Agilent Technologies E5500A User Manual page 172

Table 7-8 Parameter Data for the Free-Running RF Oscillator Measurement
Step Parameters
5 Test Set Tab
Input Attenuation
LNA Low Pass Filter
• LNA Gain
• DC Block
• PLL Integrator Attenuation
6 Downconverter Tab
Input Frequency
L.O. Frequency
I.F. Frequency
Millimeter Frequency
L.O. Power
Maximum AM Detector Level
Input Attenuation
I.F. Gain
• Auto
Microwave/Millimeter Band
Millimeter Band Mixer Bias
• Enable
• Current
Reference Chain
• Reference
• External Tune Enable
Tuning Sensitivity
• Nominal
• 100 MHz PLL Bandwidth
• 600 MHz PLL Bandwidth
7 Graph Tab
• Title
• Graph Type
• X Scale Minimum
• X Scale Maximum
• Y Scale Minimum
• Y Scale Maximum
• Normalize trace data to a:
• Scale trace data to a new
carrier frequency of:
• Shift trace data DOWN by:
• Trace Smoothing Amount
• Power present at input of DUT
Data
• 0 dB
• 20 MHz (Auto checked)
• Auto Gain (Minimum Auto Gain - 14 dB)
• Not checked
• 0 dBm
• 10.044 E + 9
• Auto
• 444 E +6
• 0
• 20 dBM
• 0 dBm
• 0 dB
• 0 dB
• Checked
• Microwave (0 - 26.5 GHz)
• Unchecked
• 0 mA
• 10 MHz
• Unchecked
• 0 ppm/v
• 0 ppm/V
• 126 Hz
• 10000 Hz
• Free Running RF Oscillator vs. 8644B using DCFM
• Single-sideband Noise (dBc/Hz)
• 10 Hz
• 4 E + 6 Hz
• 0 dBc/Hz
• - 170 dBc/Hz
• 1 Hz bandwidth
• 1 times the current carrier frequency
• 0 dB
• 0
• 0 dB
Agilent Technologies E5500 Phase Noise Measurement System 7-47
Absolute Measurement Examples
Free-Running RF Oscillator