep Time and Trigger

Sweep Time Range Span = 0 Hz Span ≥ 10 Hz

1 μs to 6000 s 1 ms to 4000 s

Sweep Time Accuracy Span ≥ 10 Hz, swept Span ≥ 10 Hz, FFT Span = 0 Hz

±0.01% (nominal) ±40% (nominal) ±0.01% (nominal)

Sweep Trigger Free Run, Line, Video, External 1,

External 2, RF Burst, Periodic Timer

Delayed Trigger

Range

Span ≥ 10 Hz −150 ms to 500 ms

Span = 0 Hz

−10 s to +500 ms

Resolution 0.1 μs

a. Delayed trigger is available with line, video, RF burst and external triggers. b. Prior to A.19.28 software, zero span trigger delay was limited to -150 ms to 500 ms.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Triggers Additional information on some of the triggers and

gate sources

Video Independent of Display Scaling and Reference Level

Minimum settable level 170 dBm Useful range limited by noise

Maximum usable level

Highest allowed mixer level

+ 2 dB (nominal)

Detector and Sweep Type relationships

Sweep Type = Swept

Detector = Normal, Peak, Sample or Negative Peak

Triggers on the signal before detection, which is similar to the displayed signal

Detector = Average Triggers on the signal before detection, but with a

single-pole filter added to give similar smoothing to that of the average detector

Sweep Type = FFT Triggers on the signal envelope in a bandwidth

wider than the FFT width

RF Burst

Level Range

40 to 10 dBm plus attenuation (nominal)

Level Accuracy

Absolute 2 dB + Absolute Amplitude Accuracy (nominal)

Relative 2 dB (nominal)

Bandwidth (10 dB)

Most cases

>80 MHz (nominal)

Start Freq < 300 MHz, RF Burst Level Type = Absolute

Sweep Type = Swept 16 MHz (nominal)

Sweep Type = FFT

FFT Width > 25 MHz; FFT Width 8 to 25 MHz; FFT Width < 8 MHz

>80 MHz (nominal) 30 MHz (nominal) 16 MHz (nominal)

Frequency Limitations If the start or center frequency is too close to zero,

LO feedthrough can degrade or prevent triggering. How close is too close depends on the bandwidth listed above.

External Triggers See “Trigger Inputs” on page 88

TV Triggers Triggers on the leading edge of the selected sync

pulse of standardized TV signals.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Amplitude Requirements –65 dBm minimum video carrier power at the input

mixer, nominal

Compatible Standards NTSC-M,

NTSC-Japan, NTSC-4.43, PAL-M, PAL-N, PAL-N Combination, PAL-B/-D/-G/-H/-I. PAL-60, SECAM-L

Field Selection Entire Frame, Field

One, Field Two

Line Selection 1 to 525, or 1 to 625,

standard dependent

a. The highest allowed mixer level depends on the IF Gain. It is nominally –10 dBm for Preamp Off and IF Gain =

Low.

b. Noise will limit trigger level range at high frequencies, such as above 15 GHz. c. Include RF Burst Level Type = Relative.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Gated Sweep

Gate Methods Gated LO

Gated Video Gated FFT

Span Range Any span

Gate Delay Range 0 to 100.0 s

Gate Delay Settability 4 digits, 100 ns

Gate Delay Jitter 33.3 ns p-p (nominal)

Gate Length Range

(Except Method = FFT)

Gated FFT and Gated Video Frequency and Amplitude Errors

1 s to 5.0 s Gate length for the FFT method is fixed at

1.83/RBW, with nominally 2% tolerance.

Nominally no additional error for gated measurements when the Gate Delay is greater than the MIN FAST setting

Gated LO Frequency Errors

Gate 10 s Nominally no additional error when the Gate

Delay is greater than the MIN FAST setting

1.0 s  Gate 10 s Nominal error given by 100 ns N (Span/ST)  (SpanPosition  ST / GateLength); see footnote

Gated LO Amplitude Errors Nominally no additional error when the Gate

Delay is greater than the MIN FAST setting

Phase Noise Effects Gated LO method overrides the loop

configuration to force single loop in place of dual loop.

Gate Sources External 1

Pos or neg edge triggered

External 2 Line RF Burst Periodic

a. ST is sweep time; SpanPosition is the location of the on-screen signal, 0 being the left edge of the screen and 1

being the right edge. N is the harmonic mixing number.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Number of Frequency Sweep Points (buckets)

Factory preset 1001

Range 1 to 100,001 Zero and non-zero spans

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Nominal Measurement Time vs. Span [Plot]

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Resolution Bandwidth (RBW)

Range (3.01 dB bandwidth) Standard

1 Hz to 8 MHz Bandwidths above 3 MHz are 4, 5, 6, and 8 MHz. Bandwidths 1 Hz to 3 MHz are spaced at 10 spacing using the E24 series (24 per decade): 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6,

1.8, 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.6, 3.9,

4.3, 4.7, 5.1, 5.6, 6.2, 6.8, 7.5, 8.2, 9.1 in each decade.

With Option B85 and Option RBE

10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 MHz, in Spectrum Analyzer mode and zero span.

With Option B1X and Option RBE

10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, and 133 MHz, in Spectrum Analyzer mode and zero span.

Power bandwidth accuracy

RBW Range CF Range

1 Hz to 100 kHz All 0.5 (0.022 dB)

110 kHz to 1.0 MHz <3.6 GHz 1.0 (0.044 dB)

1.1 to 2.0 MHz <3.6 GHz 0.07 dB (nominal)

2.2 to 3 MHz <3.6 GHz 0 to0.2dB (nominal)

4 to 8 MHz <3.6 GHz 0 to0.4dB (nominal)

Noise BW to RBW ratio

Accuracy (3.01 dB bandwidth)

1.056 2 (nominal)

1 Hz to 1.3 MHz RBW 2 (nominal)

1.5 MHz to 3 MHz RBW

CF  3.6 GHz CF > 3.6 GHz

7 (nominal) 8 (nominal)

4 MHz to 8 MHz RBW

CF  3.6 GHz CF > 3.6 GHz

15 (nominal) 20 (nominal)

Selectivity (60 dB/3 dB) 4.1:1 (nominal)

a. Option RBE enables wider bandwidth filters in zero span in the Signal Analyzer mode. Available detectors are

Peak+ and Average. VBW filtering is disabled. Minimum sweep time is the greater of 200 μS or 200ns/pt. The filter shape is approximately square. Support for Average detector was first added in SW Version A.23.05.

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b. The noise marker, band power marker, channel power and ACP all compute their results using the power band-

width of the RBW used for the measurement. Power bandwidth accuracy is the power uncertainty in the results of these measurements due only to bandwidth-related errors. (The analyzer knows this power bandwidth for each RBW with greater accuracy than the RBW width itself, and can therefore achieve lower errors.) The warranted specifications shown apply to the Gaussian RBW filters used in swept and zero span analysis. There are four different kinds of filters used in the spectrum analyzer: Swept Gaussian, Swept Flattop, FFT Gaussian and FFT Flattop. While the warranted performance only applies to the swept Gaussian filters, because only they are kept under statistical process control, the other filters nominally have the same performance.

c. The ratio of the noise bandwidth (also known as the power bandwidth) to the RBW has the nominal value and

tolerance shown. The RBW can also be annotated by its noise bandwidth instead of this 3 dB bandwidth. The accuracy of this annotated value is similar to that shown in the power bandwidth accuracy specification.

d. Resolution Bandwidth Accuracy can be observed at slower sweep times than auto-coupled conditions. Normal

sweep rates cause the shape of the RBW filter displayed on the analyzer screen to widen by nominally 6. This widening declines to 0.6 nominal when the Swp Time Rules key is set to Accuracy instead of Normal. The true bandwidth, which determines the response to impulsive signals and noise-like signals, is not affected by the sweep rate.

Description Specification Supplemental information

Analysis Bandwidth

Standard 10 MHz

With Option B25

25 MHz

With Option B40 40 MHz

With Option B85 85 MHz

With Option B1X

160/140 MHz

a. Analysis bandwidth is the instantaneous bandwidth available about a center frequency over which the input sig-

nal can be digitized for further analysis or processing in the time, frequency, or modulation domain.

b. Instruments with 160 MHz bandwidth will display "N9030A-B1Y Analysis bandwidth Extension, 160 MHz" after

pressing: System, Show, System on the instrument.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Preselector Bandwidth Relevant to many options, such as B1X Wide IF Bandwidth, in

Bands 1 and higher. Nominal.

Mean Bandwidth at CF

Freq option  Freq option > 526

5 GHz 58 MHz 46 MHz

10 GHz 57 MHz 52 MHz

15 GHz 59 MHz 53 MHz

20 GHz 64 MHz 55 MHz

25 GHz 74 MHz 56 MHz

35 GHz 62 MHz

44 GHz 70 MHz

Standard Deviation 9% 7%

–3 dB Bandwidth –7.5% relative to –4 dB bandwidth, nominal

a. The preselector can have a significant passband ripple. To avoid ambiguous results, the –4 dB bandwidth is

characterized.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Video Bandwidth (VBW)

Range Same as Resolution Bandwidth range

plus wide-open VBW (labeled 50 MHz)

Accuracy 6 (nominal)

in swept mode and zero span

a. For FFT processing, the selected VBW is used to determine a number of averages for FFT results. That number is

chosen to give roughly equivalent display smoothing to VBW filtering in a swept measurement. For example, if VBW = 0.1  RBW, four FFTs are averaged to generate one result.

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Amplitude Accuracy and Range

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Measurement Range

Preamp Off Displayed Average Noise Level to +30 dBm

Preamp On

RF (Option 503) Displayed Average Noise Level to +30 dBm

W (Options 508, 513, 526) Displayed Average Noise Level to +24 dBm

mmW (Options 543, 544, 550) Displayed Average Noise Level to +20 dBm

Input Attenuation Range 0 to 70 dB, in 2 dB steps

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Maximum Safe Input Level Applies with or without preamp

(Options P03, P08, P13, P26, P43, P44, P50)

Average Total Power +30 dBm (1 W)

Peak Pulse Power

10 s pulse width, 1 duty cycle,

input attenuation  30 dB)

DC voltage

DC Coupled 0.2 Vdc

AC Coupled 100 Vdc

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Display Range

Log Scale Ten divisions displayed;

Linear Scale Ten divisions

+50 dBm (100 W)

0.1 to 1.0 dB/division in 0.1 dB steps, and 1 to 20 dB/division in 1 dB steps

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Marker Readout

Resolution

Log (decibel) units

Trace Averaging Off, on-screen 0.01 dB

Trace Averaging On or remote 0.001 dB

Linear units resolution 1 of signal level (nominal)

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Frequency Response

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Frequency Response Refer to the footnote for

(Maximum error relative to reference condition (50 MHz)

Mechanical attenuator only Swept operation

Attenuation 10 dB)

Option 543, 544, or 550 (mmW)

Option 503, 508, 513, or 526 (RF/W)

20 to 30CFull range 95th Percentile (2)

Band Overlaps on page 22.

Freq Option 526 only: Modes above 18 GHz

3 Hz to 10 MHz x

10 to 20 MHz

20 to 50 MHz

x 0.46 dB 0.54 dB

x 0.35 dB 0.44 dB

x 0.46 dB 0.54 dB

x 0.35 dB 0.44 dB 0.16 dB

x 0.35 dB 0.44 dB 0.19 dB

50 MHz to 3.6 GHz x 0.35 dB 0.44 dB 0.16 dB

50 MHz to 3.6 GHz

3.6 to 3.7 GHz (Band0) x

3.5 to 5.2 GHz

5.2 to 8.4 GHz

8.3 to 13.6 GHz

x 0.35 dB 0.47 dB 0.15 dB

See note

x 1.5 dB 2.5 dB 0.39 dB

x 1.7 dB 3.5 dB 0.70 dB

x 1.5 dB 2.5 dB 0.39 dB

x 1.5 dB 2.5 dB 0.57 dB

x 2.0 dB 2.7 dB 0.45 dB

x 2.0 dB 2.5 dB 0.54 dB

13.5 to 17.1 GHz

17.0 to 22 GHz

x 2.0 dB 2.7 dB 0.62 dB

x 2.0 dB 2.7 dB 0.64 dB

x 2.0 dB 2.7 dB 0.62 dB

x 2.0 dB 2.8 dB 0.72 dB

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

22.0 to 26.5 GHz

26.4 to 34.5 GHz

34.4 to 50 GHz

x 2.5 dB 3.7 dB 0.82 dB

x 2.5 dB 3.5 dB 0.71 dB

x 2.5 dB 3.5 dB 0.93 dB

x 3.2 dB 4.9 dB 1.24 dB

a. Signal frequencies above 18 GHz are prone to additional response errors due to modes in the Type-N connector

such modes. The effect of these modes with this connector are included within these specifications. b. See the Electronic Attenuator (Option EA3) chapter for Frequency Response using the electronic attenuator. c. For Sweep Type = FFT, add the RF flatness errors of this table to the IF Frequency Response errors. An additional

error source, the error in switching between swept and FFT sweep types, is nominally 0.01 dB and is included

within the “Absolute Amplitude Error” specifications. d. Specifications apply with DC coupling at all frequencies. With AC coupling, specifications apply at frequencies of

50 MHz and higher. Statistical observations at 10 MHz and lower show that most instruments meet the specifica-

tion, but a few percent of instruments can be expected to have errors that, while within the specified limits, are

closer to those limits than the measurement uncertainty guardband, and thus are not warranted. The AC coupling

effect at 20 to 50 MHz is negligible, but not warranted. e. Band 0 is extendable (set “Extend Low Band” to On) to 3.7 GHz instead of 3.6 GHz in instruments

with frequency option 508, 513 or 526 and serial number is equal with or greater than the follow-

ing: US54490126, MY54490690, or SG54490127. Band 0 can also be extendable in earlier instru-

ments with firmware of version A.16.13 or later and a field adjustment to perform that extension.

Subject to these conditions, statistical observations show that performance nominally fits within

the same range within the 3.6 to 3.7 GHz frequencies as within the next lower specified frequency

range, but is not warranted.

f. Specifications for frequencies > 3.5 GHz apply for sweep rates 100 MHz/ms. g. Preselector centering applied.

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Nominal Frequency Response Band 0 [Plot]

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

IF Frequency Response

Freq Option 526 only:Modes above 18 GHz

(Demodulation and FFT response relative to the center frequency)

Center Freq (GHz)

(MHz)

Preselector

Max Errord Midwidth Error

(95th Percentile)

Slope (dB/MHz) (95th Percentile)

RMSe (nominal)

Span

3.6 10 0.20 dB 0.12 dB 0.10 0.02 dB

3.6, 26.5 10 On 0.23 dB

3.6, 26.5 10

Off

0.25 dB 0.12 dB 0.10 0.02 dB

26.5, 50 10 On 0.12 dB

, 50 10

Off

0.30 dB ±0.12 dB 0.10 0.024 dB

a. The IF frequency response includes effects due to RF circuits such as input filters, that are a function of RF fre-

quency, in addition to the IF passband effects.

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b. Signal frequencies above 18 GHz are prone to additional response errors due to modes in the Type-N connector

used. Only analyzers with frequency Option 526 that do not also have input connector Option C35 will have these modes.With the use of Type-N to APC 3.5 mm adapter part number 1250-1744, there are nominally six such modes. These modes cause nominally up to 0.35 dB amplitude change, with phase errors of nominally up to 1.2°.

c. This column applies to the instantaneous analysis bandwidth in use. In the Spectrum Analyzer Mode, this would

be the FFT width.

d. The maximum error at an offset (f) from the center of the FFT width is given by the expression

 [Midwidth Error + (f Slope)], but never exceeds Max Error. Here the Midwidth Error is the error at the center frequency for a given FFT span. Usually, the span is no larger than the FFT width in which case the center of the FFT width is the center frequency of the analyzer. When using the Spectrum Analyzer mode with an analyzer span is wider than the FFT width, the span is made up of multiple concatenated FFT results, and thus has multiple centers of FFT widths; in this case the f in the equation is the offset from the nearest center. Performance is nominally three times better at most center frequencies.

e. The “rms” nominal performance is the standard deviation of the response relative to the center frequency, inte-

grated across the span. This performance measure was observed at a center frequency in each harmonic mixing band, which is representative of all center frequencies; it is not the worst case frequency.

f. Option MPB is installed and enabled.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

IF Phase Linearity Deviation from mean phase linearity

Freq Option 526 only:Modes above

18 GHz

Center Freq (GHz)

Span (MHz)

Preselector Peak-to-peak

(nominal)

RMS (nominal)

0.02, 3.6 10 n/a 0.06° 0.012°

3.6, 26.5 10

Off

0.10° 0.022°

3.6 10 On 0.11° 0.024°

a. Signal frequencies above 18 GHz are prone to additional response errors due to modes in the Type-N connector

b. The listed performance is the standard deviation of the phase deviation relative to the mean phase deviation

from a linear phase condition, where the rms is computed across the span shown and over the range of center frequencies shown.

c. Option MPB is installed and enabled.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Absolute Amplitude Accuracy

At 50 MHz

20 to 30C Full temperature range

At all frequencies

20 to 30C Full temperature range

95th Percentile Absolute Amplitude Accuracy

0.24 dB

0.13 dB

(95th percentile)

0.28 dB

(0.24 dB + frequency response) (0.28 dB + frequency response)

0.19 dB

(Wide range of signal levels, RBWs, RLs, etc.,

0.01 to 3.6 GHz, Atten = 10 dB)

Amplitude Reference Accuracy 0.05 dB (nominal)

Preamp On

(0.36 dB + frequency response)

(P03, P08, P13, P26, P43, P44, P50)

a. Absolute amplitude accuracy is the total of all amplitude measurement errors, and applies over the following

subset of settings and conditions: 1 Hz  RBW  1MHz; Input signal 10 to 50 dBm (details below); Input attenuation 10 dB; span < 5 MHz (nominal additional error for span  5 MHz is 0.02 dB); all settings auto-coupled except Swp Time Rules = Accuracy; combinations of low signal level and wide RBW use VBW  30 kHz to reduce noise. When using FFT sweeps, the signal must be at the center frequency. This absolute amplitude accuracy specification includes the sum of the following individual specifications under the conditions listed above: Scale Fidelity, Reference Level Accuracy, Display Scale Switching Uncertainty, Resolution Bandwidth Switching Uncertainty, 50 MHz Amplitude Reference Accuracy, and the accuracy with which the instrument aligns its internal gains to the 50 MHz Amplitude Reference. The only difference between signals within the range above –50 dBm and those signals below that level is the scale fidelity. Our specifications and experience show no difference between signals above and below this level. The only reason our Absolute Amplitude Uncertainty specification does not go below this level is that noise detracts from our ability to verify the performance at all levels with acceptable test times and yields. So the performance is not warranted at lower levels, but we fully expect it to be the same.

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b. Absolute Amplitude Accuracy for a wide range of signal and measurement settings, covers the 95th percentile

proportion with 95 confidence. Here are the details of what is covered and how the computation is made: The wide range of conditions of RBW, signal level, VBW, reference level and display scale are discussed in footnote a. There are 44 quasi-random combinations used, tested at a 50 MHz signal frequency. We compute the 95th percentile proportion with 95 confidence for this set observed over a statistically significant number of instruments. Also, the frequency response relative to the 50 MHz response is characterized by varying the signal across a large number of quasi-random verification frequencies that are chosen to not correspond with the frequency response adjustment frequencies. We again compute the 95th percentile proportion with 95 confidence for this set observed over a statistically significant number of instruments. We also compute the 95th percentile accuracy of tracing the calibration of the 50 MHz absolute amplitude accuracy to a national standards organization. We also compute the 95th percentile accuracy of tracing the calibration of the relative frequency response to a national standards organization. We take the root-sum-square of these four independent Gaussian parameters. To that rss we add the environmental effects of temperature variations across the 20 to 30C range. These computations and measurements are made with the mechanical attenuator only in circuit, set to the reference state of 10 dB. A similar process is used for computing the result when using the electronic attenuator under a wide range of settings: all even settings from 4 through 24 dB inclusive, with the mechanical attenuator set to 10 dB. The 95th percentile result was 0.21 dB.

c. Same settings as footnote a, except that the signal level at the preamp input is 40 to 80 dBm. Total power at

preamp (dBm) = total power at input (dBm) minus input attenuation (dB). This specification applies for signal frequencies above 100 kHz.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Input Attenuation Switching Uncertainty Refer to the footnote for

Band Overlaps on page 22

(Relative to 10 dB (reference setting))

50 MHz (reference frequency), preamp off

Attenuation 12 to 40 dB 0.14 dB 0.03 dB (typical)

Attenuation 2 to 8 dB, or >40 dB 0.18 dB 0.05 dB (typical)

Attenuation 0 dB 0.05 dB (nominal)

Attenuation > 2 dB, preamp off

3 Hz to 3.6 GHz 0.3 dB (nominal)

3.5 to 8.4 GHz 0.5 dB (nominal)

8.3 to 13.6 GHz 0.7 dB (nominal)

13.5 to 26.5 GHz 0.7 dB (nominal)

26.5 to 50.0 GHz 1.0 dB (nominal)

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

RF Input VSWR

(at tuned frequency, DC coupled)

mmW (Option 543, 544, or 550)

RF/W (Option 503, 508, 513, or 526)

10 dB atten, 50 MHz (ref condition) x 1.07:1 (nominal)

10 dB atten, 50 MHz (ref condition)

0 dB atten, 0.01 to 3.6 GHz x

x 1.025:1 (nominal)

x <2.2:1 (nominal)

95th Percentile

Band 0 (0.01 to 3.6 GHz, 10 dB atten) x 1.139

Band 0 (0.01 to 3.6 GHz, 10 dB atten)

x 1.134

Band 1 (3.5 to 8.4 GHz, 10 dB atten) x 1.290

Band 1 (3.5 to 8.4 GHz, 10 dB atten)

x 1.152

Band 2 (8.3 to 13.6 GHz, 10 dB atten) x 1.388

Band 2 (8.3 to 13.6 GHz, 10 dB atten)

x 1.178

Band 3 (13.5 to 17.1 GHz, 10 dB atten) x 1.403

Band 3 (13.5 to 17.1 GHz, 10 dB atten)

x 1.204

Band 4 (17.0 to 26.5 GHz, 10 dB atten) x 1.475

Band 4 (17.0 to 26.5 GHz, 10 dB atten)

Band 5 (26.4 to 34.5 GHz, 10 dB atten)

Band 6 (34.4 to 50 GHz, 10 dB atten)

x 1.331

x 1.321

x 1.378

Nominal VSWR vs. Freq, 10 dB See plots following

Atten > 10 dB Similar to atten = 10 dB

RF Calibrator (e.g. 50 MHz) is On Open input

Alignments running Open input for some, unless "All but

RF" is selected

Preselector centering Open input

a. X-Series analyzers have a reflection coefficient that is excellently modeled with a Rayleigh probability distribu-

tion. Keysight recommends using the methods outlined in Application Note 1449-3 and companion Average Power Sensor Measurement Uncertainty Calculator to compute mismatch uncertainty. Use this 95th percentile VSWR information and the Rayleigh model (Case C or E in the application note) with that process.

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Nominal VSWR Low Band [Plot]

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Nominal VSWR, above 3.5 GHz [Plot]

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Resolution Bandwidth Switching Uncertainty Relative to reference BW of 30 kHz,

1.0 Hz to 1.5 MHz RBW 0.03 dB

verified in low band

1.6 MHz to 2.7 MHz RBW 0.05 dB

3.0 MHz RBW 0.10 dB

Manually selected wide RBWs: 4, 5, 6, 8 MHz 0.30 dB

a. RBW switching uncertainty is verified at 50 MHz. It is consistent for all measurements made without the prese-

lector, thus in Band 0 and also in higher bands with the Preselector Bypass option. In preselected bands, the slope of the preselector passband can interact with the RBW shape to make an apparent additional RBW switching uncertainty of nominally ±0.05 dB/MHz times the RBW.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Reference Level

Range

Log Units 170 to +30 dBm, in 0.01 dB steps

Linear Units 707 pV to 7.07 V, with 0.01 dB resolution (0.11)

Accuracy

0 dB

a. Because reference level affects only the display, not the measurement, it causes no additional error in measure-

ment results from trace data or markers.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Display Scale Switching Uncertainty

Switching between Linear and Log

Log Scale Switching

0 dB

a. Because Log/Lin and Log Scale Switching affect only the display, not the measurement, they cause no addi-

tional error in measurement results from trace data or markers.

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320dB110

SN 3dB+20dB–

+log=

Amplitude Accuracy and Range

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Display Scale Fidelity

Absolute Log-Linear Fidelity

(Relative to the reference condition: 25 dBm input through 10 dB attenuation, thus 35 dBm at the input mixer)

Input mixer level

Linearity

Typ ical

18 dBm  ML  10 dBm 0.10 dB 0.04 dB

ML < 18 dBm 0.07 dB 0.02 dB

Relative Fidelity

Applies for mixer levelc range from 10 to 80 dBm, mechanical attenuator only, preamp off, and dither on.

Sum of the following terms: Nominal

high level term

instability term

slope term

prefilter term

Up to 0.015 dB

0.0019 dBrms

From equation

Up to 0.005 dB

a. Supplemental information: The amplitude detection linearity specification applies at all levels below 10 dBm at

the input mixer; however, noise will reduce the accuracy of low level measurements. The amplitude error due to noise is determined by the signal-to-noise ratio, S/N. If the S/N is large (20 dB or better), the amplitude error due to noise can be estimated from the equation below, given for the 3-sigma (three standard deviations) level.

The errors due to S/N ratio can be further reduced by averaging results. For large S/N (20 dB or better), the 3-sigma level can be reduced proportional to the square root of the number of averages taken.

b. The scale fidelity is warranted with ADC dither set to Medium. Dither increases the noise level by nominally only

0.28 dB for the most sensitive case (preamp Off, best DANL frequencies). With dither Off, scale fidelity for low level signals, around 60 dBm or lower, will nominally degrade by 0.2 dB. Dither High will give exceptional linear relative scale fidelity, but increase DANL by 0.63 dB instead of 0.28 dB.

c. Mixer level = Input Level  Input Attenuation d. The relative fidelity is the error in the measured difference between two signal levels. It is so small in many cases

that it cannot be verified without being dominated by measurement uncertainty of the verification. Because of this verification difficulty, this specification gives nominal performance, based on numbers that are as conservatively determined as those used in warranted specifications. We will consider one example of the use of the error equation to compute the nominal performance. Example: the accuracy of the relative level of a sideband around 60 dBm, with a carrier at 5dBm, using attenuation = 10 dB, RBW = 3 kHz, evaluated with swept analysis. The high level term is evaluated with P1 =

15 dBm and P2 = 70 dBm at the mixer. This gives a maximum error within 0.008 dB. The instability term is 0.0019 dB if the measurement is completed within a minute. The slope term evaluates to 0.022 dB. The pre- filter term applies and evaluates to the limit of 0.005 dB. The sum of all these terms is 0.037 dB.

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e. Errors at high mixer levels will nominally be well within the range of 0.015 dB × {exp[(P1  Pref)/(8.69 dB)] 

exp[(P2  Pref)/(8.69 dB)]} (exp is the natural exponent function, e

). In this expression, P1 and P2 are the pow-

ers of the two signals, in decibel units, whose relative power is being measured. Pref is 10 dBm (10 dBm is the highest power for which linearity is specified). All these levels are referred to the mixer level.

f. The stability of the analyzer gain can be an error term of importance when no settings have changed. These have

been studied carefully in the PXA. One source of instability is the variation in analyzer response with time when fully warmed up in a stable lab environment. This has been observed to be well modeled as a random walk process, where the difference in two measurements spaced by time t is given by a  sqrt(t), where a is

0.0019 dBrms per root minute. The other source of instability is updated alignments from running full or partial alignments in the background or invoking an alignment. Invoked alignments (Align Now, All) have a standard deviation of 0.0018 dB, and performing these will restart the random walk behavior. Partial alignments (Auto Align set to "Partial") have a standard deviation that is, coincidentally, also 0.0018 dBrms, and only occurs once every ten minutes. The standard deviation from full background alignment (Auto Align set to "Normal") is 0.015 dBrms; with these alignments on, there is no additional random walk behavior. (Keysight recommends setting alignments (Auto Align) to Normal in order to make the best measurements over long periods of time or in environments without very high temperature stability. For short term measurements in highly stable environments, setting alignments to Partial can give the best stability. Setting Alignments to Off is not recommended where stability matters.)

g. Slope error will nominally be well within the range of 0.0004 × (P1  P2). P1 and P2 are defined in footnote e. h. A small additional error is possible. In FFT sweeps, this error is possible for spans under 4.01 kHz. For non-FFT

measurements, it is possible for RBWs of 3.9 kHz or less. The error is well within the range of ±0.0021 × (P1 P2) subject to a maximum of ±0.005 dB. (The maximum dominates for all but very small differences.) P1 and P2 are defined in footnote e.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Available Detectors Normal, Peak, Sample, Negative Peak,

Average

Average detector works on RMS, Voltage and Logarithmic scales

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Dynamic Range

Gain Compression

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

1 dB Gain Compression Point (Two-tone)

20 to 40 MHz 3 dBm 4 dBm 0 dBm (typical)

40 to 200 MHz +1 dBm 1 dBm +3 dBm (typical)

200 MHz to 3.6 GHz +3 dBm +2 dBm +5 dBm (typical)

3.6 to 16 GHz +1 dBm 0 dBm +4 dBm (typical)

16 to 26.5 GHz 1 dBm 3 dBm +2 dBm (typical)

26.5 to 50 GHz 0 dBm (nominal)

Clipping (ADC Over-range)

Any signal offset 10 dBm

Signal offset > 5 times IF prefilter bandwidth and IF Gain set to Low

IF Prefilter Bandwidth

abc

Maximum power at mixer

20 to 30C Full range

Low frequency exceptions

+12 dBm (nominal)

Zero Span or Sweep Type = FFT, –3 dB Bandwidth

Swept

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, RBW =

3.9 kHz <4.01 kHz 8.9 kHz

4.3 to 27 kHz <28.81 kHz 79 kHz

30 to 160 kHz <167.4 kHz 303 kHz

180 to 390 kHz <411.9 kHz 966 kHz

430 kHz to 8 MHz <7.99 MHz 10.9 MHz

a. Large signals, even at frequencies not shown on the screen, can cause the analyzer to incorrectly measure

on-screen signals because of two-tone gain compression. This specification tells how large an interfering signal must be in order to cause a 1 dB change in an on-screen signal.

b. Specified at 1 kHz RBW with 100 kHz tone spacing. The compression point will nominally equal the specification

for tone spacing greater than 5 times the prefilter bandwidth. At smaller spacings, ADC clipping may occur at a level lower than the 1 dB compression point.

FFT Width = (nominal)

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c. Reference level and off-screen performance: The reference level (RL) behavior differs from some earlier analyz-

ers in a way that makes this analyzer more flexible. In other analyzers, the RL controlled how the measurement was performed as well as how it was displayed. Because the logarithmic amplifier in these analyzers had both range and resolution limitations, this behavior was necessary for optimum measurement accuracy. The logarithmic amplifier in this signal analyzer, however, is implemented digitally such that the range and resolution greatly exceed other instrument limitations. Because of this, the analyzer can make measurements largely independent of the setting of the RL without compromising accuracy. Because the RL becomes a display function, not a measurement function, a marker can read out results that are off-screen, either above or below, without any change in accuracy. The only exception to the independence of RL and the way in which the measurement is performed is in the input attenuation setting: When the input attenuation is set to auto, the rules for the determination of the input attenuation include dependence on the reference level. Because the input attenuation setting controls the tradeoff between large signal behaviors (third-order intermodulation, compression, and display scale fidelity) and small signal effects (noise), the measurement results can change with RL changes when the input attenuation is set to auto.

d. Mixer power level (dBm) = input power (dBm)  input attenuation (dB). e. The ADC clipping level declines at low frequencies (below 50 MHz) when the LO feedthrough (the signal that

appears at 0 Hz) is within 5 times the prefilter bandwidth (see table) and must be handled by the ADC. For example, with a 300 kHz RBW and prefilter bandwidth at 966 kHz, the clipping level reduces for signal frequencies below 4.83 MHz. For signal frequencies below 2.5 times the prefilter bandwidth, there will be additional reduction due to the presence of the image signal (the signal that appears at the negative of the input signal frequency) at the ADC.

f. This table applies without Option FS1, fast sweep. With Option FS1, this table applies for sweep rates that

are manually chosen to be the same as or slower than "traditional" sweep rates, instead of the much faster sweep rates, such as autocoupled sweep rates, available with FS1. Sweep rate is defined to be span divided by sweep time. If the sweep rate is 1.1 times RBW-squared, the table applies. Otherwise, compute an "effective RBW" = Span / (SweepTime × RBW). To determine the IF Prefilter Bandwidth, look up this effective RBW in the table instead of the actual RBW. For example, for RBW = 3 kHz, Span = 300 kHz, and Sweep time = 42 ms, we compute that Sweep Rate = 7.1 MHz/s, while RBW-squared is 9 MHz/s. So the Sweep Rate is < 1.1 times RBW-squared and the table applies; row 1 shows the IF Prefilter Bandwidth is nominally 8.9 kHz. If the sweep time is 1 ms, then the effective RBW computes to 100 kHz. This would result in an IF Prefilter Bandwidth from the third row, nominally 303 kHz.

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Displayed Average Noise Level

Description Specifications Supplemental

Information

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) (without Noise Floor

Extension)

Input terminated Sample or Average detector Averaging type = Log 0 dB input attenuation

Refer to the footnote for

Band Overlaps on page 22.

IF Gain = High

1 Hz Resolution Bandwidth

mmW with no signal path options

mmW with one or more signal path options

RF/W (Option 503, 508, 513, or 526)

20 to 30CFull range Typical

3 to 10 Hz

10 to 100 Hz

100 Hz to 1 kHz

1 to 9 kHz

9 to 100 kHz

100 kHz to 1 MHz

x x x –100 dBm (nominal)

x x x –125 dBm (nominal)

x x x –130 dBm (nominal)

x x x –145 dBm (nominal)

x x x 146 dBm 146 dBm 151 dBm

x x x 150 dBm 150 dBm 156 dBm

1 to 10 MHz

10 MHz to 1.2 GHz

1.2 to 2.1 GHz

2.1 to 3 GHz

3.0 to 3.6 GHz

3.6 to 3.7

x x x 155 dBm 152 dBm 158 dBm

x x x 154 dBm 152 dBm 155 dBm

x x x 153 dBm 152 dBm 155 dBm

x x x 151 dBm 150 dBm 153 dBm

x x x 151 dBm 149 dBm 153 dBm

See note

3.5 to 4.2 GHz x 147 dBm 146 dBm 150 dBm

3.5 to 4.2 GHz

4.2 to 8.4 GHz

4.2 to 6.6 GHz

6.6 to 8.4 GHz

x 143 dBm 141 dBm 147 dBm

x –145 dBm –143 dBm –148 dBm

x 150 dBm 148 dBm 152 dBm

x 144 dBm 142 dBm 148 dBm

x –146 dBm –144 dBm –149 dBm

x 147 dBm 145 dBm 149 dBm

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Description Specifications Supplemental

Information

6.6 to 8.4 GHz

8.3 to 13.6 GHz

13.5 to 16.9 GHz

13.5 to 14 GHz

14 to 17 GHz

16.9 to 20 GHz

17.0 to 22.5 GHz

20.0 to 26.5 GHz

22.5 to 26.5 GHz

x –149 dBm –147 dBm –151 dBm

x 149 dBm 147 dBm 151 dBm

x 147 dBm 145 dBm 149 dBm

x –149 dBm –147 dBm –151 dBm

x 145 dBm 143 dBm 147 dBm

x 143 dBm 141 dBm 146 dBm

x 145 dBm 143 dBm 148 dBm

x 147 dBm 145 dBm 150 dBm

x 143 dBm 140 dBm 145 dBm

x 141 dBm 139 dBm 146 dBm

x 145 dBm 143 dBm 148 dBm

x 137 dBm 135 dBm 140 dBm

x 139 dBm 137 dBm 143 dBm

x 142 dBm 140 dBm 145 dBm

26.4 to 30 GHz

30 to 34 GHz

33.9 to 37 GHz

37 to 40 GHz

40 to 49 GHz

40 to 46 GHz

46 to 49 GHz

49 to 50 GHz

Additional DANL, IF Gain = Low

x 138 dBm 136 dBm 142 dBm

x 141 dBm 139 dBm 145 dBm

x 138 dBm 135 dBm 142 dBm

x 141 dBm 138 dBm 144 dBm

x 134 dBm 131 dBm 139 dBm

x 137 dBm 133 dBm 142 dBm

x 132 dBm 129 dBm 138 dBm

x 136 dBm 133 dBm 141 dBm

x 130 dBm 126 dBm 135 dBm

x 136 dBm 132 dBm 140 dBm

x 133 dBm 129 dBm 138 dBm

x 128 dBm 124 dBm 133 dBm

x 133 dBm 129 dBm 137 dBm

x x x –164.5 dBm (nominal)

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a. DANL for zero span and swept is measured in a 1 kHz RBW and normalized to the narrowest available RBW,

because the noise figure does not depend on RBW and 1 kHz measurements are faster.

b. Specifications marked with an x in this column apply to analyzers with mmW frequency options (Option 543,

544 or 550) and none of the following options that affect the signal path: MPB, LNP, B85, or B1X.

c. Specifications marked with an x in this column apply to analyzers with mmW frequency options (Option 543,

544 or 550) and one or more of the following options that affect the signal path: MPB, LNP, B85, or B1X.

d. DANL below 10 MHz is affected by phase noise around the LO feedthrough signal. Specifications apply with the

best setting of the Phase Noise Optimization control, which is to choose the “Best Close-in  Noise" for frequencies below about 150 kHz, and “Best Wide Offset  Noise" for frequencies above about 150 kHz.

e. Band 0 is extendable (set “Extend Low Band” to On) to 3.7 GHz instead of 3.6 GHz in instruments

with frequency option 508, 513 or 526 and serial number is equal with or greater than the following: US54490126, MY54490690, or SG54490127. Band 0 can also be extendable in earlier instruments with firmware of version A.16.13 or later and a field adjustment to perform that extension. Subject to these conditions, statistical observations show that performance nominally fits within the same range within the 3.6 to 3.7 GHz frequencies as within the next lower specified frequency range, but is not warranted.

f. Setting the IF Gain to Low is often desirable in order to allow higher power into the mixer without overload, bet-

ter compression and better third-order intermodulation. When the Swept IF Gain is set to Low, either by auto coupling or manual coupling, there is noise added above that specified in this table for the IF Gain = High case. That excess noise appears as an additional noise at the input mixer. This level has sub-decibel dependence on center frequency. To find the total displayed average noise at the mixer for Swept IF Gain = Low, sum the powers of the DANL for IF Gain = High with this additional DANL. To do that summation, compute DANLtotal = 10  log (10(DANLhigh/10) + 10(AdditionalDANL / 10)). In FFT sweeps, the same behavior occurs, except that FFT IF Gain can be set to autorange, where it varies with the input signal level, in addition to forced High and Low settings.

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Description Specifications Supplemental

Information

Displayed Average Noise Level with Noise Floor Extension Improvement

mmW with no signal path options

Most recent improvements

mmW with one or more signal path optionsd 95th Percentile (2

RF/W (Option 503, 508, 513,or 526) Preamp

Off

Band 0, f > 20 MHz

x 9 dB 10 dB

x 10 dB 9 dB

Preamp

Band 1 x 10 dB 9 dB

Band 1

x 9 dB 9 dB

x 10 dB 9 dB

Band 2 x 10 dB 10 dB

Band 2

x 9 dB 8 dB

Band 3 x 9 dB 10 dB

Band 3

x 9 dB 8 dB

x 10 dB 8 dB

Band 4 x 10 dB 8 dB

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

Improvement for CW Signals

Improvement, Pulsed-RF Signals

x 10 dB 9 dB

x 11 dB 9 dB

x 11 dB 8dB

x 12 dB 9 dB

x 11 dB 7 dB

x 12 dB 8 dB

3.5 dB (nominal)

10.8 dB (nominal)

Improvement, Noise-Like Signals 9.1 dB (nominal)

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a. This statement on the improvement in DANL is based on the statistical observations of the error in the effective

noise floor after NFE is applied. That effective noise floor can be a negative or a positive power at any frequency. These 95th percentile values are based on the absolute value of that effective remainder noise power.

b. The specifications shown in this table apply to the instruments with N9030A-NF2 (Noise floor extensions, instru-

ment alignment). The N9030A-NF2 ships standard with all PXAs beginning approximately January 2015. The earlier PXAs that shipped standard with NFE (Noise floor extension, factory calibration) can be upgraded with Option N9030AK-NF2 to achieve performance indicated here. Press System> Show> System to ensure the N9030A-NF2 is licensed. If the N9030A-NF2 is not licensed, then refer to the chapter of Version Dependent Backdated Specifications at the end of this book for the DANL with NFE specifications.

c. Specifications marked with an x in this column apply to analyzers with mmW frequency options (Option 543, 544

or 550) and none of the following options that affect the signal path: MPB, LNP, B85, or B1X.

d. Specifications marked with an x in this column apply to analyzers with mmW frequency options (Option 543, 544

or 550) and one or more of the following options that affect the signal path: MPB, LNP, B85, or B1X.

e. Unlike other 95th percentiles, these table values do not include delta environment effects. NFE is aligned in the

factory at room temperature. For best performance, in an environment that is different from room temperature, such as an equipment rack with other instruments, we recommend running the "Characterize Noise Floor" operation after the first time the analyzer has been installed in the environment, and given an hour to stabilize.

f. DANL of the preamp is specified with a 50 source impedance. Like all amplifiers, the noise varies with the source

impedance. When NFE compensates for the noise with an ideal source impedance, the variation in the remaining noise level with the actual source impedance is greatly multiplied in a decibel sense.

g. NFE does not apply to the low frequency sensitivity. At frequencies below about 0.5 MHz, the sensitivity is domi-

nated by phase noise surrounding the LO feedthrough. The NFE is not designed to improve that performance. At frequencies between 0.5 and 20 MHz the NFE effectiveness increases from nearly none to near its maximum.

h. Improvement in the uncertainty of measurement due to amplitude errors and variance of the results is modestly

improved by using NFE. The nominal improvement shown was evaluated for a 2 dB error with 250 traces averaged. For extreme numbers of averages, the result will be as shown in the "Improvement for Noise-like Signals" and DANL sections of this table.

i. Pulsed-RF signals are usually measured with peak detection. Often, they are also measured with many “max hold”

traces. When the measurement time in each display point is long compared to the reciprocal of the RBW, or the number of traces max held is large, considerable variance reduction occurs in each measurement point. When the variance reduction is large, NFE can be quite effective; when it is small, NFE has low effectiveness. For example, in Band 0 with 100 pulses per trace element, in order to keep the error within 3 dB error 95% of the time, the signal can be 10.8 dB lower with NFE than without NFE.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Displayed Average Noise Level with Noise Floor Extension

mmW with no signal path options

mmW with one or more signal path options

RF/W (Option 503, 508, 513, or 526)

Band 0, f  20 MHz

xxx 163 dBm 174 dBm

95th Percentile (2b

Preamp Off

Preamp On

Band 1 x 162 dBm 174 dBm

Band 1

x 159 dBm 172 dBm

x 160 dBm 172 dBm

Band 2 x 162 dBm 173 dBm

Band 2

x 159 dBm 172 dBm

x 161 dBm 173 dBm

Band 3 x 156 dBm 172 dBm

Band 3

x 159 dBm 173 dBm

Band 3

x 161 dBm 174 dBm

Band 4 x 150 dBm 166 dBm

Band 4

Band 5

Band 6

x 154 dBm 169 dBm

x 158 dBm 171 dBm

x 153 dBm 167 dBm

x 157 dBm 168 dBm

x 144 dBm 158 dBm

x 149 dBm 161 dBm

a. DANL with NFE is unlike DANL without NFE. It is based on the statistical observations of the error in the effective

b. Unlike other 95th percentiles, these table values do not include delta environment effects. NFE is aligned in the

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c. NFE performance can give results below theoretical levels of noise in a termination resistor at room temperature,

about –174 dBm/Hz. this is intentional and usually desirable. NFE is not designed to report the noise at the input of the analyzer; it reports how much more noise is at the input of the analyzer than was present in its alignment. And its alignment includes the noise of a termination at room temperature. So it can often see the added noise below the theoretical noise. Furthermore, DANL is defined with log averaging in a 1 Hz RBW, which is about 2.3 dB lower than the noise density (power averaged) in a 1 Hz noise bandwidth.

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Spurious Responses

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Spurious Responses

(see Band Overlaps on page 22)

Residual Responses

200 kHz to 8.4 GHz (swept) Zero span or FFT or other frequencies



100 dBm

Preamp

Off

100 dBm (nominal)

Image Responses

Tuned Freq (f) Excitation

Mixer Level

Response Response (typical)

Freq

RF/W/

mmW

RF/W/

mmW

10 MHz to 26.5 GHz f+45 MHz 10 dBm 80 dBc 80 dBc 118 dBc 118 dBc

10 MHz to 3.6 GHz f+10245 MHz 10 dBm 80 dBc 80 dBc 112 dBc 112 dBc

10 MHz to 3.6 GHz f+645 MHz 10 dBm 80 dBc 80 dBc 101 dBc 101 dBc

3.5 to 13.6 GHz f+645 MHz 10 dBm

78 dBc

80 dBc 87 dBc 102 dBc

13.5 to 17.1 GHz f+645 MHz 10 dBm 74 dBc 80 dBc 84 dBc 102 dBc

17.0 to 22 GHz f+645 MHz 10 dBm 70 dBc 80 dBc 82 dBc 100 dBc

22 to 26.5 GHz f+645 MHz 10 dBm 68 dBc 80 dBc 79 dBc 97 dBc

26.5 to 34.5 GHz f+645 MHz 30 dBm 60 dBc –70 dBc –84 dBc –94 dBc

34.4 to 44 GHz f+645 MHz 30 dBm 57 dBc –60 dBc –79 dBc –79 dBc

44 to 50 GHz f+645 MHz 30 dBm –65 dBc

(nominal)

Other Spurious Responses

Mixer Level

Response

–75 dBc (nominal)

Carrier Frequency 26.5 GHz

First RF Order

(f  10 MHz from carrier)

10 dBm

80 dBc + 20  log(N

)

Includes IF feedthrough, LO harmonic mixing responses

Higher RF Order

(f  10 MHz from carrier)

40 dBm

80 dBc + 20 

log(Nh)

Includes higher order mixer responses

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Carrier Frequency 26.5 GHz

First RF Order

30 dBm –90 dBc (nominal)

(f  10 MHz from carrier)

Higher RF Order

30 dBm –90 dBc (nominal)

(f  10 MHz from carrier)

LO-Related Spurious Responses (Offset from carrier 200 Hz to 10 MHz)

Line-Related Spurious Responses

10 dBm

68 dBc

log(N

)

+ 20 

72 dBc + 20  log(N (typical)

73 dBc

+ 20  log(Nh)

(nominal)

a. The spurious response specifications only apply with the preamp turned off. When the preamp is turned on,

performance is nominally the same as long as the mixer level is interpreted to be: Mixer Level = Input Level  Input Attenuation  Preamp Gain

b. Input terminated, 0 dB input attenuation. c. Mixer Level = Input Level  Input Attenuation. d. The values in this column are for RF/W PXA (Options 503, 508, 513, or 526) or

mmW PXA (Options 543, 544, or 550) with serial number prefix <MY/SG/US5135.

e. The values in this column are for mmW PXA (Options 543, 544, or 550) with serial number

prefix MY/SG/US5135.

f. We also support the following additional spurious responses specifications from 8 to 12 GHz at 20 to 30º C.

Image responses are warranted to be better than –82 dBc, with 95th percentile performance of –88.3 dBc. LO-related spurious responses are warranted to be better than –83 dBc at 1 to 10 MHz offsets from the carrier, with phase noise optimization set to Best Wide-Offset.

g. With first RF order spurious products, the indicated frequency will change at the same rate as the input, with

higher order, the indicated frequency will change at a rate faster than the input. h. N is the LO multiplication factor. i. RBW=100 Hz. With higher RF order spurious responses, the observed frequency will change at a rate faster

than the input frequency. j. Nominally 40 dBc under large magnetic (0.38 Gauss rms) or vibrational (0.21 g rms) environmental stimuli.

)

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Second Harmonic Distortion

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Second Harmonic Distortion

mmW (Option 543, 544, or 550)

RF/W (Option 503, 508, 513, or 526)

Mixer Level

Distortion

SHI

Distortion (nominal)

Source Frequency

0 to 100 MHz x

0.1 to 1.8 GHz

to 3 GHz

1.75

1.75 to 3 GHz

3 to 6.5 GHz x

6.5 to 10 GHz x

10 to 13.25 GHz x

13.2 to 25 GHz

x –15 dBm –57 dBc +42 dBm

x –15 dBm –60 dBc +45 dBm

x –15 dBm –77 dBc +62 dBm

x –15 dBm –72 dBc +57 dBm

x 15 dBm –77 dBc 62 dBm

x 15 dBm –70 dBc 55 dBm

x 15 dBm –62 dBc  dBm

x 15 dBm 65 dBc +50 dBm

a. Mixer level = Input Level  Input Attenuation b. SHI = second harmonic intercept. The SHI is given by the mixer power in dBm minus the second harmonic distor-

tion level relative to the mixer tone in dBc.

c. Performance >3.6 GHz improves greatly with Option LNP enabled. See “Option LNP - Low Noise Path

Specifications” on page 201.

d. These frequencies are half of the band edge frequencies. See Band Overlaps on page 22.

SHI (nominal)

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Third Order Intermodulation

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Third Order Intermodulation

(Tone separation > 5 times IF Prefilter Bandwidth

Refer to the footnote for

Band Overlaps on page 22.

Refer to footnote "Extrapolated Distortion".

Verification conditionsb)

RF/W/mmW (SN prefix MY/SG/US5312)

mmW Option 543, 544, or 550 (SN prefix MY/SG/US5312)

RF/W Option 503, 508, 513, or 526 (SN prefix MY/SG/US5312)

20 to 30C

Intercept

Intercept (typical)

10 to 150 MHz x

150 to 600 MHz x

600 MHz to 1.1 GHz x

1.1 to 3.6 GHz x

x x +13 dBm +16 dBm

x x +18 dBm +21 dBm

x x +20 dBm +22 dBm

x x +21 dBm +23 dBm

3.5 to 8.4 GHz x +17 dBm +23 dBm

for the

3.6 to 3.7 GHz (Band 0) x

See note

3.5 to 8.4 GHz x +16 dBm +23 dBm

3.5 to 8.4 GHz x +15 dBm +22 dBm

8.3 to 13.6 GHz x +17 dBm +23 dBm

8.3 to 13.6 GHz

x +16 dBm +23 dBm

8.3 to 13.6 GHz x +15 dBm +23 dBm

13.5 to 17.1 GHz x +15 dBm +20 dBm

13.5 to 17.1 GHz

x +13 dBm +17 dBm

13.5 to 17.1 GHz x +11 dBm +17 dBm

17.0 to 26.5 GHzf

17.0 to 26.5 GHz

26.5 to 50 GHz

x +16 dBm +22 dBm

x +13 dBm +20 dBm

x +11 dBm +17 dBm (nominal)

x x +13 dBm (nominal)

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Full temperature range

10 to 150 MHz x x x +12 dBm

150 to 600 MHz x

600 MHz to 1.1 GHz x

1.1 to 3.6 GHz x

x x +17 dBm

x x +18 dBm

x x +19 dBm

3.5 to 8.4 GHz x +14 dBm

3.5 to 8.4 GHz

x x +13 dBm

8.3 to 13.6 GHz x +14 dBm

8.3 to 13.6 GHz

x x +13 dBm

13.5 to 17.1 GHz x +13 dBm

13.5 to 17.1 GHz

17.0 to 26.5 GHzf

17.0 to 26.5 GHz

x x +10 dBm

x +14 dBm

x +10 dBm

x +9 dBm

a. See the IF Prefilter Bandwidth table in the Gain Compression specifications on page 49. When the tone sepa-

ration condition is met, the effect on TOI of the setting of IF Gain is negligible. TOI is verified with IF Gain set to

its best case condition, which is IF Gain = Low. b. TOI is verified with two tones spaced by 100 kHz, each at:

16 dBm at the mixer (10 MHz to 26.5 GHz frequency range)

20 dBm at the mixer (26.5 GHz to 50 GHz frequency range) c. Traditionally, the distortion components from two tones, each at 30 dBm, were given as specifications. When

spectrum analyzers were not as good as they are now, these distortion products were easily measured. As

spectrum analyzers improved, the measurement began to be made at higher levels and extrapolated to the

industry-standard 30 dBm test level. This extrapolation was justified by excellent conformance with the

third-order model, wherein distortion in dBc was given by twice the difference between the test tone level and

the intercept, both given in dBm units. In PXA, we no longer make that extrapolation in this Specifications

Guide.

One reason we don’t extrapolate is that the model does not work as well as it had with higher levels of distortion

in older and less capable analyzers, so that the computation is misleading; distortions at low test levels will be

modestly higher than predicted from the formula. The second reason is that the distortion components are so

small as to be unmeasurable, and thus highly irrelevant, in many cases.

Please note the curvature of the third-order intermodulation line in the 1 GHz graph that follows, which is rep-

resentative of performance below 3.6 GHz. d. Intercept = TOI = third order intercept. The TOI is given by the mixer tone level (in dBm) minus (distortion/2)

where distortion is the relative level of the distortion tones in dBc.

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e. Band 0 is extendable (set “Extend Low Band” to On) to 3.7 GHz instead of 3.6 GHz in instru-

ments with frequency option 508, 513 or 526 and serial number is equal with or greater than

the following: US54490126, MY54490690, or SG54490127. Band 0 can also be extendable in

earlier instruments with firmware of version A.16.13 or later and a field adjustment to perform

that extension. Subject to these conditions, statistical observations show that performance

nominally fits within the same range within the 3.6 to 3.7 GHz frequencies as within the next

lower specified frequency range, but is not warranted.

f. Intercept performance is nominally 3 dB better in this band in those analyzers which have either Option LNP

or Option MPB installed, or both, when these options are not in use.

Nominal TOI vs. Input Frequency and Tone Separation [Plot]

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Nominal Dynamic Range [Plot]

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Nominal Dynamic Range vs. Offset Frequency vs. RBW [Plot]

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Phase Noise

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Phase Noise Noise Sidebands

(Center Frequency = 1 GHz Optimization Internal Reference

Best-case

)

Offset Frequency 20 to 30CFull range

10 Hz

80 dBc/Hz (nominal)

100 Hz 94 dBc/Hz 92 dBc/Hz 100 dBc/Hz (typical)

1 kHz 121 dBc/Hz 118 dBc/Hz 125 dBc/Hz (typical)

10 kHz 129 dBc/Hz 128 dBc/Hz 132 dBc/Hz (typical)

30 kHz 130 dBc/Hz 129 dBc/Hz 132 dBc/Hz (typical)

100 kHz 129 dBc/Hz 128 dBc/Hz 131 dBc/Hz (typical)

1 MHz

10 MHz

145 dBc/Hz 144 dBc/Hz 146 dBc/Hz (typical)

155 dBc/Hz 154 dBc/Hz 158 dBc/Hz (typical)

a. The nominal performance of the phase noise at center frequencies different than the one at which the specifi-

cations apply (1 GHz) depends on the center frequency, band and the offset. For low offset frequencies, offsets well under 100 Hz, the phase noise increases by 20 × log[(f + 0.3225)/1.3225]. For mid-offset frequencies such as 50 kHz, phase noise trends as 20 × log[(f + 5.1225)/6.1225], and also varies chaotically an additional nominally ±2 dB versus the center frequency. For wide offset frequencies, offsets above about 500 kHz, phase noise increases as 20 × log(N). N is the LO Multiple as shown on page 22; f is in GHz units in all these relationships; all increases are in units of decibels.

b. Noise sidebands for lower offset frequencies, for example, 10 kHz, apply with the phase noise optimization

(PhNoise Opt) set to Best Close-in  Noise. Noise sidebands for higher offset frequencies, for example, 1 MHz, as shown apply with the phase noise optimization set to Best Wide-offset  Noise.

c. Specifications are given with the internal frequency reference. The phase noise at offsets below 100 Hz is

impacted or dominated by noise from the reference. Thus, performance with external references will not follow the curves and specifications. When using an external reference with superior phase noise, we recommend setting the external reference phase-locked-loop bandwidth to wide (60 Hz), to take advantage of that superior performance. When using an external reference with inferior phase noise performance, we recommend setting that bandwidth to narrow (15 Hz). In these relationships, inferior and superior phase noise are with respect to –134 dBc/Hz at 30 Hz offset from a 10 MHz reference. Because most reference sources have phase noise behavior that falls off at a rate of 30 dB/decade, this is usually equivalent to –120 dBc/Hz at 10 Hz offset. For more information, see Phase Noise Effects, Ext Ref vs. Loop BW [Plot] on page 70.

d. Nominal phase noise was –75 dBc/Hz for instruments produced before approximately September 1, 2012.

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e. Analyzer-contributed phase noise at the low levels of this offset requires advanced verification techniques

because broadband noise would otherwise cause excessive measurement error. Keysight uses a high level low phase noise CW test signal and sets the input attenuator so that the mixer level will be well above the normal top-of-screen level (-10 dBm) but still well below the 1 dB compression level. This improves dynamic range (carrier to broadband noise ratio) at the expense of amplitude uncertainty due to compression of the phase noise sidebands of the analyzer. (If the mixer level were increased to the "1 dB Gain Compression Point," the compression of a single sideband is specified to be 1 dB or lower. At lower levels, the compression falls off rapidly. The compression of phase noise sidebands is substantially less than the compression of a single-sideband test signal, further reducing the uncertainty of this technique.) Keysight also measures the broadband noise of the analyzer without the CW signal and subtracts its power from the measured phase noise power. The same techniques of overdrive and noise subtraction can be used in measuring a DUT, of course.

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Nominal Phase Noise of Different LO Optimizations [Plot]

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Nominal Phase Noise at Different Center Frequencies [Plot]

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Phase Noise Effects, Ext Ref vs. Loop BW [Plot]

The effect of the Ext Ref Loop BW control (Narrow and Wide) is shown in this graphic. When set to Wide, the noise from the internal circuitry is reduced, but noise in the external reference is subject to being impressed on the LO through the transfer function shown in the smooth curve labeled "Wide." For an excellent reference, this can give lower overall noise. When the Narrow selection is made, the internal noise effect is higher, but external reference noise above 20 Hz is rejected.

The noise curves were measured at 1 GHz center frequency with an excellent reference and excellent RF signal, and is thus a conservative estimate of the residual noise of the PXA circuitry. At that center frequency, the transfer function curves approach 40 dB gain to phase noise at low offset frequencies for a 10 MHz external reference. (This 40 dB is computed as 20  log

10 ^(fC/f

). The measured noise curves will scale with frequency the same way.)

REF

Example: Consider an external reference at 10 MHz with phase noise of 135 dBc/Hz at 20 Hz offset. If the Narrow setting is chosen, the analyzer noise density will be 86 dBc/Hz at 20 Hz offset, the gain to the reference will be 40 dB, giving

95 dBc/Hz contribution. Add these together on a power scale as 10 x log

(–86/10)

(10

+ 10

(–95/10)

) = 85.5 dBc/Hz. If Wide is chosen, the analyzer noise density will be 97 dBc/Hz at 20 Hz offset, the gain to the reference will be 42 dB, giving 93 dBc/Hz contribution. Add those together on a power scale as 10 x log

(–97/10)

(10

+ 10

(–93/10)

) = 91.5 dBc/Hz. "Wide" will give a 6 dB superior result to the Narrow selection.

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Power Suite Measurements

The specifications for this section apply only to instruments with Frequency Option 503, 508, 513, or 526. For instruments with higher frequency options, the performance is nominal only and not subject to any warranted specifications.

The measurement performance is only slightly different between instruments with the lower and higher frequency options. Because the hardware performance of the analyzers is very similar but not identical, you can estimate the nominal performance of the measurements from the specification in this chapter.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Channel Power

Amplitude Accuracy

Case: Radio Std = 3GPP W-CDMA, or IS-95

Absolute Power Accuracy

(20 to 30C, Attenuation = 10 dB)

a. See “Absolute Amplitude Accuracy” on page 41. b. See “Frequency and Time” on page 22. c. Expressed in dB.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Occupied Bandwidth

Frequency Accuracy (Span/1000) (nominal)

0.61 dB

Absolute Amplitude Accuracy Power Bandwidth Accuracy

0.19 dB (95th percentile)

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Adjacent Channel Power (ACP)

Case: Radio Std = None

Accuracy of ACP Ratio (dBc)

Accuracy of ACP Absolute Power (dBm or dBm/Hz)

Accuracy of Carrier Power (dBm), or Carrier Power PSD (dBm/Hz)

Passband Width

Case: Radio Std = 3GPP W-CDMA

Display Scale Fidelity

Absolute Amplitude Accuracy Power Bandwidth Accuracy

3 dB

(ACPR; ACLR)

Minimum power at RF Input 36 dBm (nominal)

ACPR Accuracy

RRC weighted, 3.84 MHz noise bandwidth, method  RBW

Radio Offset Freq

MS (UE) 5 MHz 0.08 dB At ACPR range of 30 to 36 dBc with optimum mixer

level

MS (UE) 10 MHz 0.09 dB At ACPR range of 40 to 46 dBc with optimum mixer

level

BTS 5 MHz 0.20 dB At ACPR range of 42 to 48 dBc with optimum mixer

level

BTS 10 MHz 0.18 dB At ACPR range of 47 to 53 dBc with optimum mixer

level

BTS 5 MHz 0.10 dB

At 48 dBc non-coherent ACPR

Option EP0

Radio Offset Freq

MS (UE) 5 MHz 0.09 dB At ACPR range of 30 to 36 dBc with optimum mixer

level

MS (UE) 10 MHz 0.11 dB At ACPR range of 40 to 46 dBc with optimum mixer

level

BTS 5 MHz 0.25 dB At ACPR range of 42 to 48 dBc with optimum mixer

level

BTS 10 MHz 0.25 dB At ACPR range of 47 to 53 dBc with optimum mixer

level

BTS 5 MHz 0.12 dB

At 48 dBc non-coherent ACPR

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Dynamic Range RRC weighted, 3.84 MHz noise

bandwidth

Noise Correction

Offset Freq

Method

ACLR (typical)

Optimum MLr (Nominal)

Off 5 MHz Filtered IBW 82.5 dB 8 dBm

Off 5 MHz Fast 81 dB 8 dBm

Off 10 MHz Filtered IBW 87 dB 4 dBm

On 5 MHz Filtered IBW 83.5 dB 8 dBm

On 5 MHz Filtered IBW

88 dB

8 dBm

On 10 MHz Filtered IBW 89.5 dB 4 dBm

RRC Weighting Accuracy

White noise in Adjacent Channel TOI-induced spectrum rms CW error

0.00 dB nominal

0.001 dB nominal

0.012 dB nominal

a. The effect of scale fidelity on the ratio of two powers is called the relative scale fidelity. The scale fidelity specified

in the Amplitude section is an absolute scale fidelity with –35 dBm at the input mixer as the reference point. The

relative scale fidelity is nominally only 0.01 dB larger than the absolute scale fidelity. b. See Amplitude Accuracy and Range section. c. See Frequency and Time section. d. Expressed in decibels. e. An ACP measurement measures the power in adjacent channels. The shape of the response versus frequency of

those adjacent channels is occasionally critical. One parameter of the shape is its 3 dB bandwidth. When the

bandwidth (called the Ref BW) of the adjacent channel is set, it is the 3 dB bandwidth that is set. The passband

response is given by the convolution of two functions: a rectangle of width equal to Ref BW and the power

response versus frequency of the RBW filter used. Measurements and specifications of analog radio ACPs are

often based on defined bandwidths of measuring receivers, and these are defined by their 6 dB widths, not their

3 dB widths. To achieve a passband whose 6 dB width is x, set the Ref BW to be x  0.572  RBW. f. Most versions of adjacent channel power measurements use negative numbers, in units of dBc, to refer to the

power in an adjacent channel relative to the power in a main channel, in accordance with ITU standards. The

standards for W-CDMA analysis include ACLR, a positive number represented in dB units. In order to be consis-

tent with other kinds of ACP measurements, this measurement and its specifications will use negative dBc

results, and refer to them as ACPR, instead of positive dB results referred to as ACLR. The ACLR can be deter-

mined from the ACPR reported by merely reversing the sign. g. The accuracy of the Adjacent Channel Power Ratio will depend on the mixer drive level and whether the distortion

products from the analyzer are coherent with those in the UUT. These specifications apply even in the worst case

condition of coherent analyzer and UUT distortion products. For ACPR levels other than those in this specifica-

tions table, the optimum mixer drive level for accuracy is approximately 37 dBm  (ACPR/3), where the ACPR is

given in (negative) decibels.

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h. To meet this specified accuracy when measuring mobile station (MS) or user equipment (UE) within 3 dB of the

required 33 dBc ACPR, the mixer level (ML) must be optimized for accuracy. This optimum mixer level is

22 dBm, so the input attenuation must be set as close as possible to the average input power  (22 dBm). For

example, if the average input power is 6 dBm, set the attenuation to 16 dB. This specification applies for the

normal 3.5 dB peak-to-average ratio of a single code. Note that, if the mixer level is set to optimize dynamic

range instead of accuracy, accuracy errors are nominally doubled. i. ACPR accuracy at 10 MHz offset is warranted when the input attenuator is set to give an average mixer level of

14 dBm. j. In order to meet this specified accuracy, the mixer level must be optimized for accuracy when measuring node B

Base Transmission Station (BTS) within 3 dB of the required 45 dBc ACPR. This optimum mixer level is 18

dBm, so the input attenuation must be set as close as possible to the average input power  (18 dBm). For

example, if the average input power is 6 dBm, set the attenuation to 12 dB. This specification applies for the

normal 10 dB peak-to-average ratio (at 0.01 probability) for Test Model 1. Note that, if the mixer level is set to

optimize dynamic range instead of accuracy, accuracy errors are nominally doubled. k. Accuracy can be excellent even at low ACPR levels assuming that the user sets the mixer level to optimize the

dynamic range, and assuming that the analyzer and UUT distortions are incoherent. When the errors from the

UUT and the analyzer are incoherent, optimizing dynamic range is equivalent to minimizing the contribution of

analyzer noise and distortion to accuracy, though the higher mixer level increases the display scale fidelity errors.

This incoherent addition case is commonly used in the industry and can be useful for comparison of analysis

equipment, but this incoherent addition model is rarely justified. This derived accuracy specification is based on a

mixer level of 14 dBm. l. To meet this specified accuracy when measuring mobile station (MS) or user equipment (UE) within 3 dB of the

required 33 dBc ACPR, the mixer level (ML) must be optimized for accuracy. This optimum mixer level is

22 dBm, so the input attenuation must be set as close as possible to the average input power  (22 dBm). For

example, if the average input power is 6 dBm, set the attenuation to 16 dB. This specification applies for the

normal 3.5 dB peak-to-average ratio of a single code. Note that, if the mixer level is set to optimize dynamic

range instead of accuracy, accuracy errors are nominally doubled. m. ACPR accuracy at 10 MHz offset is warranted when the input attenuator is set to give an average mixer level of

14 dBm. n. In order to meet this specified accuracy, the mixer level must be optimized for accuracy when measuring node B

Base Transmission Station (BTS) within 3 dB of the required 45 dBc ACPR. This optimum mixer level is 18

dBm, so the input attenuation must be set as close as possible to the average input power  (18 dBm). For

example, if the average input power is 6 dBm, set the attenuation to 12 dB. This specification applies for the

normal 10 dB peak-to-average ratio (at 0.01 probability) for Test Model 1. Note that, if the mixer level is set to

optimize dynamic range instead of accuracy, accuracy errors are nominally doubled. o. Accuracy can be excellent even at low ACPR levels assuming that the user sets the mixer level to optimize the

dynamic range, and assuming that the analyzer and UUT distortions are incoherent. When the errors from the

UUT and the analyzer are incoherent, optimizing dynamic range is equivalent to minimizing the contribution of

analyzer noise and distortion to accuracy, though the higher mixer level increases the display scale fidelity errors.

This incoherent addition case is commonly used in the industry and can be useful for comparison of analysis

equipment, but this incoherent addition model is rarely justified. This derived accuracy specification is based on a

mixer level of 14 dBm. p. The dynamic range shown with Noise Correction = Off applies with Noise Floor Extension On. (Noise Correction is

the process within the measurement of making a calibration of the noise floor at the exact analyzer settings used

for the measurement. Noise Floor Extension is the factory calibration of the noise floor.) q. Keysight measures 100 of the signal analyzers for dynamic range in the factory production process. This mea-

surement requires a near-ideal signal, which is impractical for field and customer use. Because field verification is

impractical, Keysight only gives a typical result. More than 80 of prototype instruments met this “typical” spec-

ification; the factory test line limit is set commensurate with an on-going 80 yield to this typical.

The ACPR dynamic range is verified only at 2 GHz, where Keysight has the near-perfect signal available. The

dynamic range is specified for the optimum mixer drive level, which is different in different instruments and dif-

ferent conditions. The test signal is a 1 DPCH signal.

The ACPR dynamic range is the observed range. This typical specification includes no measurement uncertainty.

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r. ML is Mixer Level, which is defined to be the input signal level minus attenuation. s. All three production units hand-measured had performance better than 88 dB with a test signal even better than

the "near-ideal" one used for statistical process control in production mentioned in the footnote

above. Therefore, this value can be considered "Nominal" not "Typical" by the definitions used within this document. These observations were done near 2 GHz because that is a common W-CDMA operating region in which the analyzer third-order dynamic range is near its best.

t. 3GPP requires the use of a root-raised-cosine filter in evaluating the ACLR of a device. The accuracy of the pass-

band shape of the filter is not specified in standards, nor is any method of evaluating that accuracy. This footnote discusses the performance of the filter in this instrument. The effect of the RRC filter and the effect of the RBW used in the measurement interact. The analyzer compensates the shape of the RRC filter to accommodate the RBW filter. The effectiveness of this compensation is summarized in three ways:  White noise in Adj Ch: The compensated RRC filter nominally has no errors if the adjacent channel has a spectrum that is flat across its width.  TOIinduced spectrum: If the spectrum is due to thirdorder intermodulation, it has a distinctive shape. The computed errors of the compensated filter are 0.001 dB for the 100 kHz RBW used for UE testing with the IBW method. It is 0.000 dB for the 27 kHz RBW filter used for BTS testing with the Filtered IBW method. The worst error for RBWs between 27 and 390 kHz is 0.05 dB for a 330 kHz RBW filter.  rms CW error: This error is a measure of the error in measuring a CWlike spurious component. It is evaluated by computing the root of the mean of the square of the power error across all frequencies within the adjacent channel. The computed rms error of the compensated filter is 0.012 dB for the 100 kHz RBW used for UE testing with the IBW method. It is 0.000 dB for the 27 kHz RBW filter used for BTS testing. The worst error for RBWs between 27 kHz and 470 kHz is 0.057 dB for a 430 kHz RBW filter.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Multi-Carrier Adjacent Channel Power

Case: Radio Std = 3GPP W-CDMA RRC weighted, 3.84 MHz noise bandwidth, Noise

Correction (NC) on

ACPR Accuracy (4 carriers)

Radio Offset

Coher

UUT ACPR Range

MLOpt

BTS 5 MHz no 0.09 dB 42 to 48 dB 15 dBm

a. Coher = no means that the specified accuracy only applies when the distortions of the device under test are not

coherent with the third-order distortions of the analyzer. Incoherence is often the case with advanced multi-carrier amplifiers built with compensations and predistortions that mostly eliminate coherent third-order effects in the amplifier.

b. Optimum mixer level (MLOpt). The mixer level is given by the average power of the sum of the four carriers

minus the input attenuation.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Power Statistics CCDF

Histogram Resolution

0.01 dB

a. The Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) is a reformatting of a histogram of the power

envelope. The width of the amplitude bins used by the histogram is the histogram resolution. The resolution of the CCDF will be the same as the width of those bins.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Burst Power

Methods Power above threshold

Power within burst width

Results Output power, average

Output power, single burst Maximum power Minimum power within burst Burst width

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

TOI (Third Order Intermodulation)

Measures TOI of a signal with two dominant tones

Results Relative IM tone powers (dBc)

Absolute tone powers (dBm)

Intercept (dBm)

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Harmonic Distortion

Maximum harmonic number 10th

Results Fundamental Power (dBm)

Relative harmonics power (dBc)

Total harmonic distortion (%, dBc)

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Spurious Emissions Table-driven spurious signals;

search across regions

Case: Radio Std = 3GPP W-CDMA

Dynamic Range

, relative (RBW=1 MHz)

88.8 dB 92.1 dB (typical)

(1 to 3.6GHz)

Dynamic Range

, relative (RBW=1 MHz)

86.9 dB 89.9 dB (typical)

(1 to 3.6GHz) (Option EP0)

Sensitivity

, absolute (RBW=1 MHz)

88.5 dBm 91.5 dBm (typical)

(1 to 3.6 GHz)

Sensitivity

, absolute (RBW=1 MHz)

865 dBm 89.5 dBm (typical)

(1 to 3.6 GHz) (Option EP0)

Accuracy Attenuation = 10 dB

20 Hz to 3.6 GHz 0.19 dB (95th percentile)

3.5 to 8.4 GHz 1.08 dB (95th percentile)

3.5 to 8.4 GHz (Option EP0) 1.15 dB (95th percentile)

8.3 to 13.6 GHz 1.48 dB (95th percentile)

8.3 to 13.6 GHz (Option EP0) 1.52 dB (95th percentile)

a. The dynamic range is specified at 12.5 MHz offset from center frequency with mixer level of 1 dB compression

point, which will degrade accuracy 1 dB.

b. The dynamic range is specified at 12.5 MHz offset from center frequency with mixer level of 1 dB compression

point, which will degrade accuracy 1 dB.

c. The sensitivity is specified at far offset from carrier, where phase noise does not contribute. You can derive the

dynamic range at far offset from 1 dB compression mixer level and sensitivity.

d. The sensitivity is specified at far offset from carrier, where phase noise does not contribute. You can derive the

dynamic range at far offset from 1 dB compression mixer level and sensitivity.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Spectrum Emission Mask Table-driven spurious signals;

measurement near carriers

Case: Radio Std = cdma2000

Dynamic Range, relative (750 kHz offset

Sensitivity, absolute (750 kHz offset

)

) (Option EP0)

Accuracy (750 kHz offset)

Relative

Absolute

(20 to 30°C)

Case: Radio Std = 3GPP WCDMA

Dynamic Range, relative (2.515 MHz offset

Sensitivity, absolute (2.515 MHz offset

)

) (Option EP0)

)

) (Option EP0)

)

) (Option EP0)

85.9 dB 89.5 dB (typical)

83.8 dB 87.5 dB (typical)

103.7 dBm 106.7 dBm (typical)

101.7 dBm 104.7 dBm (typical)

0.06 dB

0.62 dB 0.21 dB (95th percentile  2)

87.9 dB 92.6 dB (typical)

85.5 dB 90.3 dB (typical)

103.7 dBm 106.7 dBm (typical)

101.7 dBm 104.7 dBm (typical)

Accuracy (2.515 MHz offset)

Relative

Absolute

(20 to 30°C)

0.08 dB

0.62 dB

0.21 dB (95th percentile  2)

a. The dynamic range specification is the ratio of the channel power to the power in the offset specified. The

dynamic range depends on the measurement settings, such as peak power or integrated power. Dynamic range specifications are based on default measurement settings, with detector set to average, and depend on the mixer level. Default measurement settings include 30 kHz RBW.

b. This dynamic range specification applies for the optimum mixer level, which is about 18 dBm. Mixer level is

defined to be the average input power minus the input attenuation.

c. The sensitivity is specified with 0 dB input attenuation. It represents the noise limitations of the analyzer. It is

tested without an input signal. The sensitivity at this offset is specified in the default 30 kHz RBW, at a center frequency of 2 GHz.

d. The relative accuracy is a measure of the ratio of the power at the offset to the main channel power. It applies for

spectrum emission levels in the offsets that are well above the dynamic range limitation.

e. The absolute accuracy of SEM measurement is the same as the absolute accuracy of the spectrum analyzer. See

“Absolute Amplitude Accuracy” on page 41 for more information. The numbers shown are for 0 to 3.6

GHz, with attenuation set to 10 dB.

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Options

The following options and applications affect instrument specifications.

Option 503: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 3.6 GHz

Option 508: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 8.4 GHz

Option 513: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 13.6 GHz

Option 526: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 26.5 GHz

Option 543: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 43 GHz

Option 544: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 44 GHz

Option 550: Frequency range, 3 Hz to 50 GHz

Option ALV: Auxiliary Log Video output

Option B1X:

Option B25: Analysis bandwidth, 25 MHz

Option B40: Analysis bandwidth, 40 MHz

Option B85: Analysis bandwidth, 85 MHz

Option BBA: BBIQ inputs, analog

Option C35: APC 3.5 mm connector (for Freq Option 526 only)

Option CR3: Connector Rear, second IF Out

Option CRP: Connector Rear, arbitrary IF Out

Option EA3: Electronic attenuator, 3.6 GHz

Option EMC: Precompliance EMC Features

Option EP0: Enhanced Phase noise, DDS LO

Option ESC: External source control

Option EXM: External mixing

Option LNP: Low Noise Path

Option MPB: Preselector bypass

Analysis bandwidth, 160/140 MHz

Option NFE: Noise floor extension, instrument alignment

Option P03: Preamplifier, 3.6 GHz

Option P08: Preamplifier, 8.4 GHz

Option P13: Preamplifier, 13.6 GHz

Option P26: Preamplifier, 26.5 GHz

Option P43: Preamplifier, 43 GHz

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Option P44: Preamplifier, 44 GHz

Option P50: Preamplifier, 50 GHz

Option RT1: Real-time analysis up to 160 MHz, basic detection

Option RT2: Real-time analysis up to 160 MHz, optimum detection

Option TDS: Time domain scan

Option YAS: Y-Axis Screen Video output

Option YAV: Y-Axis Video output

N6149A: iDEN/WiDEN/MotoTalk measurement application

N6152A: Digital Cable TV measurement application

N6153A: DVB-T/H measurement application

N6155A: ISDB-T with T2 measurement application

N6156A: DTMB measurement application

N6158A: CMMB measurement application

N9051A: Pulse measurement software

N9063A: Analog Demodulation measurement application

N9064A: VXA Vector Signal and WLAN measurement application

N9068A: Phase Noise measurement application

N9069A: Noise Figure measurement application

N9071A: GSM/EDGE/EDGE Evolution measurement application

N9072A: cdma2000/cdmaOne measurement application

N9073A: W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA+ measurement application

N9075A: 802.16 OFDMA measurement application

N9076A: 1xEV-DO measurement application

N9077A: WLAN measurement application

N9079A: TD-SCDMA measurement application

N9080A: LTE-FDD measurement application

N9080B: LTE-Advanced FDD measurement application

N9081A: Bluetooth measurement application

N9082A: LTE-TDD measurement application

N9082B: LTE-Advanced TDD measurement application

N9083A: Multi-Standard Radio (MSR) measurement application

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PXA Signal Analyzer Options

a. Instruments with 160 MHz bandwidth will display "N9030A-B1Y Analysis bandwidth Extension, 160 MHz" after

pressing: System, Show, System on the instrument.

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PXA Signal Analyzer General

General

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Calibration Cycle 1 year

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Temperature Range

Operating

Altitude 2,300m0 to 55C

Altitude = 4,500 m 0 to 47C

Derating

Storage

Altitude

40 to +70C

4,500 m (approx 15,000 feet)

Humidity

Relative humidity Type tested at 95%, +40°C

(non-condensing)

a. For earlier instruments (S/N <MY49430337/SG49430006/US49230450), the operating temperature ranges

from 5 to 50C.

b. The maximum operating temperature derates linearly from altitude of 4,500 m to 2,300 m. c. For earlier instruments (S/N <MY49430337/SG49430006/US49230450), and installed with hard disk drives,

the storage temperature ranges from –40 to +65C.

d. For earlier instrument (S/N <MY49430337/SG49430006/US49230450), the altitude was specified as 3,000 m

(approximately 10,000 feet).

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Environmental and Military Specifications

Samples of this product have been type tested in accordance with the Keysight Environmental Test Manual and verified to be robust against the environmental stresses of Storage, Transportation and End-use; those stresses include but are not limited to temperature, humidity, shock, vibration, altitude and power line conditions. Test Methods are aligned with IEC 60068-2 and levels are similar to MIL-PRF-28800F Class 3.

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Description Specifications

EMC Complies with the essential requirements of the European EMC Directive as well as

current editions of the following standards (dates and editions are cited in the Declaration of Conformity):

— IEC/EN 61326-1 or IEC/EN 61326-2-1 — CISPR 11 Group 1, Cass A — AS/NZS CISPR 11 —ICES/NMB-001

This ISM device complies with Canadian ICES-001. Cet appareil ISM est conforme a la norme NMB-001 du Canada.

Acoustic statement (European Machinery Directive 2002/42/EC, 1.7.4.2u

Acoustic noise emission

LpA <70 dB

Operator position

Normal operation mode

Description Specification Supplemental Information

Acoustic Noise--Further Information

Ambient Temperature

< 40C Nominally under 55 dBA Sound Pressure. 55 dBA is generally

 40C Nominally under 65 dBA Sound Pressure. 65 dBA is generally

Description Specifications

Safety Complies with European Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC

— IEC/EN 61010-1 3rd Edition — Canada: CSA C22.2 No. 61010-1-12 — USA: UL 61010-1 3rd Edition

Values given are per ISO 7779 standard in the "Operator Sitting" position

considered suitable for use in quiet office environments.

considered suitable for use in noisy office environments. (The fan speed, and thus the noise level, increases with increasing ambient temperature.)

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Description Specification Supplemental Information

Power Requirements

Low Range

Voltage 100 to 120 V

Frequency 50, 60 or 400 Hz

High Range

Voltage 220 to 240 V

Frequency 50 or 60 Hz

Power Consumption, On 630 W Maximum

Power Consumption, Standby 45 W Standby power is not supplied to the

frequency reference oscillator but to the CPU.

Typical instrument configuration Power (nominal)

Base PXA instrument 330 W

Adding Option B85/B1X to base instrument +45 W

Adding Option BBA to base instrument +46 W

Description Supplemental Information

Measurement Speed

Local measurement and display update rate

Remote measurement and LAN transfer rate

Nominal

10 ms (100/s)

Marker Peak Search 2.5 ms

Center Frequency Tune and Transfer (Band 0) 43 ms

Center Frequency Tune and Transfer (Bands 1-4) 69 ms

Measurement/Mode Switching 40 ms

W-CDMA ACLR measurement time See page 72

Measurement Time vs. Span See page 31

a. Sweep Points = 101. b. Factory preset, fixed center frequency, RBW = 1 MHz, 10 MHz < span  600 MHz, stop frequency  3.6 GHz,

Auto Align Off.

c. Phase Noise Optimization set to Fast Tuning, Display Off, 32 bit integer format, markers Off, single sweep, mea-

sured with IBM compatible PC with 2.99 GHz Pentium® 4 with 2 GB RAM running Windows® XP, Keysight I/O Libraries Suite Version 14.1, one meter GPIB cable, National Instruments PCI-GPIB Card and NI-488.2 DLL.

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Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Display

Resolution 1024  768 XGA

Size 213 mm (8.4 in) diagonal (nominal)

a. The LCD display is manufactured using high precision technology. However, there may be up to six bright points

(white, blue, red or green in color) that constantly appear on the LCD screen. These points are normal in the manufacturing process and do not affect the measurement integrity of the product in any way.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Data Storage

Internal Total

Removeable solid state drive (80 GB

Internal User 9 GB available on separate partition for user

data

a. For earlier instruments (S/N <MY49430337/SG49430006/US49230450), a hard disk (>80 GB) drive is installed

as a standard feature unless ordered with a solid state drive.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Weight Weight without options

Net 22 kg (48 lbs) (nominal)

Shipping 34 kg (75 lbs) (nominal)

Cabinet Dimensions Cabinet dimensions exclude front and rear

Height 177 mm (7.0 in)

protrusions.

Width 426 mm (16.8 in)

Length 556 mm (21.9 in)

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PXA Signal Analyzer Inputs/Outputs

Inputs/Outputs

Front Panel

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

RF Input

Connector

Standard Type-N female Frequency Option 503, 508, 513, and 526

2.4 mm male Frequency Option 543, 544, and 550

Option C35 3.5 mm male Frequency Option 526 only

Impedance 50 (nominal)

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Probe Power

Voltage/Current +15 Vdc, 7 at 0 to 150 mA (nominal)

12.6 Vdc, 10 at 0 to 150 mA (nominal)

GND

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

USB 2.0 Ports

Host (2 ports)

Connector USB Type “A” (female)

Output Current 0.5 A (nominal)

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Headphone Jack

Connector miniature stereo audio jack 3.5 mm (also known as "1/8 inch")

Output Power 90 mW per channel into 16 (nominal)

See Rear Panel for other ports

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Rear Panel

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

10 MHz Out

Connector BNC female

Impedance 50 (nominal)

Output Amplitude 0 dBm (nominal)

Output Configuration AC coupled, sinusoidal

Frequency 10 MHz 

(1 + frequency reference accuracy)

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Ext Ref In

Connector BNC female Note: Analyzer noise sidebands and spurious

response performance may be affected by the quality of the external reference used. See

footnote within the Dynamic Range section on page 66.

Impedance 50 (nominal)

Input Amplitude Range

sine wave square wave

Input Frequency 1 to 50 MHz (nominal)

6

Lock range

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Sync Reserved for future use

Connector BNC female

2  10 reference input frequency

of ideal external

5 to +10 dBm (nominal)

0.2 to 1.5 V peak-to-peak (nominal)

(selectable to 1 Hz resolution)

in the Phase Noise specifications

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PXA Signal Analyzer Inputs/Outputs

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Trigger Inputs

(Trigger 1 In, Trigger 2 In)

Connector BNC female

Impedance 10 k (nominal)

Trigger Level Range 5 to +5 V 1.5 V (TTL) factory preset

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Trigger Outputs

(Trigger 1 Out, Trigger 2 Out)

Connector BNC female

Impedance 50 (nominal)

Level 0 to 5 V (CMOS)

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Monitor Output

Connector

Format

VGA compatible, 15-pin mini D-SUB

Either trigger source may be selected

XGA (60 Hz vertical sync rates, non-interlaced) Analog RGB

Resolution

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Analog Out

Connector BNC female

Impedance 50 (nominal)

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Noise Source Drive +28 V (Pulsed)

Connector BNC female

Output voltage on 28.0 ± 0.1 V 60 mA maximum current

Output voltage off < 1.0 V

1024  768

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Description Specs Supplemental Information

SNS Series Noise Source For use with Keysight Technologies SNS Series noise sources

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Digital Bus This port is intended for use with the Keysight N5105 and N5106 products

only. It is not available for general purpose use.

Connector MDR-80

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

USB 2.0 Ports

Host (3 ports)

See Front Panel for additional ports

Connector USB Type “A” (female)

Output Current

0.5 A (nominal)

Device (1 port)

Connector USB Type “B” (female)

a. Earlier instruments with SN prefix MY/SG/US55330000 shipped with 4 USB ports.

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

GPIB Interface

Connector IEEE-488 bus connector

GPIB Codes SH1, AH1, T6, SR1, RL1, PP0, DC1, C1, C2, C3 and

C28, DT1, L4, C0

Mode Controller or device

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

LAN TCP/IP Interface RJ45 Ethertwist 1000BaseT

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PXA Signal Analyzer Regulatory Information

Regulatory Information

This product is designed for use in Installation Category II and Pollution Degree 2 per IEC 61010 3rd ed, and 664 respectively.

This product has been designed and tested in accordance with accepted industry standards, and has been supplied in a safe condition. The instruction documentation contains information and warnings which must be followed by the user to ensure safe operation and to maintain the product in a safe condition.

This product is intended for indoor use.

The CE mark is a registered trademark of the European Community (if accompanied by a year, it is the year when the design was proven). This product complies with all relevant directives.

ccr.keysight@keysight.com

ICES/NMB-001 “This ISM device complies with Canadian ICES-001.”

ISM 1-A (GRP.1 CLASS A) This is a symbol of an Industrial Scientific and Medical Group 1 Class A product.

The CSA mark is a registered trademark of the CSA International.

The Keysight email address is required by EU directives applicable to our product.

“Cet appareil ISM est conforme a la norme NMB du Canada.”

(CISPR 11, Clause 4)

The RCM mark is a registered trademark of the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

This symbol indicates separate collection for electrical and electronic equipment mandated under EU law as of August 13, 2005. All electric and electronic equipment are required to be separated from normal waste for disposal (Reference WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC).

China RoHS regulations include requirements related to packaging, and require compliance to China standard GB18455-2001.

This symbol indicates compliance with the China RoHS regulations for paper/fiberboard packaging.

South Korean Certification (KC) mark; includes the marking’s identifier code which follows this format:

MSIP-REM-YYY-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

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EMC: Complies with the essential requirements of the European EMC Directive as well as current editions of the following standards (dates and editions are cited in the Declaration of Conformity):

— IEC/EN 61326-1 — CISPR 11, Group 1, Class A — AS/NZS CISPR 11 — ICES/NMB-001

This ISM device complies with Canadian ICES-001.

Cet appareil ISM est conforme a la norme NMB-001 du Canada.

This is a sensitive measurement apparatus by design and may have some performance loss (up to 25 dBm above the Spurious Responses, Residual specification of -100 dBm) when exposed to ambient continuous electromagnetic phenomenon in the range of 80 MHz -2.7 GHz when tested per IEC 61000-4-3.

South Korean Class A EMC declaration:

This equipment has been conformity assessed for use in business environments. In a residential environment this equipment may cause radio interference. This EMC statement applies to the equipment only for use in business environment.

SAFETY: Complies with the essential requirements of the European Low Voltage Directive as well as current editions of the following standards (dates and editions are cited in the Declaration of Conformity):

— IEC/EN 61010-1 — Canada: CSA C22.2 No. 61010-1 — USA: UL std no. 61010-1

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PXA Signal Analyzer Regulatory Information

Acoustic statement: (European Machinery Directive)

Acoustic noise emission

LpA <70 dB

Operator position

Normal operation mode per ISO 7779

To find a current Declaration of Conformity for a specific Keysight product, go to: http://www.keysight.com/go/conformity

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Specification Guide

2 I/Q Analyzer

This chapter contains specifications for the I/Q Analyzer measurement application (Basic Mode).

I/Q Analyzer Specifications Affected by I/Q Analyzer

Specifications Affected by I/Q Analyzer

Specification Name Information

Number of Frequency Display Trace Points (buckets)

Resolution Bandwidth See “Frequency” on page 95 in this chapter.

Video Bandwidth Not available.

Clipping-to-Noise Dynamic Range See “Clipping-to-Noise Dynamic Range” on page 96 in this

Resolution Bandwidth Switching Uncertainty Not specified because it is negligible.

Available Detectors Does not apply.

Spurious Responses The “Spurious Responses” on page 58 of core specifications still

IF Amplitude Flatness See “IF Frequency Response” on page 39 of the core

IF Phase Linearity See “IF Phase Linearity” on page 40 of the core specifications for

Does not apply.

chapter.

apply. Additional bandwidth-option-dependent spurious responses are given in the Analysis Bandwidth chapter for any optional bandwidths in use.

specifications for the 10 MHz bandwidth. Specifications for wider bandwidths are given in the Analysis Bandwidth chapter for any optional bandwidths in use.

the 10 MHz bandwidth. Specifications for wider bandwidths are given in the Analysis Bandwidth chapter for any optional bandwidths in use.

Data Acquisition See “Data Acquisition” on page 97 in this chapter for the 10 MHz

bandwidth. Specifications for wider bandwidths are given in the Analysis Bandwidth chapter for any optional bandwidths in use.

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I/Q Analyzer Frequency

Frequency

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Frequency Span

Standard instrument 10 Hz to10 MHz

Option B25 10 Hz to 25 MHz

Option B40 10 Hz to 40 MHz

Option B85 10 Hz to 85 MHz

Option B1X

Resolution Bandwidth

(Spectrum Measurement)

Range

Overall Span = 1 MHz Span = 10 kHz Span = 100 Hz

Window Shapes Flat Top, Uniform, Hanning, Hamming,

Analysis Bandwidth (Span)

(Waveform Measurement)

Standard instrument 10 Hz to 10 MHz

Option B25 10 Hz to 25 MHz

Option B40 10 Hz to 40 MHz

Option B85 10 Hz to 85 MHz

Option B1X

10 Hz to 160 MHz

100 mHz to 3 MHz 50 Hz to 1 MHz 1 Hz to 10 kHz 100 mHz to 100 Hz

Gaussian, Blackman, Blackman-Harris, Kaiser Bessel (K-B 70 dB, K-B 90 dB & K-B 110 dB)

10 Hz to 160 MHz

a. Instruments with 160 MHz bandwidth will display "N9030A-B1Y Analysis bandwidth Extension, 160 MHz" after

pressing: System, Show, System on the instrument.

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I/Q Analyzer Clipping-to-Noise Dynamic Range

Clipping-to-Noise Dynamic Range

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Clipping-to-Noise Dynamic Range

Excluding residuals and spurious responses

Clipping Level at Mixer Center frequency  20 MHz

IF Gain = Low 10 dBm 8 dBm (nominal)

IF Gain = High 20 dBm 17.5 dBm (nominal)

Noise Density at Mixer at center frequency

(DANL

+ IFGainEffectd) + 2.25

Example

a. This specification is defined to be the ratio of the clipping level (also known as “ADC Over Range”) to the noise

density. In decibel units, it can be defined as clipping_level [dBm]  noise_density [dBm/Hz]; the result has units of dBFS/Hz (fs is “full scale”).

b. The noise density depends on the input frequency. It is lowest for a broad range of input frequencies near the

center frequency, and these specifications apply there. The noise density can increase toward the edges of the span. The effect is nominally well under 1 dB.

c. The primary determining element in the noise density is the “Displayed Average Noise Level” on

page 51.

d. DANL is specified with the IF Gain set to High, which is the best case for DANL but not for Clipping-to-noise

dynamic range. The core specifications “Displayed Average Noise Level” on page 51, gives a line entry on the excess noise added by using IF Gain = Low, and a footnote explaining how to combine the IF Gain noise with the DANL.

e. DANL is specified for log averaging, not power averaging, and thus is 2.51 dB lower than the true noise density.

It is also specified in the narrowest RBW, 1 Hz, which has a noise bandwidth slightly wider than 1 Hz. These two effects together add up to 2.25 B.

f. As an example computation, consider this: For the case where DANL = 151 dBm in 1 Hz, IF Gain is set to low,

and the “Additional DANL” is 160 dBm, the total noise density computes to 148.2 dBm/Hz and the Clipping-to-noise ratio for a 10 dBm clipping level is 138.2 dBFS/Hz.

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Data Acquisition

Description Specifications Supplemental Information

Time Record Length Analysis Tool

IQ Analyzer 4,000,000 IQ sample pairs Waveform measurement Advanced Tools Data Packing 89600 VSA software or Fast

32-bit 64-bit

Length (IQ sample pairs) 536 MSa (2

Sa) 268 MSa (228 Sa) 2 GB total memory

Maximum IQ Capture Time Data Packing

(89600 VSA and Fast Capture) 32-bit 64-bit Calculated by: Length of IQ

10 MHz IFBW 42.94 s 21.47 s

Sample Rate (IQ Pairs) 1.25 × IFBW

ADC Resolution

16 bits

Capture

sample pairs/Sample Rate (IQ

Pairs)

a. This can also be accessed with the remote programming command of "read:wav0?". b. This can only be accessed with the remote programming command of "init:fcap" in the IQ Analyzer (Basic) wave-

form measurement.

c. For example, using 32-bit data packing at 10 MHz IF bandwidth (IFBW) the Maximum Capture Time is calculated

using the formula: "Max Capture Time = (2

)/(10 MHz × 1.25)".

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I/Q Analyzer Data Acquisition

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Specification Guide

3 VXA Vector Signal Analysis Application

This chapter contains specifications for the N9064A1 VXA vector signal modulation analysis measurement application.

Additional Definitions and Requirements

Specs & Nominals These specifications summarize the performance for the X-Series Signal

Because digital communications signals are noise-like, all measurements will have variations. The specifications apply only with adequate averaging to remove those variations.

The specifications apply in the frequency range documented in In-Band Frequency Range.

The specifications for this chapter apply only to instruments with Frequency Option 503, 508, 513 or 526. For Instruments with higher frequency options, the performance is nominal only and not subject to any warranted specifications.

Analyzer and apply to the VXA measurement application inside the analyzer. Values shown in the column labeled "Specs & Nominals" are a mix of warranted specifications, guaranteed-by-design parameters, and conservative but not warranted observations of performance of sample instruments.

1. In software versions prior to A.06.00, the VXA measurement application product number was 89601X. Software versions A.06.00 and beyond have renamed 89601X to N9064A.

VXA Vector Signal Analysis Application Vector Signal Analysis Performance (N9064A-1FP/1TP)

Vector Signal Analysis Performance (N9064A-1FP/1TP)

Frequency

Description Specs & Nominals Supplemental Information

Range See “Frequency Range” on

page 22

Center Frequency Tuning Resolution 1 mHz

Frequency Span, Maximum

FFT Spectrum 25 MHz (Option B25)

Frequency Points per Span

FFT Window Type

Window

Flat Top 0.41 0.01 dB >95 dBc

Gaussian Top 0.25 0.68 dB >125 dBc

Hanning 0.11 1.5 dB >31 dBc

10 MHz (standard)

40 MHz (Option B40)

85 MHz (Option B85)

160/140 MHz (Option B1X)

Calibrated points: 51 to 409,601 Displayed points: 51 to 524,288

Passband

Selectivity

Flatness

Rejection

The window choices allow the user to optimize as needed for best amplitude accuracy, best dynamic range, or best response to transient signal characteristics.

Uniform 0.0014 4.0 dB >13 dBc

a. Instruments with 160 MHz bandwidth will display "N9030A-B1Y Analysis bandwidth Extension, 160 MHz"

after pressing: System, Show, System on the instrument.

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Keysight N9030A PXA User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual