Download our 13 page “Failing EMC Testing” application note to help you in your pre-compliance testing.
More than 50% of products fail EMC testing first time around. Anytime an engineer sends a new product for compliance testing, it is a shot in the dark without in-house pre-compliance testing. Failing is very expensive as not only are re-testing costs high, but project launch schedules get delayed.
Download our 13 page “Failing EMC Testing” application note to help you in your pre-compliance testing.
The Rigol Technologies RSA5000 Series of RF spectrum analyzers scan a complete frequency spectrum of 9kHz to 3.2 or 6.5 GHz with a maximum sample rate of 51.2MS/s.
They offer significant performance improvements over traditional swept spectrum analyzers with a 1ms full span sweep, an expanded vertical range to +30dBm, reduced phase noise to -108dBc/Hz, 1 Hz RBW (resolution bandwidth), and a reduced noise floor (DANL) to -165dBm. They can also be used in a traditional swept scan mode.
Offering up to 40 MHz Real-Time Bandwidth, the RSA5000 series calculate >146,000 FFTs/sec, delivering down to 7.45us for a 100% Probability of Intercept. They provide seven display modes (Normal, Density, Spectogram, Power v. Time, Density & Spectogram, PVT & Spectrum, PVT & Spectrogram) and include a Frequency Mask Trigger. The Frequency Mask Trigger is especially useful for triggering measurements of sporadic or transient events.
The flexible User Interface allows customers a choice for interacting with the units since they feature a 10.1” capacitive touch screen display with gesture support, mouse/keyboard support, as well as traditional knob and button control. Rigol calls the high-speed real-time measurement technology of these units “Ultra-Real” to describe the rapid signal acquisition and data analysis, together with various display modes that facilitate comprehensive signal interpretation.
Tracking Generator versions are also available that add a built-in signal source of 100kHz – 3.2/6.5GHz with an output range of -40dBm to 0dBm for plotting circuit or component frequency responses.
Building on the tremendous success of Rigol’s DSA800 series of swept spectrum analyzers, the RSA5000 series of analyzers offer a combination of outstanding swept spectrum performance and 40MHz real-time Bandwidth, with category leading 7.45us POI, making the RSA5000 a great choice for customers in spectrum monitoring, transmitter test, RF component characterization, and EMI applications. Customers working with hopping/channel shifting technologies in crowded ISM bands will find a real-time analyzer essential, as will customers integrating PLL technology in their designs, identifying sources of interference or characterizing rapidly pulsing applications: all will benefit from the seamless capture capabilities of the real-time spectrum analysis capability of the RSA5000 series. Real-time spectrum analyzers are essential for anyone dealing with signals that vary dynamically in amplitude or are agile in frequency: pulsed radar systems, frequency-hopping spread spectrum radios, and pulse modulated radios; multi-signal environments: ISM bands – 915 MHz, 2.4, 5.8; or unwanted signals such as unintentional or self-interference, intentional interference (jammers), and listening devices (bugs).
We will be demonstrating the new MegiQ PC-Based VNAs at the Comms Connect exhibition on 3-4 June 2015 at Southee Complex, Sydney Showground.
With the VNA0440, MegiQ has launched an affordable and compact USB driven Vector Network Analyzer. This fully bi-directional two-port VNA allows detailed impedance measurements of antennas, components and circuits, covering 400to 4000MHz, i.e. all popular communication bands for GSM-LTE, GPS, ISM, Wifi, Dect etc. An extra generator output comes in handy for characterizing 3-port devices, like splitters and hybrids. The internal, programmable bias generator with bias-Tee’s allows fully automatic parametric measurements of e.g. amplifier and varactor / PIN circuits.
“All over the world engineers work on a myriad of RF applications, but they lack tools to verify their designs”, says Roger Denker, CEO of MegiQ. “In RF development you need to verify correct tuning and matching. MegiQ makes these measurements affordable and accessible to all bench-tops.”
The VNA and the PC software were developed by RF-engineers for RF-engineers with emphasis on use in real life. With the UFL test kit and the ‘RF Sandbox’ you are up and running within 10 minutes with a series of life experiments: very instructive for the novice user and entertaining for the expert.
The UFL kit allows measuring circuits on micro-PCBs, like baluns, antennas, amplifiers. Other kits are available: WFL, SMA, balanced, including calibration tools.
PC software provides intuitive control, extensive graphing, data export and reporting. Measurements and set-ups can be stored in sessions for easy ‘Retrace-and-Compare’. The handy ‘Click-and-Match’ calculates and simulates matching circuits.
