Keysight-Agilent 8990B

Peak Power Analyzer

The 8990B peak power analyzer is a high performance RF peak power meter specializing in the measurement and analysis of RF pulses. The 8990B achieves 5 ns rise/fall time (with the N1923A/N1924A wideband power sensor), the fastest overall rise/fall time in the peak power measurement market, allowing R&D engineers and technicians to capture shorter pulse measurements with high accuracy during the module design, verification and troubleshooting process.

The 8990B comes with two RF channels and two video channels and measures the dynamic or time-dependent aspects of RF and microwave power. With the 8990B’s sampling rate of 100 MSa/s, R&D engineers get the high resolution they need to detect abnormalities in a signal trace for design improvement.

The 8990B peak power analyzer is equipped with a 15 inch XGA color touchscreen display that is capable of simultaneously displaying four channel results for more image detail. The 8990B provides internal and external trigger functions, and comes with 15 pulse parameter measurements and markers measurements including rise time, fall time, pulse droop, pulse width and time delay.

The 8990B achieves the best performance for peak power measurement when used with the N1923A (50 MHz to 18 GHz) and N1924A (50 MHz to 40 GHz) wideband power sensors.

Specifications

• 160 MHz video bandwidth
• 100 MSa/ sec continuous sampling with >1500 readings/ sec
• Frequency range of 50 MHz to 40 GHz (sensor dependent)
• Fast System Rise/ Fall time of 5nsec

• 15 measurement parameters: Rise time, fall time, pulse width, duty cycle, PRI, PRF, Peak, average, peak-to-average ratio, CCDF and etc.
• Automated delay measurement, automated droop measurement, pulse spacing measurement
• Multi-pulse analysis (with option 8990B-1FP or N6903A)
• Power-added efficiency (PAE) measurement

• Internal Zeroing and Calibration

Keysight-Agilent 8990B datasheet & specifications