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Effects of sweep averaging, alternative settings
An average over several sweeps reduces the influence of random effects in the mea-
surement and therefore minimizes the noise level. The effect increases with the aver-
age factor, however, obtaining an averaged result requires several sweeps and there-
fore increases the measurement time.
Smoothing is an alternative method of compensating for random effects on the trace by
averaging adjacent measurement points. Compared to the sweep average, smoothing
does not significantly increase the measurement time but can eliminate narrow peaks
and thus produce misleading results.
The sweep average is not frequency selective. To eliminate a spurious signal near the
measurement frequency, alternative techniques (e.g. a smaller filter bandwidth) must
be used.
The average factor is also valid for calibration sweeps. The calculation of system cor-
rection data is based on the averaged trace.
Factor / On / Reset
"Factor" defines the number of averaged traces, "On" enables or disables the sweep
average, "Reset" starts a new average cycle. The average cycle is also restarted when
the
Remote command:
[SENSe<Ch>:]AVERage:COUNt
[SENSe<Ch>:]AVERage[:STATe]
[SENSe<Ch>:]AVERage:CLEar
Mode
Selects one of the following averaging algorithms:
●
"Auto":
Automatic selection between
"Reduce Noise"
and
"Flatten Noise"
mode, depending on the trace type.
Pwr Bw Avg Softtool
