Setting Up Your Signal Analyzer And Signal Source - Agilent Technologies PSA Series Manual

Setting Up Your Signal Analyzer and Signal
Source
Signal Source drives the sweep of each PSA bucket
Trigger Out 10 MHz Out
(rear panel) (rear panel)
Swept Signal
Source
Sweep Out
(rear panel)
Drives the start of the PSA sweep
You will need the following equipment to use your PSA Series spectrum
analyzer to control an external signal source:
• A PSA Series analyzer with Option 215 software installed and with
time gating capability.
If you are not sure whether your PSA Series analyzer has Option 215
installed, press
215 Ext Src Control
installed. See
how to do this. Information about the time gating hardware is found
in
• An Agilent signal generator that supports LAN connectivity.
Examples of signal generators are: the ESG-C, the PSG-C, and the
PSG-D, and the MXG-A. The PSG-A signal source is not supported.
• Either one LAN crossover cable to connect the two instruments
directly if you are not connecting to a local area network, or you need
two LAN cables to connect both instruments to your local area
network
• Three BNC cables.
• Cables to connect to your device under test.
Chapter 1
Trigger
Ext Frequency Reference
LAN
Sweep
,
System More
. If you cannot see Option 215 listed, it needs to be
"Installing Option 215" on page 16
"Hardware and Firmware Requirements" on page

Setting Up Your Signal Analyzer and Signal Source

50 ohm feedthrough
MUST be connected at the PSA
end of the cable
Ext Ref In
(rear panel)
Spectrum
Analyzer
Ext Trigger In
(front panel)
sa_ss_connect.vsd
, , , and look for Option
More Personality
for instructions on
Getting Started
Trigger In
(rear panel)
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