02 | Keysight | 89601B/BN-200 Basic Vector Signal Analysis, 89601B/BN-300 Hardware Connectivity, 89600 VSA Software - Technical Overview

Technical Overview

Basic vector signal analysis (Option 200) provides the foundation of the tools and user

interface that make up the 89600 VSA software. Explore virtually every facet of today’s

most complex signals with views of time, frequency and modulation domains. Benefit

from the flexible GUI capabilities: arbitrary arrangement and sizing of unlimited display

traces, each with unlimited markers. Powerful display formats, signal recording and play-

back, and detailed Help text provide the insight needed for analyzing signals. Use the

89600 VSA software in simulation with sink and source components providing real-time,

interactive analysis of results. Co-simulation is available with Keysight Technologies, Inc.

EEsof Advanced Design System (ADS) and SystemVue ESL as part of Option 200.

Hardware connectivity (Option 300) allows the 89600 VSA software to be linked to over

40 Keysight instruments. Choose the right instrument for your application and apply

vector signal analysis across your mixed signal design. Use the 89600 VSA software for

consistent, comparable results at simulation, prototype and design-validation stages of

development.

These options work together to provide a comprehensive set of tools for demodulation

and vector signal analysis. These tools enable you to explore virtually every facet of a

signal and optimize your most advanced designs. As you assess the tradeoffs, the 89600

VSA helps you see through the complexity.

Vector signal analysis

Today’s wide-bandwidth, vector-modulated (also called complex or digitally modulated),

time-varying signals benefit greatly from the capabilities of FFT analysis and other DSP

techniques. Vector signal analysis offers fast, high-resolution spectrum measurements,

demodulation, and advanced time-domain analysis. It is especially useful for character-

izing burst, transient, or modulated signals used in communications, video, broadcast,

radar, and ultrasound imaging applications.

The 89600 VSA software is fundamentally a digital system that uses data and math-

ematical algorithms to perform analysis. All it requires is sampled data from an instru-

ment, software, or digital bus. As a larger portion of wireless designs becomes digital,

the 89600 VSA software is uniquely suited to provide signal analysis for these complex

systems.

The 89600 VSA software running on a PC uses a measurement “front-end” or data

acquisition subsystem to provide formatted sampled data. The front-end performs the

following functions: connection to the device under test, signal digitizing, signal capture

capability, and data transfer to the PC in a sequential stream of data blocks. Once the

data blocks are available, the 89600 VSA software is able to perform all vector and

modulation analysis functions.

Try Before You Buy!

Download the 89600 VSA software

and use it free for 30 days to make

measurements with your analysis

hardware, or use our recorded demo

signals by selecting File > Recall

> Recall Demo > Signals > on the

software toolbar. Request your free

trial license today:

www.keysight.com/find/89600_trial