Tektronix has enhanced hardware and software in its RSA6000 series spectrum analysers to deliver improved diagnostic capability and faster time-to-solution using triggering technology and real-time signal analysis. An increasing need for combining digital computing and RF technologies has introduced new analysis challenges, including broadband transients, digital-signal-processing errors and "runt" pulses. All these signals are becoming more complex and time-consuming to troubleshoot using traditional analysers, which are equipped with narrow filters and slow spectrum-update rates. Elusive transients can cause intermittent failures that are unacceptable in high-reliability applications, and these interferers and hostile signals often overlap in time and frequency with allowed transmissions, so they are difficult to separate. Featuring advanced time, amplitude, and DPX trigger functions combined with swept DPX, this series now enables faster discovery and capture of these intermittent and rapidly changing signals. The improved broad-sweep capability of the spectrum analyser allows quick detection of signals of interest and enables the DPX engine to collect hundreds of thousands of spectra per second over a 110MHz bandwidth. With this enhancement, it is possible sweep the DPX across the full input range, up to 14GHz, reducing the risk of missing time-interleaved and transient signals during broadband searches.
