The R&S ® SFE broadcast tester is the compact solution for all major TV and broadcasting standards.

The R&S ® SFE100 is a multistandard test transmitter providing realtime coding for broadcast signals.

The R&S ® SFE broadcast tester is the compact solution for all major TV and broadcasting standards.

The R&S ® SFE100 is a multistandard test transmitter providing realtime coding for broadcast signals.

The R&S ® SFE broadcast tester is the compact solution for all major TV and broadcasting standards.

The R&S®SFE is a multistandard signal generator that supports all common TV standards and a number of audio broadcasting standards.

The R&S ® SFE100 is a multistandard test transmitter providing realtime coding for broadcast signals.

Chinese (PD 5213.8596.15)

Provides the information required to prepare the instrument for use and start working. Basic operations and handling are described. For the most recent information, always refer to the English version.

English (PD 5213.8596.12)

Technical specifications of the R&S®SFE100 test transmitter

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) defined the ANSI/SCTE 40 specification: Digital Cable Network Interface Standard. ANSI/SCTE 40 tests are designed to test conformance of set-top boxes and other cable receiving equipment to ensure that they will operate correctly when installed in a cable system. The tests are a combination of noise (AWGN and phase noise), AM hum, micro-reflections, digital and analog adjacent channels, and other discrete interferences. These impairments are found on most cable systems to some degree. Rohde & Schwarz provides set-top box manufacturers with an easy solution to perform conformance testing in line with ANSI/SCTE 40 by using the R&S®SFU broadcast test system and the R&S®SFE100 broadcast tester. The R&S®SFU is able to perform most of the test procedures in one unit. Furthermore, additional test transmitters allow the simulation of full channel loading. This Application Note explains the specific test requirements, a possible setup, and the configuration using the R&S®SFU/SFE100.

29-Oct-2009 | AN-No. 7BM68

Provides the information required to prepare the instrument for use and start working. Basic operations and handling are described. For the most recent information, always refer to the English version.

English (PD 5213.9234.12)

Provides the information required to use the library files.

This application note introduces the methods to convert MediaFLO™ waveform files to ARB format to be used with R&S® Broadcast Signal Generators SFx-K35 ARB Generator. R&S® IQWIZARD and WinIQSIM™ software are used, providing a quick and simple file conversion method.

10-Nov-2008 | AN-No. 7BM73

English (PD 5214.3198.22)

English (PD 5214.2856.)

English (PD 5214.3130.22)

When installed on an Apple iPad*, a remote desktop app provides a convenient way to remotely control measuring instruments over a WLAN connection.This is especially helpful when using measuring instruments that do not have their own display such as the R&S®VTS or R&S®SFC.The remote desktop app also gives users a detached way to control the instrument if, for example, the actual measuring instrument is installed in a place that is difficult to access.* Apple and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc.

02-Oct-2012 | AN-No. 7BM82

The R&S®LIB-K70 basic stream library includes DVB, ATSC and ISDB-T with MPEG-2, H.264 encoding, SD/HD format.

Specifications of DRM Waveforms from Rohde & Schwarz

English (PD 5214.5103.22)

The R&S®LIB-K72 extended HDTV library includes transport streams in various HD formats for DVB with MPEG-2 and H.264 video encoding as well as for ATSC and ISDB-T with MPEG-2 video encoding.

This application note describes how the transmitter landscape of a DVB-T2 single-frequency network (SFN) can be simulated in multiple input single output (MISO) mode in order to test the compatibility and performance of receiver modules. Neither an external T2-MI gateway nor a GPS receiver is required - just an R&S®BTC equipped with two RF paths. Alternatively, one R&S®SFU coupled with one or more R&S®SFU, R&S®SFE, R&S®SFE100 or R&S®SFC can also be used. R&S®ETL or R&S®ETC are suggested to fine-tune the synchronization between the generated RF signals.

03-Feb-2014 | AN-No. 7BM80

This white paper introduces a novel attribute based architecture for VXIplug&play instrument drivers. The presented architecture uses the attribute based concept of IVI-C instrument drivers to introduce a two-layer design for VXIplug&play instrument drivers. Moreover the use of attributes is shown for the Rohde & Schwarz Spectrum Analyzer (rsspecan) instrument driver.

01-Dec-2012 | AN-No. 1MA170

The R&S®LIB-K73 3D TV library includes transport streams for DVB, ATSC and ISDB-T.

The R&S®LIB-K71 SDTV extended library includes transport streams for DVB with MPEG-2, H.264; ATSC and ISDB-T with MPEG-2 video encoded into SD format.

English (PD 5213.7202.12)

Receiver diversity improves reception quality by using multiple antennas with a preferably low correlation factor between each other. This results in a more robust handling of multipath signals, since a deep fade will then not affect all received signals at the same time. However, the compact dimensions of handheld devices can introduce unwanted correlation due to their dense antenna spacing. In this case, the popular diversity test setup consisting of several independent transmitters will no longer serve the needs of a realistic simulation, since correlation effects have to be taken into account here. A clever solution is to operate the R&S®SFU in split-fading mode in combination with a second transmitter. This can be another R&S®SFU, the R&S®SFE, the R&S®SFE100 or the R&S®SMU200A. In this way, two diversity signals of adjustable correlation for any common broadcast standard are coded in realtime, while their individual multipath profile is precisely specified by the extensive features of the R&S®SFU fader module.

19-Oct-2012 | AN-No. 7BM76