Q: What's broad, quiet, wide, fast, flexible, easy and stable? - A: Agilent E5071C Network Analyzer!

Q: What's broad, quiet, wide, fast, flexible, easy and stable?
A: Agilent E5071C Network Analyzer!

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Tutorial: Option 303 - Get 7 function Generators in 1! For N5171B, N5172B, N5181B and N5182B X-Series signal generators. Demo with N9030A and MSO8104A

This  video reviews the Agilent N5171B EXG analog signal generator's option 303 multi-function generator and how it is set up with N9030A PXA signal analyzer (embedded with 89600 VSA software) and an MSO8104A Oscilloscope to simultaneously analyze a CHIRP radar signal (pulse+FM) from impairment signals of AM noise, AM drift and Frequency drift.
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R&S FSU26 Spectrum Analyzer is simply "The Best."

R&S FSU26 Spectrum Analyzer is simply "The Best."

Being the best means the fastest, most accurate, highest dynamic range, low phase noise, level accuracy, and resolution bandwidth. That's best! If your serious about manufacturing wireless, then your serious about FSU26.

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Agilent E4404B spectrum analyzer sales and repairs at BRL Test - Low Prices!

Agilent E4404B spectrum analyzer sales and repairs at BRL Test. Low prices on premium quality used E4404B's. Freshly calibrated, certified and guaranteed to work accurately right out of the box - no worries. Purchase easy knowing that your full warranty is backed up by our in house repair engineering department . Our military trained techs repair E4404B's at our world class lab. We absolutely know Agilent spectrum analyzers.  Ships worldwide from Orlando, FL Florida.

Review of FSVR Real Time Spectrum Analyzer by R&S - Capable of locating and drilling down on ultra short sporadic interference events yet maintaining conventional wideband analysis. Video

The R&S FSVR is the first spectrum analyzer to simultaneously capture 2 modes of analysis

1. Conventional Hetrodyne Spectrum Analysis
2. Real Time

Based on the FSV, the FSVR has the pedigree as the markets fastest and most accurate conventional spectrum analyzer.

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The real time mode is what makes the FSVR exceptional.  By seamlessly grabbing RF signals in the time domain and converting them to the frequency domain, it is capable of locating and drilling down on ultra short sporadic interference events yet maintaining conventional wideband analysis.  Talk about having your cake and eating it too.  See the video and be amazed!   

8753D Measuring a Device in the Time Domain (Option 010 Only)

Measuring a Device in the Time Domain (Option 010 )

The HP 8753D Option 010 allows you to measure the time domain response of a device. Time domain analysis is useful for isolating a device problem in time or in distance. Time and distance are related by the velocity factor of your device under test. The analyzer measures the frequency response of your device and uses an inverse Fourier transform to convert the data to the time domain.

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Time domain analysis allows you to mathematically remove individual parts of the time domain response to see the undesirable responses...(read more in the Agilent 8753D users manual starting on page 2-68  )

Agilent 8722ES Vector Network Analyzer VNA 40GHz - BRL Test

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Agilent 8722ES Vector Network Analyzer VNA 40GHz

The Agilent 8722ES network analyzer is a 40 GHz,  S-Parameter VNA that makes quick work of magnitude and phase measurements both forward and reverse.  

No long waits for data transfer with this race horse. Sweep fast! 

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Review of Agilent E4440A

Roger Allan | Electronic Design

Advanced performance in sophisticated test and measurement equipment generally comes at the price of complexity of use. Adding more features and capabilities to an instrument and its front panel often requires that users take a lot of time to just figure out how to get the most out of that instrument. But a new milestone in both performance and ease of use has been achieved with the E4440A spectrum analyzer from Agilent Technologies, the first in the company's Performance Series Analyzer (PSA) family (Fig. 1).

Digital technology was used to give the instrument what the company claims is "unparalleled performance, enhanced flexibility, and modern connectivity." Because of its flexibility, the E4440A can be employed by a wide variety of designers, from novice to expert, across a number of disciplines like aerospace, communications, R&D, and manufacturing, for both general and highly specialized signal-analysis purposes. The instrument's combination of speed and performance lets designers characterize signals that they couldn't even "see" before. And, it makes possible measurements that are much quicker and more accurate.

Speed, accuracy, dynamic range, resolution, and detection capabilities have all been optimized to what Agilent says are "industry firsts." Without using conventional LC and crystal filters that can slow signals down, the PSA platform doubles the speed of many measurements, permitting faster spur searches than other commercially available spectrum analyzers.

For example, the 30-Hz to 26.5-GHz analyzer features wide-ranging sweep speeds. It can measure very slow sweep speeds to capture intermittent signals. Zero-band sweep speeds range from 1 µs to 6000 seconds. For spans greater than 10 Hz, sweep speeds range from 2 ms to 2000 seconds. Users can trigger the sweeps with video, free-run, line, and external signals, and the trigger can be delayed up to 500 ms.

Using digital signal processing, the instrument offers 0.35-dB absolute-amplitude accuracy versus the typical 1.5 dB of other instruments, and an impressive 0.2-dB linearity over a 100-dB range. It removes log-fidelity errors almost entirely (0.2 dB total), significantly reduces bandwidth-switching er-rors (0.05 dB), and completely eliminates IF gain errors (0 dB). Therefore, users can operate effectively with closer tolerances and shrink guard bands.

In addition, the E4440A features a distortion-free dynamic range of 113 dB. This is critical for making adjacent-channel pow-er measurements in the cellular telecommunications industry.

The E4440A provides optimized phase-noise capability. Designers can set the analyzer to improve phase noise in the close-in mode to less than 30 kHz. This is particularly useful for identifying low-level signals otherwise hidden under phase-noise skirts. Or, users can choose the auto mode, which is more than 30 kHz, to let the instrument select the phase-noise setting at an optimal speed.

Another important parameter for the E4440A is flexibility, as this allows customizable measurements for both novice and experienced users. Measurements may be fine-tuned with 160 resolution bandwidth settings. Also, users can maximize the usable dynamic range with a 2-dB step attenuator and balance close-in or far-out phase noise (Fig. 2). Note that the industry standard for step attenuation is 10 dB.

Broad and easy connectivity are featured by the E4440A, minimizing the time wasted when getting data into and out of the instrument. The E4440A enables screen and data capture with popular Microsoft applications, and it can connect to LANs for data transfers. Plug-and-play drivers are available for Agilent VEE and other popular test-automation software, in-cluding LabView and LabWindows. Furthermore, the instrument supports popular PCL3 and PCL5 printers using a parallel port.

Unlike the previous-generation Agilent spectrum analyzers based on a 68000 CISC processor, the PSA line of analyzers is based on a RISC processor. By extensive use of digital and DSP technology, Agilent's designers were able to shrink the analyzer's eight internal pc boards from previous-generation units to just one.

A key element in the instrument's performance capability is a 3-GHz preamplifier that improves the digital average-noise level (DANL) to an impressive −153 dBm over a 10-MHz to 3-GHz frequency range, a figure that will be improved to −167 dBm. The preamplifier first feeds its signals to a sophisticated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that actually acts as two VCOs, and then onto a 14-bit, 30-Msample/s analog-to-digital converter (Fig. 3).