Real-time spectrum analyser is tester of the year

The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) has selected the Tektronix RSA6100A Series real-time spectrum analyser as the winner of the DesignVision 2007 Award for Test and Measurement Equipment. Tektronix real-time spectrum analysers (RTSA) are the only analysers in the world that are designed to specifically solve digital RF problems. The International Engineering Consortium presented the 2007 DesignVision Awards programme in conjunction with the DesignCon conference in California.

The awards are given to recognise technologies, applications, products and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry.

Finalists were chosen from among a record-number of competing products by a panel of judges selected from DesignCon's Technical Programme Committee.

From these finalists, the 2007 DesignVision award winners are chosen for their innovative contributions and developments that have proven important to society.

RSA6100A Series of real-time spectrum analysers provide an unmatched combination of real-time performance, capture bandwidth, and dynamic range to meet the needs of a broad range of cutting-edge digital RF applications.

DPX waveform image processor technology transforms volumes of real-time data to produce a live RF spectrum presentation that reveals previously unseen RF signals and signal anomalies.

Live RF is achieved by improving the spectrum measurement rate nearly 1000 times compared with the fastest swept spectrum and vector signal analysers (VSA).