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Realtime spectrum analyzer spans time, frequency, and modulation domains—simultaneously

New Unit Improves Resolution by 2000 Times, Enabling Engineers to View RF Signal Instabilities and Transients that They Never Knew Existed BEAVERTON, Ore.—Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider ...
Hackaday

Is The Frequency Domain A Real Place?

When analyzing data, one can use a variety of transformations on the data to massage it into a form that works better to tease out the information one is interested in. One such example is the ...
Electronic Design

Using a VNA Like a Time-Domain Reflectometer

The basic concepts underpinning time-domain reflectometry. Difference between frequency- and time-domain analysis. Some applications of TDR measurements. Time-domain reflectometry (TDR) is a technique ...
Hackaday

Tamper Detection With Time-Domain Reflectometry

For certain high-security devices, such as card readers, ATMs, and hardware security modules, normal physical security isn’t ...
EDN

SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #56: Clock Jitter Demystified–Random Jitter and Phase Noise

Figure 1 depicts the nature of the information provided by measuring a signal in the time domain vs. the frequency domain. Both provide insight into the content of the signal and possible approaches ...
Electronic Design

ESR Time Domain Scan

Taking the R&S ESR EMI test receiver as an example, this paper looks at a CISPR 16-1-1- compliant test instrument with time domain scanning capabilities. The paper compares the measurement speed and ...