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* Custom OFDM analysis -- enables analysis of proprietary or pre-standard signals. Users configure the 89600B’s proven OFDM analysis tools using a straightforward file and menu-based approach to signal parameter entry, eliminating the “is this measurement right?” question often created with custom tools.
* Enhanced LTE analysis -- supports the evolving
LTE standard. Engineers can now view pre-antenna beam forming signals, evaluate the lobes and nulls of the composite signal and compare them to antenna-range tests with a new antenna-pattern trace.
The Agilent 89600B software runs on a PC or inside PC-based instruments. The software works with spectrum analyzers, signal analyzers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and modular instrument systems, as well as simulation software. With this flexibility, engineers can evaluate signals anywhere in their block diagram including analog and digital baseband; IF, RF and microwave; narrowband to ultra-wideband; SISO; and MIMO.
In system applications, the software can be controlled via the familiar remote SCPI programming language -- as well as.NET and .COM.
Agilent’s new 89600B replaces the existing 89600 VSA software. The 89600B will be available to order on Dec. 1 at a starting price of $10,700. Existing 89600 VSA customers with a current subscription service will automatically receive the 89600B software. The 89600 subscription service starts at $2,200 and is available to order until May 31, 2011.
Agilent Technologies is the measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. The company’s 18,500 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009.
M/A-COM Tech Asia L 2.5 To 4 GHz Core Chip Has It All
The highly integrated XZ1001-BD consists of integrated transmit/receive switches, low noise amplifier, 6-bit phase shifter, 6-bit attenuator and driver amplifier.
M/A-COM Tech Asia introduced recently a 2.5 to 4 GHz gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) core chip, which consists of integrated transmit/receive switches, a low noise amplifier (LNA), a 6-bit phase shifter, a 6-bit attenuator and a driver amplifier.
The XZ1001-BD core chip features compensated on-chip gate bias and delivers 33 dB transmit/ receive gain, 20 dBm transmit/receive P1dB, and 2.5 dB receive noise figure. The XZ1001-BD is well suited for both military and weather phased array radar applications and satellite communications systems.
“Our highly integrated S-band core chip is comparable to our X-band core chip, the XZ1002- BD, only shifted down in frequency for 2.5-4 GHz applications,” says Peter J. Hales, Senior Director, M/A-COM Tech Asia.
M/A-COM Tech Asia performs 100% on-wafer RF, DC and output power testing on the XZ1001-BD, as well as 100% visual inspection to MIL-STD-883 method 2010. The chip has surface passivation to
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