X-Series Signal Analyzer Updates

(w/ Firmware rev. A.14.xx)

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Agilent Technologies

Available May, 2014

Agenda

• What’s new with FW A.14 launch?

– Platform new features and customer benefits

– Measurement app enhancements

• Win BIGGER against competition in mid-range

• Where to find help

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New platform features

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Highest freq. coverage

• External mixing (Opt EXM) added on MXA

• Covers up to 110 GHz w/Agilent smart mixer and 1.1 THz w/ VDI extender

Best sensitivity

• Noise floor extension (Opt NFE) on M/EXA

• Up to 9 dB DANL improvement

• USB smart preamps (U7227) for further DANL improvement

Highest long-term

freq. accuracy

• Atomic freq. reference (AFR: J7203A)

• Up to 100x better long-term freq. stability than precision freq. reference (PFR)

World’s fastest power meas.

• Fast power (Opt FP2) on P/M/EXA (w/ Opt B40)

• For ACPR, band power, power density, …

FW. Rev. A.14.00 or later required

Pre-AFS – Feb. 1, 2014

AFS – May 1, 2014

SHP – May, 2014

Web Go-live – May 1, 2014

See backup slides for more details

Measurement apps: new and enhanced

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Leadership in LTE-Advanced

• N9080B/N9082B (LTE-A FDD/TDD)

• FTD-258 (Mar. ‘14) for details

Winning in WLAN

• N/W9077A-4FP to improve EVM and speed for 802.11ac

• FTD-262 (Apr. ‘14) for details

Best for general-purpose

• N9063A (Analog demod):

• better and more hard specs

• 8901A/B migration

• N9069A (NF):

• Supports USB smart preamp

FW. Rev. A.14.00 or later required

Growing Millimeter-wave Applications

• Backhaul radio systems

• Automotive Radar

• Early next-generation wireless research (“5G”)

• 802.11ad WiGig

• Aerospace/Defense

Radar

Secure Communication systems

Highest freq. coverage

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Option EXM • Available only on

ALL new N9020A MXA ship w/ FW

Rev. A. 14.00 or later

• A 3.5 mm (f) connector providing triplex of

LO-out/IF-in/DC bias

• Support following external mixers

Agilent M1970 smart mixers

11970 legacy mixers (11970K excluded)

OML mixers

VDI mixers

Farran mixers

• Reference Price: $2,805

External Mixing (N9020A-EXM)

External mixers supported by N9020A-EXM

Go beyond 26.5 GHz, up to 1.1 THz

Adding Option EXM on MXA

Highest freq. coverage

Upgradability of Option EXM

• EXM upgrade only available on the MXA w/ SN

prefix ≥ MY/SG/US5233 (i.e. with Option EP2)

introduced Aug. 2013

• There are two EXM upgrade options depending on

MXA’s vintages 1. N9020AK-EXM ($3,305) for SN prefix between MY/SG/US5233 and

MY/SG/US5328

2. N9020AK-HL6 ($5,100) for SN prefix ≥MY/SG/US5328

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for newer MXA (SN prefix ≥ MY/SG/US5233)

Highest freq. coverage

NFE goes to mid-range signal analyzers

• Introduce NFE (2nd Gen.) to MXA and EXA by May 2014

• Up to 9-dB DANL improvement (specs to be set); longer delivery

lead-time expected at launch (~12 week SRT)

• An option (N9020A/N9010A-NFE) with price associated (Price:

$5,000)

• User upgradable (license-only) to the existing MXA/EXA’s

(N9020AK/10AK-NFE @ price $5,000)

• Shown as “N90x0A-NF2” in “Show system” license list

• Requires firmware Rev. A.14.00 or later

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MXA

EXA

For ALL vintages of MXA/EXA!

Best sensitivity

How well does NFE work on MXA/EXA?

• The preliminary result shows significant DANL

improvement:

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>9 dB

• This specific EXA

shows >9 dB DANL

improvement

• NFE “On” needs

more average to

reduce the noise floor

fluctuation

• Specifications will

only be available 2~3

months after launch

(Long delivery lead-

time @ launch)

NFE: Off

NFE: On

Best sensitivity

U7227x USB Preamps

Model Frequency Range Price (preliminary)

U7227A 10 MHz to 4 GHz ~$4k

U7227C 100 MHz to 26.5

GHz

~$7k

U7227F 2 to 50 GHz ~$13k

Noise Fig ~ 5dB.

Gain >17 dB (makes N Fig of SA

negligible).

USB provides power to Preamp, and reads

factory-cal data from flash. Data includes

gain, noise fig, and S-parameter data.

“X” SA app uses amp as “remote front

end”; gain data read over USB to correct

displayed abs-amp vs frequency.

“X” N Fig app uses amp to improve noise

figure; noise data read over USB to support

“Internal Cal”.

Best sensitivity

Int. preamp off

Int. preamp on

Ext. preamp on

Highest long-term frequency accuracy

Key Applications: • Installation and maintenance of BTS • Low-cost alternative to primary house reference

Key Customers: • NTT Docomo • Ericsson • Huawei • US Navy …

Why it’s important? Extremely high frequency accuracy,

stability and timing stability ensures the most precise synchronizations among multiple radio sub-systems

Highest long-term

freq. accuracy

Atomic Frequency Reference

– The Atomic Frequency Reference (AFR) is a cesium-based

atomic clock that PXA/MXA/EXA can use to discipline

(adjust) the Internal 10 MHz Reference and effectively

increasing the frequency accuracy.

– Great alternative to a Primary Reference Standard which

many labs and manufacturing facilities do not have.

– Model Number: J7203A

Highest long-term

freq. accuracy

No impact on phase noise!

To “Ref in”

on analyzer

USB power from

analyzer

Fast Power (Option FP2)

• World’s Fastest Power Measurements!

Power measurements include Channel power

Adjacent channel power

Band density

Occupied bandwidth

X-dB measurement

Available on PXA, MXA, EXA

Noise corrections included

Option B40 (40 MHz analysis BW) required

FW rev. A.14 or later required

Reference price: $5,000

• N90x0AK-FP2

• Price: $5,000

• Opt B40 required

• License only

World’s fastest power meas.

Fast Power (Option FP2)

• Customer Problem

Existing LXI-based test system: ACP Measurements

Blazing fast power measurements: 76% Reduction in Test Time on

this specific customer case

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What’s New for N9063A Analog Demod

Tx Attack/Release view: see RF envelope & FM demod on same T-axis

Marker Table on AF Spectrum: easily quantify multi-tone case

Analog Out: eliminate clipping/scaling/wrapping problems for FM & PM

Wide BW: support demod to 160 MHz BW

Long Demod Waveform:

up to 3.6 MSa, or >100 sec at 25 kHz BW

Improved many specs

For N9063A installed base customers the

N9063A-AFP may be required for new

enhancements

Migrate 8901A/B to X-Series

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8901A/B

modulation analyzer X-Series with

N9063A analog

demod app

Filters: add many post-demod filters; modify to mimic

HP 89xx

Ref Ratio User Entry: manually enter reference for

FM Hum & Noise (like 8901)

SNR: emulate HP 8903 SNR feature

Warranted hard specs: add more

The following new enhancements

on N9063A particularly help to

accelerate the 890x to X-Series

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New Minor Enhancements Update (- MEU) Option

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Apps Model # Price

(US$)

GSM/EDGE N/W9071A

W-CDMA N/W9073A

TD-SCDMA N/W9079A

Bluetooth N/W9081A

Analog Demod. N/W9063A

VXA N/W9064A

Phase Noise N/W9068A

Noise Figure N/W9069A

Digital Cable TV N/W6152A

• MCD-SA introduces an unified option of

MEU to all existing applications with

minor enhancement updates

• For install-based customers, when they

need to upgrade to the latest application

SW with enhancements, they just order

-MEU in hundred $

• For new buy customers, they always can

have the latest application features in the

SW

• In SA-A.14, total 9 applications move to the new structure

• Enhanced feature description will be listed on the application webpage with revision number

Pricing summary

Model Option Description Ref.

Price

(US$)

Notes

N9020A/AK-NFE Noise floor extension Upgradable to all MXA

N9010A/AK-NFE Noise floor extension Upgradable to all EXA

N9020A-EXM External mixing

N9020AK-EXM Upgrade external mixing Serial prefix between 5233

and 5328

N9020AK-HL6 Upgrade external mixing serial prefix ≥ 5328

N90x0A/AK-FP2 Fast Power, up to 40 MHz bandwidth Requires Opt B40

N90x0A/AK-SF2 Security features, prohibit saving results N90x0A/AK-SF2

J7203A Atomic frequency reference For P/M/EXA

U7227A USB “smart” preamp, 10 MHz to 4 GHz For P/M/E/CXA

U7227C USB “smart” preamp, 0.1 to 26.5 GHz For P/M/E/CXA

U7227A USB “smart” preamp, 2 to 50 GHz For P/M/E/CXA

Source control (Opt ESC) to support extn’l mixing

(Opt EXM)

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• Makes mmW scalar stimulus-response tests beyond 50 GHz

possible

Enables the P/M/mmW EXA to control the external source with frequency

extender (eg. OML, VDI module) for high-frequency stimulus

Enables the P/M/mmW EXA with Opt EXM and an external mixer (eg. Agilent

smart mixer) to receive the high-frequency responses

Incident signal

Reflected signal

Transmitted signal

An example of measured result @ 85 GHz

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LAN/USB/GPIB

DUT

Freq.

extender External

mixer

PSG X-Series w/ Opts

EXM and ESC*

USB

IF/LO

RF

Trigger-in Trigger-out Trigger-in Trigger-out

Wave-guide

Setup for mmW scalar stimulus-response tests

*: FW. A.14 or later required for X-Series AS

Recap- XA14 Major Enhancements

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Model/Opt Description PXA MXA EXA CXA

N9080B/82B LTE-Advanced New New New -

-EXM Ext. mixing New * -

-NFE NFE2 implementation + New New -

N9068A Analog demod + + + +

U7227A/C/F Smart preamp support New New New New

J7203A Atomic Freq. Reference New New New -

-FP2 Fast ACPR power meas’t New New New -

-W7X Win7 New

-ESC External source control to

support EXM

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New: Newly added

: Existing

+: Enhance on existing

-: Not available

To be introduced May 2014

*: for mmW EXA only

X-Series Signal Analyzer Portfolio

EXA 10 Hz to 44 GHz

MXA 10 Hz to 26.5 GHz

Sep 06

Sep 07

Oct 09

PXA 3 Hz to 50 GHz

Perf

orm

ance

Price

89600B VSA software Premier signal analysis & troubleshooting

MXE 20 Hz to 44 GHz

CISPR 16-1-1 2010

Compliant EMI Receiver

CXA 9 kHz to 26.5 GHz

Oct 09

Master the Essentials

Balance the Challenges

Accelerate in Wireless

Drive your Evolution

Investment continues!

New N9080B/N9082B LTE-Advanced FDD/TDD

Analyze signal and multi-carrier LTE/LTE-

Advanced FDD/TDD signals

Downlink and uplink analysis in a single option

Support carrier aggregation of up to 5

contiguous/non-contiguous components carriers

support for uplink & downlink:

For TDD, all DL/UL and special subframe length

configurations

One-button support transmitter characteristic

measurements for Base station and User

equipment

Requires Win 7 OS on PXA, MXA or EXA signal

analyzers; does NOT support Win XP OS.

Maximum analysis bandwidth required – B25

(25 MHz). EVM measurements are sequential

i.e. demods one CC at a time & max BW of a

CC is 20 MHz.

• N9080B-2FP – LTE-Advanced FDD

• Requires N9080A-1FP or N9080B-1FP

• N9082B-2FP – LTE-Advanced TDD

• Requires N9082A-1FP or N9082B-1FP

• Price for option 2FP - $4.5k

For more information please Contact:

Martha Zemede (T345-8307) or

To learn SA_258 Recording module

on March-FTD

N9077A WLAN Measurement Application Updates

Make multi-burst capture and averaging for modulation analysis to increase EVM

measurement speed up to 30%

Improve RF input range and EVM floor to

win completion with FSW

Provide unique IQ impairments per

subcarrier features per customer requests

• gain imbalance

• quadrature skew

802.11a/n: Mask updates per recent

standards changes

802.11p 5 MHz BW support

(10, 20 MHz BW already supported)

• N9077A-4FP – 802.11ac FDD

• Requires N9077A-2FP (802.11 a/b/g)

• Requires N9077A-3FP (802.11n)

• Free Upgrade for Install-based customers

For more information please Contact:

John Harmon (T577-3983) or

To learn SA_262 Recording module

on April-FTD