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To determine peak to average characteristics – Agilent Technologies E8267D PSG User Manual

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Chapter 9

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Multitone Waveform Generator

Creating, Viewing, and Optimizing Multitone Waveforms

7.

Turn on waveform averaging.

8.

Create a marker and place it on the peak of one of the end tones.

9.

Create a delta marker and place it on the peak of the adjacent intermodulation product, which
should be spaced 10 MHz from the marked tone.

10. Measure the power difference between the tone and its distortion product.

You should now see a display that is similar to the one shown in

Figure 9- 6

. Your optimized

multitone signal can now be used to measure the IMD products generated by a device–under–test.

Note that carrier feedthrough changes with time and temperature. Therefore, you will need to
periodically readjust your I and Q offsets to keep the signal optimized.

Figure 9-6

To Determine Peak to Average Characteristics

This procedure describes how to set the phases of the tones in a multitone waveform and determine
the peak to average characteristics by plotting the complementary cumulative distribution function
(CCDF).

1.

Press

Mode > Multitone > Initialize Table

>

Number of Tones

>

64

>

Enter

.

2.

Press

Freq Spacing

>

20

>

kHz

.

3.

Press

Initialize Phase Fixed Random

to Fixed.

Minimized

Carrier
Feedthrough

Intermodulation
Distortion

Tone 1

Carrier
Feedthrough
Distortion

Tone 10

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