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Signal Hound BB60C User Manual

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2016, Signal Hound

35707 NE 86

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La Center, WA

Phone 360.263.5006 • Fax 360.263.5007

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Summary of Contents for BB60C

Page 1: ...BB60C Spectrum Analyzer User Manual...

Page 2: ...ser Manual 2016 Signal Hound 35707 NE 86 th Ave La Center WA Phone 360 263 5006 Fax 360 263 5007 This information is being released into the public domain in accordance with the Export Administration...

Page 3: ...ware 10 3 1 Front End Architecture 10 3 2 Description 10 3 3 Residual Signals 11 3 4 Scalloping Loss 11 3 5 Dynamic Range 12 3 6 Protecting the BB60C RF Input 12 4 Troubleshooting 13 4 1 Unable to Fin...

Page 4: ...1 Typical Performance Characteristics of the BB60C 17 8 1 1 Third Order Intercept TOI 17 8 1 2 Typical Amplitude Accuracy 17 8 1 3 Typical Displayed Average Noise Level 18 8 1 4 Typical Performance o...

Page 5: ...he Spike software manual 2 Preparation The BB60C is a real time high speed spectrum analyzer communicating with your PC over a USB 3 0 Super Speed link It has 27 MHz of real time bandwidth tunes from...

Page 6: ...1 GB for the BB60 software Native USB 3 0 support OpenGL 3 0 capable graphics processor Certain display features are accelerated with this functionality but it is not required Our software is highly o...

Page 7: ...ctrum The resulting IF contains 27MHz of usable bandwidth The BB60C is also a real time spectrum analyzer This means the device is capable of continuously streaming the IF frequency with no time gaps...

Page 8: ...bandwidth we can now process every spectrum sample for our resulting trace The BB60C performs overlapping FFTs at an overlapping rate of 50 covering each point of data with 2 FFTs We take the resulti...

Page 9: ...pan sweep to begin after this hardware trigger You can trigger on the rising edge or falling edge of a signal A 3 3V CMOS trigger with 50 ohm output impedance is ideal but 5V logic with 50 ohm output...

Page 10: ...a distributed element filter buried in the multilayer PCB laminate engineered to reject that band s image frequencies and reduce LO feed through Wherever possible RF band pass filters were used to re...

Page 11: ...analog filters Moving from analog to digital introduces some new terms important to measurement accuracy like FFT bins window functions spectral leakage and scalloping loss To sum up an FFT produces a...

Page 12: ...as offering significant protection against ESD It will also offer some protection against the energy spike you get when connecting to equipment with a DC or static voltage present The energy may sign...

Page 13: ...vice drivers were not successfully installed See the Driver Installation section for information about the BB60 drivers THE DEVICE IS NOT VALID 4 2 In the event the device ceases to operate or becomes...

Page 14: ...quency 3 0 1 10dB attenuation 1 5 1 10dB attenuation LO Leakage at RF Input 80dBm Displayed Average Noise Level DANL Input Frequency Range dBm Hz 9kHz to 500kHz 140 500kHz to 10MHz 154 10MHz to 6GHz 1...

Page 15: ...s apply only at 20 C to 25 C Typical variations over the analyzer s operating temperature from the specifications at 20 C to 25 C are published in Appendix Typical Performance Characteristics of the B...

Page 16: ...e by the Buyer Buyer supplied software or interfacing unauthorized modification or misuse operation outside of the environmental specifications for the product No other warranty is expressed or implie...

Page 17: ...ered in our official specs The official BB60C device specifications can be found in this document under the section titled BB60C Specifications Third Order Intercept TOI 8 1 1 Typical IIP3 at Specifie...

Page 18: ...C 18 Typical Displayed Average Noise Level 8 1 3 Typical Performance over Temperature 8 1 4 Spurious Mixer Responses 8 1 4 1 70 60 50 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 Harmonic Responses dBc Frequency MH...

Page 19: ...signal Subtract e g 64dB 2 GHz for an IP2 of 24 dBm Phase Noise 8 1 4 2 Displayed Average Noise Level Change over Temperature 8 1 4 3 100 95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 100 1 000 10 000 100 000 dBc Hz Offse...

Page 20: ...3 attenuator 0 dB For auto gain attenuator settings at cold temperatures a reference level of 55 dBm may be required for maximum sensitivity instead of the usual 50 dBm Residual Signals over Temperatu...