Measurements and results
R&S®EPL1000
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3 Measurements and results
Access: "Overview" > "Select Measurement"
Or: [MEAS]
In the Spectrum application, the R&S EPL1000 provides a variety of different measure-
ment functions.
●Basic measurements - measure the spectrum of your signal or watch your signal
in time domain
●Power measurements - calculate the powers involved in modulated carrier signals
●Emission measurements - detect unwanted signal emission
●Statistic measurements - evaluate the spectral distribution of the signal
●Further measurements - provide characteristic values of the signal
●EMI measurements - detect electromagnetic interference in the signal
The individual functions are described in detail in the following chapters.
The measurement function determines which settings, functions and evaluation meth-
ods are available in the R&S EPL1000. The various measurement functions are descri-
bed in detail here.
When you select a measurement function, the measurement is started with its default
settings immediately and the corresponding measurement configuration menu is dis-
played. The measurement configuration menu can be displayed at any time by press-
ing the [MEAS CONFIG] key.
The easiest way to configure measurements is using the configuration "Overview", see
Chapter 4.1, "Configuration overview", on page 184.
In addition to the measurement-specific parameters, the general parameters can be
configured as usual, see Chapter 4, "Configuration", on page 184. Many measurement
functions provide special result displays or evaluation methods; however, in most
cases the general evaluation methods are also available, see Chapter 5, "Common
analysis and display functions", on page 257.
The remote commands required to retrieve measurement results are described in
Chapter 6.9.2.1, "Trace data retrieval", on page 565.
●Basic measurements...............................................................................................12
●Power sweep measurements..................................................................................32
●Channel power and adjacent-channel power (ACLR) measurement......................40
●Carrier-to-noise measurements.............................................................................. 60
●Occupied bandwidth measurement (OBW).............................................................64
●Spectrum emission mask (SEM) measurement......................................................70
●Spurious emissions measurement........................................................................ 111
●Statistical measurements (APD, CCDF)............................................................... 124
●Time domain power measurement........................................................................138
●Harmonic distortion measurement........................................................................ 143
●Third order intercept (TOI) measurement............................................................. 148
●AM modulation depth measurement..................................................................... 156
●Electromagnetic interference (EMI) measurement................................................159