
HA7062D Manual Rev 1.01
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7.8 INSTRUMENT NOISE FLOOR
NOTE:
Noise floor data in this section is preliminary and based off of typical HA7062C noise floor
measurements up to 6GHz.
The unique architecture of Holzworth HA7000 series phase noise analyzers allows for direct access
to several internal modules. By allowing access to each channels phase detector individually, the
analyzers allow for actual measured noise floors instead of making noise floor approximations. To
make a noise floor measurement, the front end splitter is bypassed to directly access the phase
detector (mixer) of each channel/core while measuring two un-correlated frequency sources. Refer
to the figure below.
Figure 1: HA7062D Noise Floor Measurement Block Diagram