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Triarchy Technologies VSG6G1C Operating Manual

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9248 163 Street
Surrey, BC V4N 3C9
604-637-2167
info@triarchytech.com
Triarchy
VSG6G1C
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USB Vector RF Signal Generator
Operating Manual
CW signal
Analog modulation
GMSK modulation
8PSK
Pulse modulation
NB RF noise generator
Frequency sweeping
Hopping with data Mod
GSM signal
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  • Page 1 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Triarchy VSG6G1C ® USB Vector RF Signal Generator Operating Manual CW signal Analog modulation GMSK modulation 8PSK Pulse modulation NB RF noise generator Frequency sweeping Hopping with data Mod GSM signal...
  • Page 2 No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Triarchy Technologies, Corp. Technical Support For technical support, please call 1-604-637-2167, send email to info@triachytech.com, or visit our website at...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 VSG6G1C Product Package Overview 1.2 USB Device Overview 1.3 TSG PC Application Overview 1.4 Electrical Requirements 1.5 Product internal Option unit 2 Getting Started 2.1 Install PC Application 2.2 Uninstall PC Application...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    1 Introduction VSG6G1C is USB RF signal generator, it plug on PC and working with PC application, then VSG6G1C will be really RF signal generator, the RF frequency range from 100Hz to 6.1GHz for VSG6G1C model, Amplitude output range will be -100dBm~10dBm.

  • Page 5: Tsg Pc Application Overview

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 1.3 TSG PC Application Overview 1: utility keys Allows user to access the system level function, Function detail will be shown on second function keys 2: Message selection keys Click the Message selection key, the Message display area will be followed to be changed. 3: Message display area Message display area will be shown the detail information of output signal.

  • Page 6: Electrical Requirements

    When connected is shown, the device is really connected to TSG application, TSG will fully control the USB device. 1.4 Electrical Requirements 1.4.1 Specification for Frequency Frequency range for VSG6G1C: Band 1 : 1MHz ~4000MHz Band 2: 4000MHz ~6100MHz Low Band : 100Hz ~1MHz...
  • Page 7 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 1.4.2 Specification for power Output level range for VSG6G1C : Band 1: -100dBm~10dBm (Calibrated ) Band 2: -100dBm~0dBm (Calibrated) Low band : -50dBm~0dBm (No calibrated) Output level resolution: 0.25dB Output level error: <1dB (@ 1GHz at 25C) 1.4.3 Specification for Pulse modulation...

  • Page 8: Product Internal Option Unit

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 16QAM modulation in Demo key: Data rate rage: 800b/s to 8Mb/s; * Define the I&Q data file, study different I&Q pattern, internal I&Q engine will generate the most of digital modulation. 1.4.9 Specification for I&Q internal modulation I&Q sample rate: 2KHz~2.4MHz (I&Q step count from 36000~30)

  • Page 9: Getting Started

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com it can generator up to 100MHz/B data rate I&Q signal, so that it can simulate high speed wireless system, such as wifi, LTE, microwave relay system. 2 Getting Started 2.1 Install PC Application Open the CD, go into the SW file folder, you can find setup.exe and Document folder, please double click to setup.exe to start the installation.

  • Page 10: Uninstall Pc Application

    When you first time to use the VSG6G1C product, you shall turn off the TSG PC application. Connecting VSG6G1C to PC via USB cable, PC will install the USB hardware configuration with a little long time, please wait for all the configuration is installed.
  • Page 11 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com When clicking the Preset key, the second function key will be shown: Last_setting key select to ON, when TSG program turn on or USB device plug off and on, all system setting will go to last setting.

  • Page 12: Operations

    Select Mode to “Single Freq without Pulse Mod”. Click RF OFF to turn on the RF output, input frequency and amplitude value from Frequency and amplitude function key. Set VSG6G1C amplitude level to 0dBm at 1GHz. set RSA306 Span to 1MHz and 5MHz, RBW to 1KHz, to get spectrum waveform.

  • Page 13: Single Frequency With Pulse Modulation

    RF time waveform from RSA306 When VSG6G1C is working at pulse modulation mode, it can open the I&Q modulation to add data into pulse signal, it can simulation physical layer data frame of communication set, such as GSM, wireless key.

  • Page 14: Frequency Sweeping Without Pulse Modulation

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 3.3 Frequency Sweeping without Pulse Modulation Select Mode to “Freq Sweeping without Pulse Modulation”. click frequency then setup frequency at second function area. Input Start frequency, stop frequency and step frequency for frequency sweeping setting, then click the Send to dongle. The USB dongle will be followed to setting to work.

  • Page 15: Frequency Hopping With/Without Pulse Modulation

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 3.5 Frequency hopping with/without Pulse Modulation Select Mode to “Freq Hopping with/without Pulse Modulation”, then click Hopping function key, it need to load file or select Demo key. Demo1 is 300 points hopping and frequency range from 980MHz~1200MHz. It also need to setup “Pulse Mod”...

  • Page 16: Digital Modulation With I&Q Engine

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Spectrum from RSA306 I&Q Raw data from TSG I&Q constellation from TSG There are demo AM, FM and FM key in the second function of Analog Mod , just click it, then AM/FM/PM signal will be generated from N connector.

  • Page 17: Phase Modulation With I&Q Engine

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Working on I&Q file，most of all digital modulation can be generated, save the I&Q file into Digital modulation sub folder, The 4FSK file can be found at 4FSK folder. Load IQ 4FSK_1.txt file, 4FSK signal can be generated 4FSK data rate will be 40KHz/b, changing I&Q step count will change 4FSK data rate.

  • Page 18: Example For Gsm Signal Output

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Constellation Diagram from TSG Eye Diagram from RSA306 Constellation Diagram from RSA306 3.9 Example for GSM signal output load I&Q file from Load Save key. More complex signal can be setting by using different function keys. After signal is generated, Using Save key to save the setting status, the Load function can resume the signal which setup before.
  • Page 19 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com when Low band select to ON, N connector channel switch from RF channel to I&Q DAC channel. DAC channel will be directly output to N connector, it can generate 100Hz to 1MHz signal. The Low band output is really SW DDS, it means that I&Q file will be calculated by SW based on the input value, then DAC will be converted I&Q file into real signal.
  • Page 20 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com When click the “Load Raw File” key in low band, arbitrary signal waveform be archived based the data in the file. Several waveform can be combined together, the Combined action could be (+),(-),(*),(/), or some kind of modulation. There DTMF signal file can be found at Low band/Raw File folder.

  • Page 21: Pulse Modulation Signal Output

    3: External/Fast: External setup will need I&Q signal input from I&Q port, it can generate very fast modulation, the signal bandwidth can be setup to 500MHz. Fast setup will be reserved for high speed I&Q data generator option, it is option board for VSG6G1C, it can generate up to 100MHz data rate modulation signal. 3.14 Hardcopy Operation Click the hardcopy, the image of setup can be store within jpg file.

  • Page 22: Flash Off/On Operation

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com used the setup the signal format into file, and Load key is used to load file and stored signal format into USB dongle. Application note will be detail to show how it working. 3.16 Flash OFF/ON Operation Flash ON is still off line working function, but it is only working with one signal format which last setting.

  • Page 23: I&Q File Configuration

    9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 3: mapping the I&Q pattern based on the input data stream, then generate the raw I&Q data. 4.2 I&Q file configuration There are two kind of I&Q file which can be used by TSG program: 1: I&Q raw data file, which is only two row of I&Q raw data, I&Q raw data will send to DAC to generate I&Q waveform.
  • Page 24 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com 682,233 872,275 1023,388 1111,543 1133,702 1105,838 1053,938 1000,1002 961,1037 947,1047 961,1037 999,1004 1052,941 The modulation frequency will be 72MHz/(step count*I&Q sample amount) If step count=200, and I&Q sample amount=36, modulation frequency will be 10KHz. Any analog modulation and low frequency signal can be generated by I&Q raw data file, just define the I&Q raw data by math formula, you can generate any kind of waveform, the working method of I&Q raw data file is same Arbitrary Signal Generator, but it have two channels to generate signal.
  • Page 25 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Data input: Input binary data must be followed by Binary_IN,M, M is special parameter of MSK and GMSK, M=1, 1 bit will be related to 90 degree, M=2, 1 bit will be 180 degree. M=n, the FSK and GFSK phase changing for 1 bit will be 90*n degree.
  • Page 26 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com Converter setting: One parameter (Z) will be setup in following format: Code convertor, Z Z will be setup converter mode. Z=1, Bypass mode, it means converter will do nothing, just pass through. Z=2, Gray code mode, do gray code calculation: G(N) = (B(n)/2) B(n) Z=3, GMSK filter, if you want to generate GMSK modulation, select it.
  • Page 27 9248 163 Street Surrey, BC V4N 3C9 604-637-2167 info@triarchytech.com PatternI_110,683,605,529,456,390,330,279,238,208,189 PatternQ_110,1183,1177,1159,1129,1088,1037,977,911,838,762 PatternI_111,183,189,207,237,278,329,388,455,527,604 PatternQ_111,684,606,529,457,390,330,279,238,208,189 Page...

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