Spectrum Analyzers
RSA6000 Series Datasheet
Features
RSA6000 Series 6.2, 14, and 20 GHz Real-time Signal Analyzers
High-performance Spectrum Analysis
20 dBm 3
Displayed Average Noise Level –151 dBm/Hz at 2 GHz
(–167 dB
±0.5 dB Absolute Amplitude Accuracy to 3 GHz for High
Measurement Confidence
Fully Preselected and Image Free at All Times for Maximum Dynamic
Range at Any Acquisition Bandwidth
Fastest High-resolution Sweep Speed: 1 GHz sweep in 10 kHz RBW
in less t
Internal Preamp up to 20 GHz
Discove
DPX®Spectrum Processing provides an Intuitive Understanding
of Time-varying RF Signals with Color-graded Displays based on
Frequency of Occurrence
Revolutionary DPX Displays Transients with a Minimum Event
Duration of 3.7 μs
Swept D
Full Instrument Span
& Benefits
d
r
Order Intercept at 2 GHz, Typical
m/Hz, Preamp On, typical) enables Low-level Signal Search
han 1 second
r
PX Spectrum enables Unprecedented Signal D iscovery over
Trigger
Trigger on Frequency Edge or Power Level Transients with a
Minimum Event Duration of 3.7 μs in the Frequency Domain, 9.1 ns
in Time Domai
DPX D ensity™ Trigger Activated Directly from DPX Display
Time-qualified and Runt Triggers Trap Elusive Transients
Frequency Ma sk Trigger Captures Any Change in Frequency Domain
Capture
Up to 7.15 s Acquisitions at 110 MHz Bandwidth can be Directly
Stored as MATLAB™ Compatible Files
Gap-free DPX Spectrogram Records up to 4444 Days of Spectral
Information for Analysis and Replay
Interfaces with TekConnect®Probes for RF Probing
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Time-correlated Multidomain Displays for Quicker Understanding of
Cause and Effect when Troubleshooting
Power, Spectrum, and Sta tistics Measurements help you Characterize
Components
CCDF, OBW/EBW, and Spur Search
AM/FM/PM Modulation and Audio Measureme nts (Opt. 10)
Phase Noise and Jitter Measurements (Opt. 11)
Settling Time Measurements, Frequency, and Phase (Opt. 12)
Pulse Measurements (Opt. 20) – Over 20 Vector and Scalar
Parameter
provide Deep Insight into Pulse Train Behavior
General Purpose Digital Modulation Analysis (Opt. 21) provides
Vector Signal Analyzer Functionality fo r Over 20 Modulation Types
Flexible OFDM analysis of 802.11a/g/j/p and WiMAX 802.16-2004
Applicat
Spectrum Management – Find Interference and Unknown Signals
Radar/EW
Characterize Radar and Pulsed RF Signals
RF Debug – Components, Modules, and Systems
Radio/Satellite Communications – Analyze Time-variant Behavior of
Cognitive Rad io and Software-defined Radio Systems
EMI Diagnostics – Increase Confidence that Designs will Pass
nce Testing
Complia
n
and Systems: Channel Power, ACLR, Power vs. Time,
s including Rise Time, Pulse Width, Pulse-to-Pulse Phase
ions
– Full Characterization of Pulsed and Hopping Systems
Datasheet
Revolutionary DPX®spectrum display reveals transient signal behavior that helps you
discover instability, glitches, and interference. Here, an infrequently occurring transient
is seen in detail. The frequency of occurrence is color-graded, indicating the infrequent
transient event in blue and the noise background in red. The DPX Density™ Trigger is
activated, seen in the measurement box at the center of the screen, and Trigger On
This™ has been activated. Any signal density greater than the selected level causes a
trigger event.
High-per
Signal An
The RSA6000 Series replaces conventional high-performance signal
analyzer
demand for everyday tasks. A typical 20 dBm TOI and –151 dBm/Hz DANL
at 2 GHz gives you the dynamic range you expect for challenging spectrum
analysis measurements. All analysis is fully preselected and image free.
The R SA6000 Series uses broadband preselection filters that are always in
the signal path. You never have to compromise between dynamic range and
analysi
A complete toolset of power and signal statistics measurements is standard,
includi
formance Spectrum and Vector
alysis, and a Lot More
s, offering the measurement confidence and functionality you
s bandwidth by ‘switching out the preselector’.
ng Ch annel Power, ACLR, CCDF, Occupied Bandwidt h, AM/FM/PM,
and Spurious measurements. Available Phase Noise and General
Purpose Modulation Analysis measurements round out the expected set
of high-perfor
mance analysis tools.
But, just b eing a high-performance signal analyzer is not sufficient to meet
the demands of today’s hopping, transient signals.
The RSA6000 Series will help you to easily discover design issues that
other signal analyze rs may miss. The revolutionary DPX
®
spectrum display
offers an intuitive live color view of sign al transients c hanging over time 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 other signal analyzers. Once a problem is
discovered with DPX
®
, the RSA6000 Series spectrum analyzers can be set
to trigger on the event, capture a contiguous time record of changing RF
events, and 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 capability of a
real-time spectrum analyzer – all in a single package.
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The paten
ted DPX
spectrum processing engine brings live analysis
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of transient events to spectrum analyzers. Performing up to 292,968
frequency transforms per second, transients of a minimum event duration
of 3.7 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
eled insight into transient signal behavior. The DPX spectrum
unparall
processor can be swept over the entire frequency range of the instrument,
enabling broadband transient capture previously unavailable in any
spectrum ana lyzer. In applications that require only spectral information, the
RSA6000 Series p rovides gap -free spect ral recording, replay, and analysis
of up to 60,000 spectral traces. Spectrum recording resolution is variable
from 110
μs to 6400 s per line, allowing multiple days of recording time.
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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 RSA6000 Series provides unique triggers essential for
troubleshooting modern digitally implemented RF systems. Trigger types
ime-qualified power, runt, density, and frequency mask.
include t
Time qualification can be applied to any internal trigger source, enabling
capture o
f ‘the short pulse’ or ‘the long pulse’ in a pulse train, or only
Spectrum Analyzers — RSA6000 Series
triggering when a frequency domain event lasts for a specified time. Runt
triggers capture troublesome infrequent pulses t hat either turn on or turn off
to an incorrect
DPX Density™ Trigger works on the measured frequency of occurrence o r
density of the DPX display. The unique Trigger On This™ function allows
the user to simply point at the s ignal 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 trigger for band limiting and noise reduction. Two external triggers
are a vailable for synchronization to test system events.
Capture
Capture once – make multiple measurements without recap turing. All
signals in an acquisition bandwidth are recorded into the RSA6000
Series de
acquisition bandwidth – up to 7.15 secon ds at 110 MHz, 343.5 seconds
at 1 MHz, or 6.1 hours at 10 kHz bandwidth with Deep Memory (Opt. 53).
Real-time capture of small signals in the presence of large signals is
enabled with 73 dB SFDR in all acquisition bandwidths, even up to 110 MHz
(Opt. 110). Acquisitions of any length can stored in MATLAB™ Level 5
format f
level, greatly reducing time to fault.
ep memory. Record lengths vary depending upon the selec ted
or offline analysis.
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Datasheet
Analyze
The RSA6000 Series offers analysis capabilities that advance productivity
for engineers working on components or in RF system design, integ ration,
and performance verification, or o perations engineers working in networks,
or sp ectrum 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 m easure m ent capabilities of the RSA6000 Series and available options
and software packages are summarized below:
Measurement Functions
Measurements Description
Spectrum Analyzer
Measurements
Time Domain and
Statistical Measurements
Spur Search
Measurement
Analog Modulation
Measurements (Standard)
AM/FM/PM Modulation
and Audio Measurements
(Opt. 10)
Phase Noise and Jitter
Measurements (Opt. 11)
ling Time (Frequency
Sett
hase) (Opt. 12)
and P
Advanced Pulse
Measurements Suite
(Opt. 20)
General Purpose Digital
Modulation Analysis
(Opt. 21)
DPX Density
Measurement
RSAVu Analysis Software W-CDMA, HSUPA. HSDPA, GSM/EDGE, CDMA2000
Flexible OFDM Analysis
(Opt. 22)
Channel Power, Adjacent Channel Power, Multicarrier
Adjacent Channel Power/Leakage Ratio, Occupied
Bandwidth, xdB Bandwidth, dBm/Hz Marker, dBc/Hz
Marker, Spectrum Emissions Mask
RF IQ vs. Time, Power vs. Time, Frequency vs. Time,
Phase vs. Time, CCDF, Peak-to-Average Ratio
Up to 20 frequency ranges, user-selected detectors
(Peak, Average, QP), filters (RBW, CISPR, MIL), and
VBW in each range. Linear or Log frequency scale.
Measurements and violations in absolute power or
relative to a carrier. Up to 999 violations identified in
tabular form for export in .CSV format
% Amplitude Modulation (+Peak, –Peak, RMS, Mod.
Depth)
Frequency Modulation (±Peak, +Peak to –Peak, RMS,
Peak-Peak/2, Frequency Error)
Phase Modulation (±Peak, RMS, +Peak to –Peak)
Carrier Power, Frequency Error, Modulation Frequency,
Modulation Parameters (±Peak, Peak-Peak/2, RMS),
SINAD, Modulation Distortion, S/N, THD, TNHD
Phase Noise vs. Frequency Offset
Offsetrange10Hzto1GHz. MeasuresCarrierPower,
Frequency Error, RMS Phase Noise, Integrated Jitter,
Residual FM
ured Frequency, Settling Time from last settled
Meas
uency, Settling Time from last settled phase,
freq
tling Time from Trigger. Automatic or manual
Set
erence frequency selection. User-adjustable
ref
surement bandwidth, averaging, and smoothing.
mea
s/Fail Mask Testing with 3 user-settable zones
Pas
Average On Power, Peak Power, Average Transmitted
Power, Pulse W idth, 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
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
OFDM Analysis for WLAN 802.11a/g/j/p and WiM AX
802.16-2004
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Spectrum Analyzers — RSA6000 Series
Time-correlated, multidomain views provide a new level of insight into design or
operational problems not possible with conventional analysis solutions. Here, ACLR and
Vector Modulation Quality (Opt. 21) are performed on 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.
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spectrum display.
Phase noise and jitter measurements (Opt. 11) adds value to your RSA6000 Series by
replacing a conventional phase noise tester for many applications. Phase noise can be
measured at carrier offsets up to 1 GHz, and internal phase noise is automatically reduced
by optimizing acquisition bandwidths and attenuator settings for each carrier offset for
maximum dynamic range. For less critical measurements, speed optimization may be
applied for faster results. Typical residual phase noise of –132 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset,
0 GHz carrier frequency gives sufficient measurement margin for many applications.
Settling time measurements (Opt. 12) are easy and automated. The user can select
measurement bandwidth, tolerance bands, reference f requency (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 Signal Analysis package (Opt. 20) offers over 20 automated pulse parameter
calculations on every pulse. Easily validate designs with measurements of peak power,
pulse width rise time, ripple, droop, overshoot, and pulse-to-pulse phase. Gain insight into
linear FM chirp quality with measurements such as Impulse Response and Phase Error.
A pulse train (upper left) is seen with automatic calculation of pulse width and impulse
response (lower right). A detailed view of the Impulse Response is seen in the lower left,
and a DPX
®
display monitors the spectrum on the upper right.
Advanced Triggers and Swept DPX combines the revolutionary DPX Density™ Trigger
with the ability to trigger on runt pulses and apply time qualification to any trigger. The
runt trigger seen here can be used to track down nonconforming pulses in a pulse train,
greatly reducing time to insight. Time qualification can be used to separate ranging pulses
from higher resolution pulses in a radar signal, or trigger only on signals that remain on
longer than a specified time.
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Datasheet
Characteristics
Advanced Triggers and Swept DPX re-invents the way swept spectrum analysis is done,
and is included in the base instrument. The DPX engine collects hundreds of thousands
of spectrums per second over a 110 MHz bandwidth. Users can now sweep the DPX
across the full input range of the RSA6000 Series, up to 20 GHz. In the time a traditional
spectrum analyzer has captured one spectrum, the RSA6000 Series has captured orders
of magnitude more spectrums. This new level of performance reduces the chance of
missing time-interleaved and transient signals during broadband searches.
Frequency Rel
Characteristic
Frequency Range
ated
Description
9 kHz to 20 GHz (RSA6120B)
9 kHz to 14 GHz (RSA6114B)
9 kHz to 6.2 GHz (RSA6106B)
Center Frequency Setting
0.1 Hz
Resolution
Frequency Marker
±(RE × MF + 0.001 × Span + 2) Hz
Readout Accuracy
RE
MF
Reference Frequency Error
Marker Frequency (Hz)
Span Accuracy ±0.3% (Auto mode)
Reference Frequency
Initial accuracy at cal
Aging per day
Aging per year
Aging per 10 years
–7
(after 10 minute warm-up)
1×10
–9
(after 30 days of operation)
1×10
–8
(first year of operation)
5×10
–7
(after 10 years of operation)
3×10
Temperature drift 2 × 10–8(0 to 50 °C)
Cumulative error
4×10–7(within 10 years after calibration, typical)
(temperature + aging)
Reference Output Level >0 dBm (internal reference selected)
Reference Output Level
(Loopthrough)
External Reference Input
Frequencies
External Reference Input
Frequency Accuracy
0 dB nominal gain from Ext Ref In to Ref Output,
+15 dBm max output
1 to 25 MHz (1 MHz steps) + 1.2288 MHz, 4.8 MHz,
19.6608 MHz, 31.07 MHz
Must be within ±3 × 10–7of a valid listed input
frequency
Spurious < –80 dBc within 100 kHz offset to avoid on-screen
spurious
Input level range –10 dBm to +6 dBm
DPX Spectrograms provide gap-free spectral monitoring for up to days at a time.
60,000 traces can be recorded and reviewed, with resolution per line adjustable from
110 μs to 6400 s.
Performance You Can Count On
Depend on Tektronix to provide you with performance you can count on. In
addition to industry-leading service and support, this product comes backed
ne-year warranty as standard.
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Trigger Related
Characteristic
Description
Trigger Modes Free Run, Triggered, FastFrame
Trigger Event Source RF Input, Trigger 1 (Front Panel), Trigger 2 (Rear
Panel), Gated, Line
Trigger Types
Power (Std.), Frequency Mask (Opt. 52), Frequency
Edge, DPX Density, Runt, Time Qualified
Trigger Setting Trigger position settable from 1 to 99% of total
acquisition length
Trigger Combinational
Logic
Trigger Actions
Trigger 1 AND Trigger 2 / Gate may be defined as a
trigger event
Save acquisition and/or save picture on trigger
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