RSA5015B

Press release CN Rood-Tektronix RSA5000 series The RSA5015B’s will be used to monitor and manage the electromagnetic spectrum of radio frequencies. The special real time technology employed by the Tektronix RSA5015B allows to search for, and find, violations in the RF spectrum with a speed and ease of use that has never been seen before.

With the explosive growth of wireless devices, the detection and classification of signals in both the licensed and unlicensed spectrum is an ever-growing issue. Whether looking for wanted signals or unwanted interferers, the customer needs the confidence that the spectrum analyser used has 100% probability of intercept in a given frequency range.

New technology

The RSA5000B Series replaces conventional high-performance signal analysers, offering the measurement confidence and functionality for everyday tasks. A +17 dBm TOI and -155 dBm/Hz DANL at 2 GHz gives the user the dynamic range he/she expects for challenging spectrum analysis measurements. All analysis is fully preselected. Thanks to this new technology, the user never has to compromise between dynamic range and analysis bandwidth by ‘switching out the pre-selector’.

Don’t miss any signal

The RSA5000B Series will help the customer to easily discover signals that other signal analysers may miss. The revolutionary DPX® spectrum display offers an intuitive live color view of signal
transients changing over time in the frequency domain, giving immediate confidence in the stability of the signal, or instantly displaying a fault when it occurs. Once a problem is discovered with DPX®, the RSA5000 Series spectrum analysers 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.

DPX® spectrum processing

The patented DPX® spectrum processing engine brings live analysis of transient events to spectrum analysers. Performing up to 390.625 frequency transforms per second, transients of a minimum event duration of 2.7 μs in length are displayed in the frequency domain. This is orders of magnitude faster than swept analysis techniques. Events can be color coded by rate of occurrence onto a bitmapped display, providing unparalleled insight into transient signal behaviour. The DPX spectrum processor can be swept over the entire frequency range of the instrument,
enabling broadband transient capture previously unavailable in any spectrum analyser. In applications that require only spectral information, DPX provides gap-free spectral recording, replay,
and analysis of up to 60,000 spectral traces. Spectrum recording resolution is variable from 5.12 µs to 6400 s per line.