RIGOL Technologies announces a significant addition to its portfolio of RF test instrumentation with the RSA5000 Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer, a complete analysis package for engineers developing and integrating today's wireless technologies. The RSA5000 is available and shipping now.
The RSA5000 combines the power of a high performance, swept spectrum analyzer with superior real-time capability unmatched in this product category. Available in 3.2 and 6.5 GHz models, all RSA5000 series analyzers provide resolution bandwidth (RBW) down to 1 Hz, a noise floor as low as −165 dBm and a full span sweep as fast as 1 ms. The analyzer features up to 40 MHz of real-time bandwidth, a minimum probability of intercept (POI) of 7.45 µs, seven visualization modes and powerful triggering capability.
Unlike most analyzers in this class, RIGOL proudly specifies its probability of intercept performance. The RIGOL RSA5000 takes 146,484 FFTs per second, providing a minimum 100 percent POI of 7.45 µs. This leading performance allows users to confidently capture pulsing, hopping and fast transient signals as short as 7.45 µs and display accurate power 100 percent of the time.
The RSA5000 provides seven rich data views, allowing engineers to visualize the most complex RF environments. Density displays help to see time-varying signals and resolve hidden and superimposed signals in the same frequency band. Spectogram displays allow users to evaluate changes in signal behavior over time, especially useful in identifying hopping patterns and characterizing PLLs. Power versus time displays show the RF power for the real-time span over a user-defined time span, helping measure the duration and timing of pulsing signals and characterizing signals with amplitude modulation, such as ASK.
The RIGOL RSA5000 utilizes a quad-core processor and is built on the Linux operating system. Its flexible user interface allows customers a choice in how they interact with the instrument. It has a 10.1 in. capacitive touch display, supports a keyboard and mouse or utilizes traditional softkey and knob control. An HDMI output enables using a large external display, and USB/LAN support allows easy networking, programming, remote control and data sharing.
Patrick André of André Consulting Inc., said, "RIGOL’s RSA5000 Series brings the power of real-time analysis into the traditional sweeping analyzer. More than simply adding speed to a measurement, the RSA5000 provides an analysis and troubleshooting tool which can capture and help identify transient signals which are otherwise very difficult to measure."
Mike Rizzo, general manager of RIGOL North America:
"Engineers integrating Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other modern RF technologies are confronted with complex challenges like frequency hopping signals, channel conflict and spectrum interference. The RIGOL RSA5000 Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer brings the dimension of time to RF analysis, making it easier to monitor and characterize these complex RF systems.
"The RSA5000 is really a transformational product. We are delivering a high performance swept spectrum analyzer with category leading real-time capabilities starting at just $7,999. We are delivering significantly greater value to customers striving to integrate RF technology into their IoT designs."