The challenge of testing digital RF technologies

Digital RF refers to the integration of digital computing and traditional analog radio frequency technologies and is a major technical driver enabling new wireless applications. The potential sources of problems in the RF devices has grown geometrically from traditional analog problems with things like intermodulation, distortion, etc., to now include RF problems relating to digital processing (such as digital IF signals, direct digital synthesis, digital filtering, DSP, etc.). This presentation will introduce you to real time spectrum analysis (RSA), and how this technology can greatly simplify the job of testing and troubleshooting todaypsilas digital RF devices and systems.