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.

Technical specifications of the R&S®SFE100 test transmitter

Chinese (PD 5213.8596.15)

English (PD 5213.8596.12)

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.

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)

English (PD 5214.5103.22)

Version 1.3.1 of the DVB-T2 standard ETSI 302 755 introduced the T2-Lite profile to ease the implementation of mobile TV services. This was achieved by minimizing the complexity of the required receiver and allowing side-by-side integration into existing conventional (T2-Base) DVB-T2 channels. For the purposes of testing the compatibility and performance of receiver modules, this application note describes how this type of composite T2-Base/T2-Lite RF signal can be simulated using one R&S®BTC or alternatively two instruments from the family of broadcast signal generators comprised of the R&S®SFU, R&S®SFE, R&S®SFE100 and R&S®SFC. Only one corresponding multiple profile T2-MI stream is required, either in the form of a file or via an external gateway.

03-Feb-2014 | AN-No. 7BM81

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

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

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

I/Q waveform files contain the digital complex sample values of a radio signal. They can be synthetically computer-calculated for generating precisely defined contents, or they can represent the recording of a received live signal. The structure of these files has never been standardized, which is why so many different formats are in use today. R&S®IQ Converter and R&S®IQ Stream Extractor are programs that quickly and conveniently convert the contents of I/Q waveform files of nearly any structure into the I/Q format used by the R&S®BTC, R&S®CLG, R&S®SLG, R&S®SFU, R&S®SFE and R&S®SFE100 signal generators. This makes it possible for the signal generators to use their integrated ARB function to generate precise RF signals from nearly any I/Q waveform file.

03-Feb-2014 | AN-No. 7BM79

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

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.

English (PD 5213.7202.12)

Specifications of DRM Waveforms from Rohde & Schwarz

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