Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced several enhancements to two of its X-Series signal analyzers, the midrange MXA and general-purpose EXA, including improvements to phase noise. According to the company, the new improvements will help accelerate searches for spurious signals in the testing of transmitters, active antenna arrays and power amplifiers, and allow engineers to more precisely characterize the frequency stability of oscillators and synthesizers.
Phase noise in the MXA signal analyzer has been improved by 10 dB or more for close-in and pedestal offset frequencies, while phase-noise performance in the EXA signal analyzer is up to 5 dB better across wide offset frequencies.
“The MXA enhancements are an important complement to our recently introduced options for 160-MHz analysis bandwidth and real-time spectrum analysis,” Jim Curran, marketing manager of Agilent’s Microwave Communications Division, said. “Together, these capabilities can help our customers ensure that their devices will transmit accurately and deliver excellent quality of service.”
New capabilities in three of the measurement applications available for X-Series signal analyzers are also now available, the company said. The N9069A noise figure measurement application now includes features to support measurements of multi-stage converters, multipliers and dividers, while the N9080A (FDD) and N9082A (TDD) LTE measurement applications now support multimedia broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) signals with mixed cyclic-prefix subframe structures. In addition, the N9083A multi-standard radio measurement application has been enhanced to support noncontiguous test configurations as defined in 3GPP Release 10.
