Rohde & Schwarz Workshops - Free to attend

• Fundamental structures of signal generators
• Challenges in low phase noise and high output power
• High-performance analog and pulse modulations
• Practical demonstrations for typical applications

• Mixer fundamentals
• I/Q mixer principles
• I/Q versus conventional mixers
• Practical demonstrations

• Power versus frequency (frequency response) measurements
• Power versus power (gain, compression point) measurements
• Power versus time measurements
• Automatic pulse measurements
• Practical demonstrations

• Overview of pulse scenarios
• Generating pulsed signals using analog signal generators
• Generating pulsed signals using vector signal generators
• Advantages and disadvantages of analog and vector signal generators for pulsed signal generation

• Basics of a new group delay measurement technique
• Network analyzer architectures for this type of measurement
• Considerations regarding measurement accuracy
• Presentation of measurement results

• Measurements up to +43 dBm
• Improved signal purity and dynamic range
• Fast and accurate intermodulation distortion measurements
• New pulse measurement capabilities

This practical workshop will demonstrate how customers benefit from extended network analyzers in combination with multiharmonic tuners to characterize the nonlinear behavior of components. It will show the following:

• How a transistor can be characterized in a non-50 Ohm environment on different harmonics
• How model verification and tuning uniquely benefit from this capability
• How amplifier designers benefit from an extension to their network analyzers

The workshop also gives room for practical discussions.

• Theory of phase noise testing
• Increased sensitivity through cross-correlation up to 50 GHz
• Residual phase noise
• AM noise

• Theory of noise figure measurement with spectrum analyzer
• Description of test setup and components
• Calibration of measurement
• Discussion of the results: Y factor, NF, gain, etc.