Running The Ripple Test - Agilent Technologies 8753ET User Manual

existing frequency band limits. You may delete individual frequency bands or delete all of the frequency
bands from the list.
1. To access the ripple test edit menu, press:
EDIT RIPL LIMIT
2. Select the first frequency band (as an example, Frequency Band 3) to be deleted by pressing:
FREQUENCY BAND
3. Repeat step 2 until you have deleted the required frequency bands from the list.
4. If you need to delete all of the frequency bands, you can delete them all by pressing:
CLEAR LIST
When this softkey is pressed, you will be asked to confirm that you want to delete all of the frequency
bands from the list.
5. After you have finished deleting the frequency bands, you can return to the ripple test menu by pressing
.
DONE

Running the Ripple Test

Once the list of ripple limits has been set up, you are ready to run the ripple test. From the Ripple Test Menu,
you can:
• Start and stop the ripple test.
• Display and hide the ripple test limit lines.
• Select a frequency band and display its ripple measurement in two ways:
❏ the absolute measured ripple value
❏ the margin which the measured ripple passes or fails the user-defined maximum ripple value
Starting and Stopping the Ripple Test
Once the list of ripple limits has been set up, start the ripple test by pressing
the Ripple Test Menu until ON is displayed on the softkey. Pressing this softkey toggles the analyzer
between ripple test on and ripple test off status.
changed to 1 dB/division) being ripple tested. Note that the filter fails the ripple test. The portions of the
pass band trace which do not meet the test requirements are displayed in red.
3 x1 DELETE
Figure 1-69
Making Measurements
Using Ripple Limits to Test a Device
RIPL TEST on OFF
shows the filter pass band (with the scale
from
1- 89