The Tektronix 3026 Real Time Spectrum Analyzer provides design engineers and manufacturing final test evaluators of communications equipment an affordable product that can be used to quickly evaluate a design or the final product for transient (Burst) phenomena that otherwise might not show up until it is in the end user's hands. The 3026 offers a full 2 MHz of real-time bandwidth with measurement speed of 25,000 frames/second and a 1024 point update interval of 160 microseconds. The captured events can be conveniently displayed in a variety of formats selectable by the user: Spectrum, Spectrogram and Waterfall. The analyzer architecture makes it possible to capture time domain data and frequency domain data simultaneously.

The 3026 consists of a 3 GHz down converter unit which converts the RF signal to IF, the A/D converter which converts analog signals to digital, the digital down converter (DDC) which down-converts the center frequency and changes the span, the real-time FIFO which frames the data stream, the FFT processor which extracts the spectrum components, a memory system which captures the time and frequency domain data, and the system controller which covers the user interface and hardware control.

Features :

• 2 MHz Real-time Signal Capture
• Simultaneous Time and Frequency Domain Capture
• 50 Hz to 3 GHz Frequency Coverage
• Frequency, Time and Phase Analysis
• 25,000 Frames/Second Measurement Speed
• Display Update Rate of 40 Microseconds