Product Description

Tektronix RSA5000 Series Spectrum Analyzer

The RSA5000 Series Real Time Signal Analyzers replace conventional instruments, offering the measurement confidence and functionality you demand for everyday tasks. The RSA5000 Series offers industry-leading real time specifications and includes best minimum signal duration for 100% probability of intercept and best real time dynamic range. With the RSA5000 Series instruments, 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.

Key performance specifications

+17 dBm 3rd order intercept at 2 GHz
±0.3 dB absolute amplitude accuracy to 3 GHz
Displayed average noise level: –142 dBm/Hz at 26.5 GHz, –157 dBm/Hz at 2 GHz and –150 dBm/Hz at 10 kHz
Internal Preamp available: DANL of -156 dBm/Hz at 26.5 GHz, -167 dBm/Hz at 2 GHz
Phase noise: –113 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz and –134 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz carrier frequency, 10 kHz offset
High-speed sweeps with high resolution and low noise: 1 GHz sweeps at 10 kHz RBW in <1 second
Real time spurious free dynamic range of 80 dB with HD options

Key features

Reduce Time-to-Fault and increase design confidence with Real-time Signal Processing
* Up to 3,125,000 spectrums per second, enables 100% probability of intercept for signals of 0.434 μs
* Swept DPX spectrum enables unprecedented signal discovery over full frequency range
* Advanced DPX including swept DPX, gap-free DPX spectrograms, and DPX zero span with real-time amplitude, frequency, or phase
Triggers zero in on the Problem
* DPX density™ trigger on single occurrences as brief as 0.434 μs in frequency domain and distinguish between continuous signals vs infrequent events
* Advanced time-qualified, runt, and frequency-edge triggers act on complex signals as brief as 20 ns
Capture the widest and deepest signals
* 25, 40, 85, 125, or 165 MHz acquisition bandwidths
* Spurious-free dynamic range of 80 dB over the entire acquisition bandwidth with HD options
* Acquire more than 5 seconds at 165 MHz bandwidth
Wideband preselection filter provides image free measurements in entire analysis bandwidth up to 165 MHz
More standard analysis than you expect in an everyday tool
* Measurements including channel power, ACLR, CCDF, OBW/EBW, spur search, EMI detectors
* Amplitude, frequency, phase vs. time, DPX spectrum, and spectrograms
* Correlated multi-domain displays
Performance options for best real time and dynamic range and analysis options offer added value
* High dynamic range options offer unmatched 80 dBc spurious-free analysis in the widest acquisition bandwidth
* High performance DPX offers industry-leading minumum signal duration for 100% probability of intercept
* Optional software applications to add dedicated measurements for specific applications and standards
* AM/FM/PM modulation and audio measurements (Opt. 10)
* Phase noise and jitter (Opt. 11)
* Automated settling time measurements (frequency and phase) (Opt. 12)
* More than 30 pulse measurements, acquisition of more than 200,000 pulses possible for post analysis and cumulative statistics. (Opt. 20)
* General purpose modulation analysis of more than 20 modulation types (Opt. 21)
* Simple and complete APCO Project 25 transmitter compliance testing and analysis for Phase 1 (C4FM) and * Phase 2 (TDMA) (Opt. 26)
* WLAN analysis for 802.11 a/b/g/j/p, 802.11n, and 802.11ac (Opts. 23, 24, 25)
* Noise figure and gain measurements (Opt. 14)
* Bluetooth® Analysis (Opt. 27 and Opt. 31)
* Manual and automatic measurement mapping plus signal strength function provides audio tone and visual indication of received signal strength (Opt. MAP)
* LTE™ FDD and TDD Base Station (eNB) Transmitter RF measurements (Opt. 28)
* Signal Classification and Survey
* EMC/EMI pre-compliance and troubleshooting (Opt. 32)

Applications

Wideband radar and pulsed RF signals
Frequency agile communications
Broadband satellite and microwave backhaul links
Education
Long Term Evolution (LTE), Cellular
EMC/EMI pre-compliance and troubleshooting

Specifications Tektronix RSA5000 Series Spectrum Analyzer

	RSA5103B	RSA5106B	RSA5115B	RSA5126B
Frequency range	1 Hz – 3 GHz	1 Hz – 6.2 GHz	1 Hz – 15 GHz	1 Hz – 26.5 GHz
Real-time acquisition bandwidth	25 MHz, 40 MHz, 85 MHz, 125 MHz, 165 MHz
Minimum Event Duration for 100% POI at 100% amplitude	2.7 μs at 165 MHz BW (0.434 us, Opt. 300) 2.8 μs at 85 MHz BW (0.551 us, Opt. 300) 3.0 μs at 40 MHz BW (0.79 us, Opt. 300) 3.2 μs at 25 MHz BW (0.915 us, Opt. 300)
SFDR (typical)	>75 dBc (25/40 MHz) >73 dBc (85/165 MHz) ≥ 80 dBc (Opts. B85HD, B125HD, B16xHD)
Trigger modes	Free run, Triggered, FastFrame
Trigger types	Power, Frequency mask, Frequency edge, DPX density, Runt, Time qualified

Frequency related

Reference frequency

Specification	Standard	Option PFR	Conditions
Initial accuracy at cal	± 1 x 10 ^-6	± 1 x 10 ^-7	After 10 minute warm-up
Aging per day	1 x 10 ^-8	1 x 10 ^-9	After 30 days of operation
First year aging (typical)	1 x 10 ^-6	7.5 x 10 ^-8	After 1 year of operation
Aging per 10 years		3 x 10 ^{– 7}	After 10 years of operation
Temperature drift	2 x 10 ^-6	1 x 10 ^-7	From 5 to 40 °C
Cumulative error (temperature + aging, typical)	3 x 10 ^-6	4 x 10 ^-7	Within 10 years after calibration