The Tektronix RSA3408A is a dc to 8 GHz real-time spectrum analyzer with 36 MHz wide real-time triggering and capture capabilities and enhanced resolution yielding a 2000-fold improvement in the analysis of power and frequency changes over time.

In many applications, RF signals are becoming increasingly complex and transient in nature, generating problems that are harder than ever to detect and identify. Conventional spectrum analyzers are often inadequate to meet many of the new demands. These traditional instruments often miss what a real-time spectrum analyzer such as the RSA3408A can capture.

With the RSA3408A, a user can trigger on RF anomalies that cannot be detected by other instruments, capturing a seamless record of bandwidths up to 36 MHz over a long period of time, and then analyze the time-correlated, multidomain views of these signals. This record of RF signal behavior over time enables the user to analyze RF signals simultaneously in the time, frequency, and modulation domains.

By displaying these records, the RSA3408A will enable users to solve transient problems ranging from modulation switching in software-defined radio systems to rogue pulses in radar transmissions.

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