Tektronix RSA3408A User manual

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User Manual
RSA3408A Option 25
cdma2000 Analysis Software
071-1677-00

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Software Warranty
Tektronix warrants that the media on which this software product is furnished and the encoding of the programs on the
media will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three (3) months from the date of
shipment. If a medium or encoding proves defective during the warranty period, Tektronix will provide a replacement
in exchange for the defective medium. Except as to the media on which this software product is furnished, this software
product is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. Tektronix does not warrant that
the functions contained in this software product will meet Customer’s requirements or that the operation of the
programs will be uninterrupted or error-free.
In order to obtain service under this warranty, Customer must notify Tektronix of the defect before the expiration of
the warranty period. If Tektronix is unable to provide a replacement that is free from defects in materials and
workmanship within a reasonable time thereafter, Customer may terminate the license for this software product and
return this software product and any associated materials for credit or refund.
THIS WARRANTY IS GIVEN BY TEKTRONIX IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED. TEKTRONIX AND ITS VENDORS DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TEKTRONIX’ RESPONSIBILITY
TO REPLACE DEFECTIVE MEDIA OR REFUND CUSTOMER’S PAYMENT IS THE SOLE AND
EXCLUSIVE REMEDY PROVIDED TO THE CUSTOMER FOR BREACH OF THIS WARRANTY.
TEKTRONIX AND ITS VENDORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER TEKTRONIX OR
THE VENDOR HAS ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Hardware Warranty
Tektronix warrants that the products that it manufactures and sells will be free from defects in materials and
workmanship for a period of one (1) year from the date of shipment. If a product proves defective during this warranty
period, Tektronix, at its option, either will repair the defective product without charge for parts and labor, or will
provide a replacement in exchange for the defective product.
In order to obtain service under this warranty, Customer must notify Tektronix of the defect before the expiration of
the warranty period and make suitable arrangements for the performance of service. Customer shall be responsible for
packaging and shipping the defective product to the service center designated by Tektronix, with shipping charges
prepaid. Tektronix shall pay for the return of the product to Customer if the shipment is to a location within the country
in which the Tektronix service center is located. Customer shall be responsible for paying all shipping charges, duties,
taxes, and any other charges for products returned to any other locations.
This warranty shall not apply to any defect, failure or damage caused by improper use or improper or inadequate
maintenance and care. Tektronix shall not be obligated to furnish service under this warranty a) to repair damage
resulting from attempts by personnel other than Tektronix representatives to install, repair or service the product; b) to
repair damage resulting from improper use or connection to incompatible equipment; c) to repair any damage or
malfunction caused by the use of non-Tektronix supplies; or d) to service a product that has been modified or integrated
with other products when the effect of such modification or integration increases the time or difficulty of servicing the
product.
THIS WARRANTY IS GIVEN BY TEKTRONIX IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED. TEKTRONIX AND ITS VENDORS DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TEKTRONIX’ RESPONSIBILITY
TO REPAIR OR REPLACE DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS IS THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY
PROVIDED TO THE CUSTOMER FOR BREACH OF THIS WARRANTY. TEKTRONIX AND ITS
VENDORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER TEKTRONIX OR THE VENDOR HAS
ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Related Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Contacting Tektronix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Getting Started
Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Operating Basics
Functional Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
cdma2000 Forward Link Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Modulation Accuracy Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Code Domain Power Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Channel Power Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
OBW Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
ACPR Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23
Spectrum Emission Mask Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24
Intermodulation Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26
CCDF Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27
Pilot to Code Channel Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30
cdma2000 Reverse Link Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33
Modulation Accuracy Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Code Domain Power Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-42
Pilot to Code Channel Measurement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45
Gated Output Power Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49
Editing the Measurement Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-51
Using the Measurement Limits Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-51
Saving and Loading Measurement Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-60
Measurement Limit Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-61
Appendices
Setting Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index-1

List of Figures
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List of Figures
Figure 2-1: Menu diagram showing measurement functions available in
Option 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Figure 2-2: Modulation accuracy measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Figure 2-3: Modulation accuracy display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Figure 2-4: EVM display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Figure 2-5: MagErr display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Figure 2-6: PhaseErr display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Figure 2-7: Symbol table display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Figure 2-8: Code domain power measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Figure 2-9: Code domain power display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Figure 2-10: Power codogram display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17
Figure 2-11: IQ power graph display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19
Figure 2-12: Channel power measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Figure 2-13: OBW measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Figure 2-14: ACPR measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23
Figure 2-15: Spectrum emission mask measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24
Figure 2-16: Intermodulation measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26
Figure 2-17: CCDF measurement (single view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27
Figure 2-18: Scale settings in the CCDF display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29
Figure 2-19: Pilot to code channel measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30
Figure 2-20: Modulation accuracy measurement-reverse link . . . . . . . . 2-34
Figure 2-21: Modulation accuracy display-reverse link . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37
Figure 2-22: EVM display-reverse link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-38
Figure 2-23: MagErr display-reverse link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39
Figure 2-24: PhaseErr display-reverse link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40
Figure 2-25: Symbol table display-reverse link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41
Figure 2-26: Code domain power measurement-reverse link . . . . . . . . . 2-42
Figure 2-27: Pilot to code channel measurement-reverse link . . . . . . . . 2-45
Figure 2-28: Gated output power measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49
Figure 2-29: Measurement limits editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-51
Figure 2-30: ACPR measurement limits editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54
Figure 2-31: Spectrum emission mask measurement limits editor . . . . 2-56
Figure 2-32: Gated output power measurement limits editor . . . . . . . . 2-58

List of Tables
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List of Tables
Table 2-1: Measurement limits items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52
Table 2-2: Measurement limit items for the ACPR measurement . . . . 2-54
Table 2-3: Measurement limit items for the spectrum emission mask
measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-56
Table 2-4: Measurement limit items for the gated output power
measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-58
Table 2-5: Forward link common limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-61
Table 2-6: Reverse link common limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-61
Table 2-7: Forward link: all band classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-62
Table 2-8: Reverse link: all band classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-62
Table 2-9: Forward link: BC (band class) 0, 2, 3, 5, and 9 . . . . . . . . . . . 2-63
Table 2-10: Forward link: BC (band class) 1, 4, and 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-63
Table 2-11: Forward link: BC (band class) 3b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64
Table 2-12: Forward link: BC (band class) 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64
Table 2-13: Forward link: BC (band class) 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-65
Table 2-14: Reverse link: BC (band class) 0, 2, 3, 5, and 9 . . . . . . . . . . . 2-65
Table 2-15: Reverse link: BC (band class) 1, 4, and 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-66
Table 2-16: Reverse link: BC (band class) 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-66
Table 2-17: Reverse link: BC (band class) 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67
Table 2-18: Forward and reverse link: BC (band class) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
7, 8, and 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67
Table 2-19: Forward link: BC (band class) 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-68
Table 2-20: Reverse link: BC (band class) 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-68
Table 2-21: Reverse link: all band classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-69
Table A-1: Display format and scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

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Preface
This manual provides operating instructions for the RSA3408A Portable Wireless
Communication Analyzers Option 25 cdma2000 analysis software.
About This Manual
This manual is composed of the following sections:
Getting Started provides a product description.
Operating Basics describes the measurement functions added by the option
and explains how to set up the analyzer for each measurement mode.
Appendices provide additional information about scale setting ranges.
The analyzer uses Microsoft Windows XP as the operating system. This manual
does not describe common usage of Windows XP. Refer to your Windows manuals
as necessary.
Related Manuals
The following documents are also available for the analyzer.
RSA3408A User Manual
(Standard accessory; Tektronix part number 071-1617-XX)
Describes how to install the analyzer and how to work with the menus, and
details the standard functions. Also shows the specifications.
RSA3408A Programmer Manual
(Standard accessory; PDF, Tektronix part number 077-0003-XX)
Contains an alphabetical listing of the programming commands and other
information related to controlling the analyzer over the GPIB interface.
PDF Manual The programmer manual described above is a PDF document (the file size is about
5 MB). The file is stored in this directory on the analyzer hard disk:
C:\Program Files\Tektronix\wca200a\Manuals
Use the USB or LAN interface to copy the file onto your PC. Refer to the
RSA3408A User Manual for using the interface.

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Contacting Tektronix
Phone [phone]*
Address Tektronix, Inc.
Department or name (if known)
14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
P.O. Box 500
Beaverton, OR 97077
USA
Web site www.tektronix.com
Sales support 1-800-833-9200, select option 1*
Service support 1-800-833-9200, select option 2*
Technical support www.tektronix.com/support
1-800-833-9200, select option 3*
6:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Pacific time
* This phone number is toll free in North America. After office hours, please leave a
voice mail message.
Outside North America, contact a Tektronix sales office or distributor; see the
Tektronix web site for a list of offices.