RF Circuit Designer's Notes

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Input related spurs

Spurs on the LO at Foffset will manifest as a spur when the input signal frequency is offset by an equal amount.


Foffset = 200 khz on LO1
Fcenter =1G, FLO1=5G (4GHz 1st IF)
Fspan = 10 MHz


Input signal = 999.8 MHz fed to spectrum analyzer
Display shows response at 999.8 MHz and 1000 MHz (due to lo spur)

If the RBW > 200kHz, would the power contributed by the LO spur affect the amplitude accuracy measurement of the main signal?
The detector determines power for a single point by looking at the power of IF spectrum limited by the RBW. Each display pixel is a bin consisting of several measurement points.

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