Tektronix RSA5000 DATASHEET

Spectrum Analyzers

RSA5000 Series Data Sheet

Features & Benefits

RSA5000 Series 3.0 and 6.2 GHz Real Time Signal Analyzers

Outstanding Mid-Rang e Spectrum Analysis

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+17 dBm 3
±0.5 dB Absolute Amplitude Accuracy to 3 GHz
Displayed Average Noise Level –154 dBm/Hz at 2 GHz and
–150 dBm/Hz at 10 kHz
Phase noise –109 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz and -134 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz
Carrier Frequency, 10 kHz Offset
High spe
at 10 kHz RBW in < 1 second

Reduce time-to-fault and increase design confidence with real time
signal p rocessing

Up to 292
waveforms per second
Swept DPX Spectrum enables unprecedented signal discovery over
full frequency range

rs zero in on the problem

Trigge

DPX Density Trigger on single occurrences as brief as 5.8 μsin
frequency domain and distinguish between c ontinuo us signals vs
infrequent event
Advanced t im e-qualified, runt, and frequency-edge triggers act on
complex signals as brief as 20 ns

Order Intercept at 2 GHz

ed sweeps with high resolution and low noise: 1 GHz sweeps

,000 spectrums per second, 50,000 time domain (zero span)

Capture the widest and deepest signals

25, 40 or 85 MHz acquisition bandwidths
Acquire more than 7 seconds at 85 MHz bandwidth

More standard analysis than you expect in an everyday tool

Measurements including Channel Power, ACLR, CCDF, OBW/EBW,
Spur Search ,
Amplitude, frequency, phase vs. time, DPX Spectrum, and
Spectrograms
Correlated multi-doma in displays

Optional performance offers add ed value

Advanced DPX including swept DPX, DPX Zero Span with real time
amplitude, frequency, or phase
Advanced Triggers DPX density, time-qualified, runt, frequency edge,
and frequen
Phase Noise and Jitter
Automated Settling Time Measurements (Frequency and Phase)
More than 20 pulse measurements including Rise Time, Pulse Width,
Pulse-to-Pulse Phase, Impulse Response
General P urpose Modulation Analysis of more than 2 0 Modulation
Types
Flexible OFDM analysis of 802.11a/g/j and WiMax 802.16-2004

EMI d etectors

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Applications

RF Debug a

Spectrum Management – reduce time to intercept and identify known
and unkno

Radio/Satellite Commu nications – Analyze complex behavior of new
designs

EMI Diagnostics – Increase confidence that designs will pass
complian

Radar/EW – Complete analysis o f pulsed, hopping signals of all types

nd design of components, modu les and systems of all types

wn signa ls

ce testing

Data Sheet

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discover in
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density tri
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automatic
the measur

ry DPX® spectrum display reveals transient signal behavior that helps you

stability, glitches, and interference. Here, three distinct signals can be seen.

el signals of different frequency-of-occurrence are seen in light and dark
hird signal beneath the center signal can also be discerned. The DPX

gger allows the user to acquire signals for analysis only when this third signal

Trigger On This™ has been activated, and a density measurement box is

ally opened, measuring a signal density 7.275%. Any signal density greater than

ed value will cause a trigger event.

High-performance Spectrum and Vector
Signal Analysis, and Much More

The RSA5000 Series replaces conventional high-performance signal
analyzers, offering the measurement confidence and functionality you
demand for everyday tasks. A +17 dBm TOI and –154 dBm/Hz DANL at
2 GHz gives you the dynamic range you expect for challenging spectrum
analysis measureme nts. All analysis is fully preselected and image free.
You never
bandwidth by ‘switching out the preselector’.

A complet
standard, including Channel Power, ACLR, CCDF, Occupied Bandwidth,

have to compromise between dynamic range and analysis

e toolset of power and signal statistics measurements are

AM/FM/PM, and Spurious measurements. Available Phase Noise and
General Purpose Mod ulation Analysis measurements round out the
expected set of

high-performance analysis tools.

But, just being an excellent mid-range signal analyzer is not sufficient to
meet the demands of today’s hopping, transient signals.

The RSA5000 Series will help you to easily discover design issues that
other signal analyzers may miss. The revolutionary DPX

®

spectrum display
offers an intuitive live color view of signal transients changing over tim e in
the frequency domain, giving you immediate confidence in the stability of
your design, or instantly displaying a fault when it occurs. This live display
of transients is impossible with o ther signal analyzers. Once a problem is
discovered with DPX

®

, the RSA5000 Series spectrum analyzers can be set
to trigger on the event, capture a contiguous time record of changing RF
events, a nd perform time-correlated analysis in all domains. You get the
functionality of a high-performance spectrum analyzer, wideband vector
signal analyzer, and the unique trigger-capture-analyze capab ility of a
real-time spectrum analyzer – all in a single package.

Discover

The patented DPX®spectrum processing engine brings live analysis
of transient events to spectrum analyzers. Performing up to 292,000
frequency

transforms per second, transients of a minimum event duration

of 5.8 μs in length are displayed in the frequency domain. This is orders
of magnitude fast er than swept analysis techniques. Events can be
color coded by rate of occurrence onto a bitmapped display, providing
unparalleled insight into transient signal behavior. The DPX spectrum
processor can be swept over the entire frequency range of the instrument,
enabling

broadband transient capture previously unavailable in any

spectrum analyzer.

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Trigger and Capture: The DPX Density™ Trigger monitors for changes in the frequency
domain, and captures any violations into memory. The spectrogram display (left panel)
shows frequency and amplitude changing over time. By selecting the point in time in
the spectrogram where the spectrum violation triggered the DPX Density™ Trigger, the
frequency domain view (right panel) automatically updates to show the detailed spectrum
view at that precise moment in time.

Tri gger

Tektronix has a long history of innovative triggering capability, and the RSA
Series spectrum analyzers lead the industry in triggered signal analysis.
The RSA5000 Series provides unique triggers essential for troubleshooting
modern digitally implemented RF systems. Includes time-qualified power,
runt, density, frequency, and frequency mask triggers.

Time qualification can be applied to any internal trigger source, enabling
capture of ‘the short pulse’ or ‘the long pulse’ in a pulse train, or, when

Spectrum Analyzers — RSA5000 Series

applied to the Frequency Mask Trigger, only triggering when a frequency
domain event lasts for a specified time. Runt triggers capture troublesome
infrequent pul
reducingtimetofault.

DPX Density™ Tr
density of the DPX display. The unique Trigger On This™ function allows
the user to simply point at the signal of interest on the DPX display, and
a trigger level is automatically set to trigger slightly below the measured
density level. You can capture low-level signals in the presence of high-level
signals at the click of a button.

The Frequency Mask Trigger (FMT) is easily configured to monitor all
changes in frequency occupancy within the acquisition bandwidth.

A Power Trigger working in the time domain can be armed to monitor for a
user-set power threshold. Resolution bandwidths may be used with the
power trigge
are available for synchronization to test system events.

Capture

Capture once
signals in an acquisition bandwidth are recorded into the RSA5000
Series deep memory. Record lengths vary depending upon the selected
acquisition bandwidth – up to 7 seconds at 85 MHz, 343 seconds at
1 MHz, or 6.1 hours at 10 kHz bandwidth with Memory Extension (Opt.

53). Real-time capture of small signals in the presence of large signals is
enabled wit
(Opt. 85). A cquisitions of any length can stored in Matlab™ Level 5 format
for offline analysis.

ses that either turn on or turn off to an incorrect level, greatly

igger works on the measured frequency of occurrence or

r for band limiting and noise reduction. Two external triggers

– make multiple measurements without recapturing. All

h 73 dB SFDR in all acqu isition bandwidths, even up to 85 MHz

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Data Sheet

Analyze

The RSA5000 Series offers analysis capabilities that advance productivity
for engineers working on components or in RF system design, integration,
and performance verification, or operations engineers working in networks,
or spectrum man

agement. In addition to spectrum analysis, spectrograms
display both frequency and amplitude changes over time. Time-correlated
measurements can be made across the frequency, phase, amplitude,
and modulation domains. This is ideal for signal analysis that includes
frequency hopping, pulse characteristics, modulation switching, settling
time, bandwidth changes, and intermittent signals.

The measurement capabilities of the RSA5000 Series and available options
and software packages are summarized below:

Measurement Functions

Measurements Description

Spectrum Analyzer
Measurements

Time Domain and
Statistical Measurements

Spur Sear
Measurem

Analog Modulation
Analysis Measurement
Functions

Phase Noise and Jitter
Measurements (Opt. 11)

Settling Time (Frequency
and Phase) (Opt. 12)

Advanced Pulse
Measurements Suite
(Opt. 20)

General Purpose Digital
Modulation Analysis
(Opt. 21)

ch
ent

Channel Power, Adjacent Channel Power, Multicarrier
Adjacent Channel Power/Leakage Ratio, Occupied
Bandwidth, xdB Down, dBm/Hz Marker, dBc/Hz Marker

RF IQ vs. Time, Power vs. Time, Frequency vs. Time,
Phase vs. Time, CCDF, Peak-to-Average Ratio

Up to 20 fr
(peak, av
VBW in eac
Measurem
relative
tabular f

% Amplitude Modulation (+, –, Total)
Frequency Modulation (±peak, +peak, –peak, RMS,
peak-peak/2, Frequency Error)
Phase Modulation (±peak, RMS, +peak, –peak)

10 Hz to 1 GHz Frequency Offset Range, Log
Frequency Scale
Traces – 2: ±Peak Trace, Average Trace, Trace
Smoothing and Averaging

Measured Frequency, Settling Time from last settled
frequency, Settling Time from last settled phase,
Settling Time from Trigger. Automatic or manual
reference frequency selection. User-adjustable
measurement bandwidth, averaging, and smoothing.
Pass/Fail Mask Testing with 3 user-settable zones

Average On Power, Peak Power, Average Transmitted
Power, Pulse Width, Rise Time, Fall Time, Repetition
Interval (seconds), Repetition Interval (Hz), Duty Factor
(%), Duty Factor (ratio), Ripple (dB), Ripple (%),
Overshoot (dB), Overshoot (%), Droop (dB), Droop (%),
Pulse-Pulse Frequency Difference, Pulse-Pulse Phase
Difference, RMS Frequency Error, Max Frequency
Error, RMS Phase Error, Max Phase Error, Frequency
Deviation, Phase Deviation, Impulse Response (dB),
Impulse Response (time), Time Stamp

Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) (RMS, Peak, EVM
vs. Time), Modulation Error Ratio (MER), Magnitude
Error (RMS, Peak, Mag Error vs. Time), Phase Error
(RMS, Peak, Phase Error vs. Time), Origin Offset,
Frequency Error, Gain Imbalance, Quadrature Error,
Rho, Constellation, Symbol Table

equency ranges, user-selected detectors

erage, QP), filters (RBW, CISPR, MIL), and

h range. Linear or Log frequency scale.

ents and violations in absolute power or

toacarrier. Upto999violationsidentified in

orm for export in CSV format

Measurements Description

Flexible OFDM analysis
(Opt. 22)

DPX Density
Measurement
(Opt. 200)

RSAVu Analysis Software W-CDMA, HSUPA. HSDPA, GSM/EDGE, CDMA2000

Analysis SW
(RSA-IQWIMAX)

Analysis Software
(RSALTE)

Time-correlated views in multiple domains provide a new level of insight into design
problems not possible with conventional analyzers. Here, ACLR and modulation quality
are performed simultaneously in a single acquisition, combined with the continuous
monitoring of the DPX

Spurious Search – Up to 20 noncontiguous frequency regions can be defined, each with
their own resolution bandwidth, video bandwidth, detector (peak, average, quasi-peak),
and limit ranges. Test results can be exported in CSV format to external programs, with up
to 999 violations reported. Spectrum results are available in linear or log scale.

OFDM Analysis for WLAN 802.11a/j/g and WiMax

802.16-2004
Measures % signal density at any location on the

DPX spectrum display and triggers on specified signal
density

1x, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, RFID, Phase Noise, Jitter,
IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n WLAN, IEEE 802.15.4 OQPSK
(Zigbee), Audio Analysis

WiMAX 802.16-2004 and 802.16e standards support

3GPP Release 8 LTE standards support

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spectrum display.

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Audio monitoring and modulation measurements simultaneously can make spectrum
management an easier, faster task. Here, the DPX spectrum display shows a live
spectrum of the signal of interest and simultaneously provides demodulated audio to the
internal instrument loudspeaker. FM deviation measurements are seen in the right side of
the display for t he same signal.

Spectrum Analyzers — RSA5000 Series

DPX Zero-span produces real time analysis in amplitude, frequency or phase vs. time.
Up to 50,000 waveforms per second are processed. DPX Zero-span ensures that all
time-domain anomalies are immediately found, reducing time-to-fault. Here, three distinct
pulse shapes are captured in zero-span amplitude vs. time. Two of the three waveforms
occur only once in 10,000 pulses, but all are displayed with DPX.

Phase noise and jitter measurements (Opt. 11) on the RSA5000 series may reduce
the cost of your measurements by reducing the need for a dedicated phase noise
tester. Outstanding phase noise across the operating range provides margin for many
applications. Here, phase noise on a 13 MHz carrier is measured at -119 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz
offset. The instrument phase noise of <–134 dBc/Hz at this frequency provides ample
measurement margin for the task.

Settling time measurements (Opt. 12) are easy and automated. The user can select
measurement bandwidth, tolerance bands, reference frequency (auto or manual), and
establish up to 3 tolerance bands vs. time for Pass/Fail testing. Settling time may be
referenced to external or internal trigger, and from the last settled frequency or phase. In
the illustration, frequency settling time for a hopped oscillator is measured from an external
trigger point from the device under test.

Advanced Triggers, Swept DPX, and Zero Span (Opt. 200) provides superior swept
spectrum analysis for transient signals. Here, a 150 MHz swath of spectrum is swept
across the ISM band. Multiple WLAN signals are seen, and narrow signals seen in the
blue peak-hold trace are Bluetooth access probes. Multiple interfering signals are seen
below the analyzers noise level in the multi-color DPX display.

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Data Sheet

Characteristics

Frequency Rel

Characteristic

Frequency Range

Initial Center Frequency
Setting Accuracy

Center Frequency Setting
Resolution

Frequency Marker
Readout Accuracy

RE

MF
Span Accuracy ±0.3% of Span (Auto mode)
Reference Frequency

Initial accuracy at cal

Aging per day

Aging per 10 years

Temperature drift 2 × 10–8(5 to 40 °C)

Cumulative error

(temperature + aging)
Reference Output Level >0 dBm (internal or external reference selected),

External Reference Input
Frequency

External Reference Input
Frequency Requirements

Spurious < –80 dBc within 100 kHz offset

Input level range –10 dBm to +6 dBm

Trigger Related

Characteristic

rigger Modes

T
Trigger Event Source RF Input, Trigger 1 (Front Panel), Trigger 2 (Rear

Trigger Types

Trigger Setting Trigger position settable from 1 to 99% of total

Trigger Combinational
Logic

Trigger Actions

ated

Description

1Hzto3.0GHz(RSA5103A)
1Hzto6.2GHz(RSA5106A)

Within 10–7after 10 minute warm-up

0.1 Hz

±(RE × MF +

0.001 × Span + 2) Hz

Reference Frequency Error
Marker Frequency (Hz)

–7

(after 10 min. warm-up)

1×10

–9

(after 30 days of operation)

1×10

–7

(after 10 years of operation)

3×10

4×10–7(within 10 years after calibration, typical)

+4 dBm, typical
10 MHz ± 30 Hz

Spurious level on input must be <–80 dBc within
100 kHz offset to avoid on-screen spurs

escription

D

ree Run, Triggered, FastFrame

F

Panel), Gated, Line
Power (Std), Frequency Mask (Opt. 52), Frequency

Edge, DPX Density, Runt, Time-Qualified (Opt. 200)

acquisition length
Trig1ANDTrig2/Gatemaybedefined as a trigger

event
Save acquisition and/or save picture on Trigger

Power Level Trigger

Characteristic

Level Range

Description

0dBto–100dBfromreferencelevel

Accuracy

±0.5 dB (level ≥ –50 dB from reference level)(for trigger levels

>30 dB above noise
floor, 10% to 90% of

±1.5 dB (from < –50 d B to –70 dB from reference level)

signal level)

Trigger Bandwidth Range

(at maximum
acquisition BW)

4 kHz to 10 MHz + wide open (standard)
4 kHz to 20 MHz + wide open (Opt. 40)
11kHzto40MHz+wideopen(Opt.85)

Trigger Position Timing Uncertainty

25 MHz Acquisition

Uncertainty = ±15 ns

BW, 10 MHz BW (Std.)
40 MHz Acquisition

Uncertainty = ±10 ns

BW, 20 MHz BW (Opt.

40)
85 MHz Acquisition

Uncertainty = ±5 ns
BW, 40 MHz BW
(Opt. 85)

Trigger Re-Arm Time, Minimum (Fast Frame ‘On’)

10 MHz Acquisition BW ≤25 μs
40 MHz Acquisition BW

≤10 μs
(Opt. 40)

85 MHz
(Opt.

Acquisition BW

85)

≤5 μs

Minimum Event Duration (Filter = Off)

25 MHz Acquisition BW

40 ns
(Std.)

40 MHz Acquisition BW

25 ns
(Opt. 40)

85 MHz Acquisition

12 ns
BW(Opt. 85)

External Trigger 1

Level Range –2.5 V to +2.5 V
Level Setting Resolution

0.01 V

Trigger Position Timing Uncertainty (50 Ω input impedance)

25 MHz Acquisition

Uncertainty = ±20 ns
BW, 25 MHz Span
(Std.)

40 MHz Acquisition

Uncertainty = ±15 ns
BW, 40 MHz Span
(Opt. 40)

85 MHz Acquisition

Uncertainty = ±12 ns
BW, 85 MHz Span
(Opt. 85)

Input Impedance

External Trigger 2

Selectable 50 Ω/5 kΩ impedance (nominal)

Threshold Voltage Fixed, TTL
Input Impedance
Trigger State Select

Trigger Output

10 kΩ (nominal)

High, Low

Voltage (Output Current <1 mA)

High: >2.0 V
Low: <0.4 V

Advanced trigger specifications are found in sections on Opt 52 (Frequency Mask
Trigger) and Opt. 200 (DPX, Time Qualified, Runt, and Frequency Edge triggers)

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