Aeroflex has added to its PXI 3000 series of RF modular instruments with the launch of the 3036 RF digitiser module, with frequency range extending to 13GHz, for use in vector signal analysis of complex RF signals.

The 3036 is a RF digitiser operating over the band 250kHz -13GHz, with up to 90MHz wide digitised -1 dB bandwidth and 13-bit ADC resolution. It supports high speed frequency switching in less than 325µs.

It is designed to be used with a 3010 series synthesiser module to provide precision conversion of RF signals into digital IF or I and Q sample data. 

The extended frequency range up to 13GHz enables the measurement of harmonic characteristics of fundamental signals below 6.5 GHz.

The PXI Studio software application supplied as standard with the 3036 performs spectrum and time domain analysis of sample data for general purpose RF component testing and alignment of radio communications transceivers.

These features are ideally suited to the needs of RF test systems for manufacturing and design verification.

Optional measurement personalities for PXI Studio enable measurements for a range of generic modulation types and radio standards including LTE (FDD and TDD); UMTS / HSUPA; TD-SCDMA; CDMA2000 1xRTT and EV-DO; GSM / EDGE; WLAN; WiMAX; Bluetooth and ZigBee.

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