Agilent E8267C PSG - Manual

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – ii; Notice
  • Page 3 – Contents; iii
  • Page 4 – iv
  • Page 6 – Configuring
  • Page 7 – vii
  • Page 8 – viii
  • Page 9 – ix
  • Page 11 – Signal Generator Overview
  • Page 12 – Chapter 1; Signal Generator Models and Features; E8247C PSG CW Signal Generator Features; PSG Signal Generator Models
  • Page 13 – E8257C PSG Analog Signal Generator Features
  • Page 14 – E8267C PSG Vector Signal Generator Features; internal I/Q modulator; Options; View complete price list; Firmware Upgrades; , or call the appropriate number listed in
  • Page 15 – Modes of Operation; All PSG signal generator models can be used in CW mode:
  • Page 16 – Front Panel; Front Panel Diagram (E8267C PSG Vector Signal Generator)
  • Page 17 – “Front Panel Display” on page 13
  • Page 18 – Trigger Key; Hardkeys in Front Panel MENUS Group
  • Page 19 – Mod
  • Page 20 – The; and
  • Page 21 – . The nominal input impedance is 50; hardkey have no effect once this hardkey is pressed.; Pressing this hardkey causes the display background to darken.; Display Contrast Increase; Pressing this hardkey causes the display background to lighten.
  • Page 22 – Mux; SYMBOL SYNC INPUT
  • Page 23 – Front Panel Display; Front Panel Display Diagram
  • Page 26 – UNLOCK; Digital Modulation Annunciators; Utility; Softkey Label Area; ARB
  • Page 27 – Rear Panel; The signal generator rear panel (; Rear Panel Diagram
  • Page 28 – AC Power Receptacle; Auxiliary Interface Connector; Pin Number
  • Page 29 – The output impedance is less than 1
  • Page 32 – Dig Bus
  • Page 33 – BASEBAND GEN REF IN
  • Page 35 – Basic Operation
  • Page 36 – Chapter 2; Using Table Editors; Preset
  • Page 37 – Table Editor Softkeys
  • Page 38 – Configuring the RF Output; Configuring a Continuous Wave RF Output; Setting the RF Output Frequency; FREQUENCY
  • Page 41 – Configuring a Swept RF Output; NOTE; “Storing Files to the Memory
  • Page 43 – Return; To Configure a Continuous Step Sweep; Sweep Repeat Single Cont
  • Page 44 – “Using Table Editors” on
  • Page 46 – To Configure a Continuous List Sweep; SWEEP
  • Page 47 – “Configuring a Frequency Sweep” on page 38
  • Page 49 – Figure
  • Page 50 – Markers
  • Page 51 – Move the cursor back to marker 0 and press; Marker Table Editor; Move the cursor back to marker 1 and press
  • Page 52 – Turn Off Markers; Adjusting Sweep Time; Configure Ramp/Step Sweep
  • Page 53 – The sweep time returns to its fastest allowable setting.; Using Alternate Sweep; “Using the Instrument State; and enter new start and stop frequency values for the ramp
  • Page 55 – Set up the equipment as shown in; Master/Slave Equipment Setup
  • Page 57 – Extending the Frequency Range with a mm-Wave Source Module; Agilent 83550 Series millimeter-wave source module; Connect the Equipment; Turn off the signal generator’s line power.
  • Page 58 – without; Option 1EA; Turn on the signal generator’s line power.
  • Page 59 – MMMOD; RF OFF
  • Page 60 – Modulating a Signal; Turning On a Modulation Format; Access the first menu within the modulation format.; Example of AM Modulation Format Off and On
  • Page 61 – Applying a Modulation Format to the RF Output; To Turn RF Output Modulation On; MOD ON; To Turn RF Output Modulation Off; MOD OFF; Carrier Signal Modulation Status
  • Page 62 – Using Data Storage Functions; Using the Memory Catalog; Memory Catalog File Types and Associated Data
  • Page 64 – Using the Instrument State Register; “Storing Files to the Memory Catalog” on page 53; Saving an Instrument State
  • Page 67 – Enabling Options; Enabling a Software Option
  • Page 68 – Modify License Key
  • Page 69 – Optimizing Performance; Selecting ALC Bandwidth; Decision Tree for Automatic ALC Bandwidth Selection; To Select an ALC Bandwidth; Press
  • Page 70 – Chapter 3; Using External Leveling; To Level with Detectors and Couplers/Splitters; Required Equipment; Agilent 8474E negative detector; Set up the equipment as shown in; External Detector Leveling with a Directional Coupler
  • Page 71 – EXT; ATTN HOLD
  • Page 73 – Amplitude; To Level with a mm-Wave Source Module; “Extending the Frequency Range with a mm-Wave Source Module” on
  • Page 74 – Creating and Applying User Flatness Correction; Afterward, use the steps in; Creating a User Flatness Correction Array; Agilent E4413A E Series CW power sensor; “Using External Leveling” on page 60
  • Page 75 – Connect the equipment as shown in
  • Page 76 – RF ON
  • Page 77 – “Performing the User Flatness Correction Manually” on page 67; Performing the User Flatness Correction Manually; AMPLITUDE
  • Page 78 – “Creating a User Flatness Correction Array” on
  • Page 79 – Save your instrument state to the instrument state register.
  • Page 80 – “To Level with a mm-Wave Source Module” on; Configure the Power Meter
  • Page 81 – Turn off the line power to the signal generator.
  • Page 83 – Perform the User Flatness Correction
  • Page 84 – User
  • Page 85 – “Creating a User Flatness Correction Array
  • Page 86 – Adjusting Reference Oscillator Bandwidth (Option UNR); To Select the Reference Oscillator Bandwidth; When using the internal timebase reference:; To Restore Factory Default Settings:
  • Page 87 – Analog Modulation
  • Page 88 – Chapter 4; Analog Modulation Waveforms
  • Page 89 – Configuring AM; To Set the Carrier Frequency; To Set the AM Depth and Rate; softkey, which can be viewed by pressing; To Turn on Amplitude Modulation; Press the front panel
  • Page 90 – Configuring FM; To Set the RF Output Frequency; To Set the FM Deviation and Rate
  • Page 92 – Configuring Pulse Modulation; To Set the Pulse Period and Width
  • Page 93 – Configuring the LF Output
  • Page 94 – To Configure the LF Output with an Internal Modulation Source; In this example, the internal FM modulation is the LF output source.; Internal modulation (; Configuring the Internal Modulation as the LF Output Source; FM; Configuring the Low Frequency Output
  • Page 95 – To Configure the LF Output with a Function Generator Source; In this example, the function generator is the LF output source.; Configuring the Function Generator as the LF Output Source; This returns you to the top LF Output menu.; This sets the LF output amplitude to 3 Vp.
  • Page 97 – Dual Arbitrary Waveform Generator
  • Page 98 – Chapter 5
  • Page 99 – Creating a File Header for a Modulation Format Waveform; Custom Digital Modulation First-Level Softkey Menu; “Modifying Header Information in a Modulation Format” on page 90
  • Page 100 – Modifying Header Information in a Modulation Format; Custom Digital Modulation Default Header Display
  • Page 103 – ARB Setup Softkey Menu and Marker Utilities
  • Page 104 – Differing Values between Header and Current Setting Columns
  • Page 105 – Modifying and Viewing Header Information in the Dual ARB Player; Saved Header Settings; Modifying Header Information; “Modifying Header Information in a Modulation Format” on
  • Page 106 – Viewing Header Information with the Dual ARB Player Off; , the header editing; Viewing Header Information
  • Page 107 – Viewing Header Information for a Different Waveform File
  • Page 108 – Playing a Waveform File that Contains a Header; “Playing a Waveform” on; File Header Settings
  • Page 109 – Using the Dual ARB Waveform Player; Accessing the Dual ARB Player
  • Page 110 – Creating Waveform Segments; “Building and Storing a Waveform Sequence” on page 101; Generating the First Waveform; TTONE
  • Page 111 – MTONE; Building and Storing a Waveform Sequence; “Creating Waveform Segments” on page 100; Selecting the Waveform Segments; Storing the Waveform Sequence; Catalog of Seq Files
  • Page 112 – Playing a Waveform; “Creating Waveform; Selecting a Waveform Sequence; Sequence; Generating the Waveform; Editing a Waveform Sequence; “To Toggle Markers As You Create a Waveform Sequence” on page 107
  • Page 113 – Storing and Loading Waveform Segments; Storing Waveform Segments to Non-volatile Memory; Renaming a Waveform Segment; Highlight the desired file and press
  • Page 114 – Using Waveform Markers; For instructions on verifying marker operation, see; To Place a Marker at the First Point within a Waveform Segment
  • Page 115 – To Place Repetitively Spaced Markers within a Waveform Segment; To Use Marker 2 to Blank the RF Output
  • Page 116 – To Toggle Markers in an Existing Waveform Sequence; “Creating Waveform Segments” on
  • Page 117 – To Toggle Markers As You Create a Waveform Sequence; To Verify Marker Operation
  • Page 118 – Waveform Marker Concepts; For Marker Polarity = Positive
  • Page 121 – Using Waveform Triggers; To Use Segment Advance Triggering; Configuring the Waveform Sequence Trigger; Triggering the Second Waveform
  • Page 122 – Using Waveform Clipping; “Waveform Clipping Concepts” on page 113; To Configure Circular Clipping; To Configure Rectangular Clipping
  • Page 123 – Waveform Clipping Concepts; The clipping feature is available only with the Dual Arb mode.; How Power Peaks Develop; envelope is determined by the equation
  • Page 124 – As shown in; Combining the I and Q Waveforms
  • Page 126 – Circular Clipping
  • Page 129 – Custom Arb Waveform Generator; This chapter includes the following major sections:
  • Page 130 – Chapter 6; Overview
  • Page 131 – Selecting a Custom ARB Setup or a Custom Digital Modulation State; one of the predefined modulation setups:
  • Page 132 – Custom Arb Only; Modifying a Single-Carrier NADC Setup; DIGMOD
  • Page 133 – Customizing a Multicarrier Setup; Freq Offset; “Using Data Storage Functions” on page 52
  • Page 134 – Recalling a User-Defined Custom Digital Modulation State; Catalog of DMOD Files
  • Page 135 – Working with Filters
  • Page 136 – Using a Predefined FIR Filter; Selecting a Predefined FIR Filter; or
  • Page 137 – Using a User-Defined FIR Filter
  • Page 139 – In this procedure, you use the
  • Page 140 – Use the numeric keypad to type the first value (
  • Page 141 – Using the alphabetic menu and the numeric keypad, enter
  • Page 143 – Working with Symbol Rates; Sym Rate; To Set a Symbol Rate; To Restore the Default Symbol Rate (Custom Real Time I/Q Only)
  • Page 145 – Ch
  • Page 146 – Working with Modulation Types; “Working with Data Patterns” on page 147; To Select a Predefined Modulation Type
  • Page 147 – This loads a default 256QAM I/Q modulation into the
  • Page 148 – Catalog of IQ Files
  • Page 149 – Distinct Values
  • Page 151 – Frequency Values
  • Page 153 – Configuring Hardware; “To Set the ARB Reference”; To Set a Delayed, Positive Polarity, External Single Trigger; until On is highlighted.
  • Page 154 – Dig Mod; To Set the ARB Reference; Setting for an External or Internal Reference
  • Page 155 – Custom Real Time I/Q Baseband
  • Page 156 – Chapter 7; Selecting a Predefined Real Time Modulation Setup
  • Page 157 – Working with Data Patterns; This section provides information on the following:
  • Page 158 – Using a Predefined Data Pattern; Selecting a Predefined PN Sequence Data Pattern
  • Page 159 – Using a User-Defined Data Pattern; Bit; Creating a Data Pattern User File with the Bit File Editor; When you create a new file, the default name is
  • Page 160 – Enter the 32 bit values shown using the numeric keypad.; Selecting a Data Pattern User File from the Catalog of Bit Files; “Creating a Data
  • Page 161 – Navigating the Bit Values of an Existing Data Pattern User File; Goto
  • Page 162 – Using an Externally Supplied Data Pattern
  • Page 163 – Working with Burst Shapes; “Configuring the Burst Rise and Fall Parameters” on page 154
  • Page 164 – the symbol rate; Configuring the Burst Rise and Fall Parameters; “To Create and Store
  • Page 165 – Using User-Defined Burst Shape Curves; Rise Shape
  • Page 166 – To return the burst shape to the default conditions, press
  • Page 168 – “To Set the BBG Reference” on page 158; To Set the BBG Reference; The BBG reference external frequency is used only when the
  • Page 169 – To Set the BBG DATA CLOCK to External or Internal; to select either external or internal.; To Adjust the I/Q Scaling
  • Page 170 – Working with Phase Polarity; To Set Phase Polarity to Normal or Inverted; Working with Differential Data Encoding; When set to Off, data bits are not encoded prior to modulation.; Understanding Differential Encoding; editor contains data that represent four symbols (00,
  • Page 171 – shows the 4QAM modulation in the; The following illustration shows a 4QAM modulation I/Q State Map.
  • Page 172 – t r a n s m i t t e d b i t i; differentially encoded data
  • Page 173 – Differential State Map; Example
  • Page 174 – For instructions on configuring differential encoding, see
  • Page 175 – Using Differential Encoding; The signal generator’s
  • Page 176 – Editing the Differential State Map; Enter
  • Page 177 – Notice that
  • Page 179 – Multitone Waveform Generator
  • Page 180 – Chapter 8; Multitone
  • Page 181 – Creating, Viewing, and Optimizing Multitone Waveforms; Spectrum Analyzer Setup; To Create a Custom Multitone Waveform; Using the
  • Page 182 – completed. Notice that the; To View a Multitone Waveform; Set the amplitude for a 10 dB scale with a 4 dBm reference.
  • Page 183 – . You will also see IMD products at 1 MHz intervals above and below; To Edit the Multitone Setup Table; This procedure builds upon the previous procedure.
  • Page 184 – Phase; of carrier feedthrough at the center carrier frequency.
  • Page 185 – To Minimize Carrier Feedthrough
  • Page 186 – Create a marker and place it on the peak of one of the end tones.
  • Page 187 – To Determine Peak to Average Characteristics; You should now see a display that is similar to the one shown in; CCDF Plot with Fixed Phase Set
  • Page 188 – Done; CCDF Plot with Random Phase Set
  • Page 189 – Two-Tone Waveform Generator; “Overview” on page 180
  • Page 190 – Chapter 9
  • Page 191 – To Create a Two-Tone Waveform; Set the signal generator RF output frequency to 20 GHz.
  • Page 192 – To View a Two-Tone Waveform
  • Page 196 – To Change the Alignment of a Two-Tone Waveform; Mode Setup; Two Tone
  • Page 197 – Troubleshooting
  • Page 199 – RF Output Power Problems; RF Output Power too Low; “Signal Loss While Working with a; The Power Supply has Shut Down
  • Page 200 – Signal Loss While Working with a Mixer; amplitude signal to a mixer.; Effects of Reverse Power on ALC; MIXER
  • Page 201 – ATTEN
  • Page 202 – Signal Loss While Working with a Spectrum Analyzer; Setting ALC Off Mode
  • Page 203 – No Modulation at the RF Output
  • Page 204 – Sweep Problems; Sweep Appears to be Stalled; determine if the missing single sweep is blocking the sweep.; Cannot Turn Off Sweep Mode
  • Page 205 – Incorrect List Sweep Dwell Time; Configure List Sweep; Dwell Type List Step; List Sweep Information is Missing from a Recalled Register
  • Page 206 – Data Storage Problems; Registers With Previously Stored Instrument States are Empty; Recall
  • Page 207 – Cannot Turn Off Help Mode
  • Page 208 – Signal Generator Locks Up; Local; Fail-Safe Recovery Sequence; CAUTION; WARNING
  • Page 210 – Error Messages; ERR; Error Message File; Characteristic
  • Page 211 – Error Message Format
  • Page 212 – Error Message Types; data in the output queue has been lost.
  • Page 213 – Returning a Signal Generator to Agilent Technologies; Call the phone number listed in; Contacting Agilent; Asia Call Center Numbers
  • Page 215 – Index; Symbols
  • Page 216 – See also user flatness correction
  • Page 217 – See also memory catalog
  • Page 218 – See also digital modulation
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User’s Guide

Agilent Technologies

PSG Signal Generators

This guide applies to the following signal generator models:

E8267C PSG Vector Signal Generator

E8257C PSG Analog Signal Generator

E8247C PSG CW Signal Generator

Due to our continuing efforts to improve our products through firmware and hardware revisions, signal

generator design and operation may vary from descriptions in this guide. We recommend that you use the

latest revision of this guide to ensure you have up-to-date product information. Compare the print date of this

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Manufacturing Part Number: E8251-90253

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ii Notice The material contained in this document is provided “as is”, and is subject to being changed, without notice, in future editions. Further, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Agilent disclaims all warranties, either express or implied with regard to this manual and to any of...

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Contents iii 1. Signal Generator Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Signal Generator Models and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 E8247C PS...

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Contents iv 30. Display Contrast Increase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 31. Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1...

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