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| Signal Hound SM435C 43.5GHz Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer Review, Teardown & Exp. |
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| Hugoneus:
In this episode Shahriar reviews the successor to the popular Signal-Hound SM200C, the SM435C Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer covering 100kHz – 43.5GHz with 160MHz of gapless I/Q steaming using a 10GbE optical interface. https://signalhound.com/products/sm435c-43-5-ghz-real-time-spectrum-analyzer-with-10gbe/ With its constantly improving Spike software and incredible 1THz/s sweep rate, the SM435C has the potential to be a dream software-defined radio as well as a powerful laboratory & field instrument. This detailed review is organized as follows: 00:00 – Introduction 01:47 – Instrument overview & design 03:49 – Teardown, detailed circuits & systems overview and analysis including X-Ray imaging 16:33 – Analysis of a 24GHz pulsed radar module, real-time capability, zero-span mode, fast sweeps 29:06 – Noise figure personality and noise-figure measurements features 33:40 – Phase noise personality and characterizing the internal instrument phase-noise 33:49 – mm-Wave transmit mixer characteristics, digital demodulation capabilities 39:05 – Wideband IF output for digital demodulation using a Keysight MXR & PathWave VSA 41:35 – Wideband IF output for rapid pulse hopping analysis using a Tektronix MSO-6B Series 45:06 – Additional Spike software features 46:11 – Concluding remarks You can watch the video here: [47 Minutes] https://youtu.be/af2HJjrmb0I |
| coromonadalix:
Thank you for your videos / explanations :-+ An 10gbe lan, mani it must spit tons and tons of data if you do a full coverage ... and the speed it does .... |
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