02 | Keysight | 89601B/BN-200 Basic Vector Signal Analysis, 89601B/BN-300 Hardware Connectivity, 89600 VSA Software - Technical Overview
Technical Overview
Try Before You Buy!
Basic vector signal analysis (Option 200) provides the foundation of the tools and user
interface that make up the 89600 VSA software. Explore virtually every facet of today’s
most complex signals with views of time, frequency and modulation domains. Benefit
from the flexible GUI capabilities: arbitrary arrangement and sizing of unlimited display
traces, each with unlimited markers. Powerful display formats, signal recording and play-
back, and detailed Help text provide the insight needed for analyzing signals. Use the
89600 VSA software in simulation with sink and source components providing real-time,
interactive analysis of results. Co-simulation is available with Keysight Technologies, Inc.
EEsof Advanced Design System (ADS) and SystemVue ESL as part of Option 200.
Download the 89600 VSA software
and use it free for 30 days to make
measurements with your analysis
hardware, or use our recorded demo
signals by selecting File > Recall
> Recall Demo > Signals > on the
software toolbar. Request your free
trial license today:
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Hardware connectivity (Option 300) allows the 89600 VSA software to be linked to over
40 Keysight instruments. Choose the right instrument for your application and apply
vector signal analysis across your mixed signal design. Use the 89600 VSA software for
consistent, comparable results at simulation, prototype and design-validation stages of
development.
These options work together to provide a comprehensive set of tools for demodulation
and vector signal analysis. These tools enable you to explore virtually every facet of a
signal and optimize your most advanced designs. As you assess the tradeoffs, the 89600
VSA helps you see through the complexity.
Vector signal analysis
Today’s wide-bandwidth, vector-modulated (also called complex or digitally modulated),
time-varying signals benefit greatly from the capabilities of FFT analysis and other DSP
techniques. Vector signal analysis offers fast, high-resolution spectrum measurements,
demodulation, and advanced time-domain analysis. It is especially useful for character-
izing burst, transient, or modulated signals used in communications, video, broadcast,
radar, and ultrasound imaging applications.
The 89600 VSA software is fundamentally a digital system that uses data and math-
ematical algorithms to perform analysis. All it requires is sampled data from an instru-
ment, software, or digital bus. As a larger portion of wireless designs becomes digital,
the 89600 VSA software is uniquely suited to provide signal analysis for these complex
systems.
The 89600 VSA software running on a PC uses a measurement “front-end” or data
acquisition subsystem to provide formatted sampled data. The front-end performs the
following functions: connection to the device under test, signal digitizing, signal capture
capability, and data transfer to the PC in a sequential stream of data blocks. Once the
data blocks are available, the 89600 VSA software is able to perform all vector and
modulation analysis functions.
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