Digital Cable TV X-Series Measurement App, Traditional UIN6152EM0D

Keysight Technologies

Digital Cable TV X-Series Measurement App, Traditional UI N6152EM0D

Technical Overview

– Measure digital cable TV RF transmitter, modulator, tuner, or amplifier performance

– Easy-to-use, standard-based preset settings

– One-button tests with pass/fail limit per J.83/A (DVB-C), J.83/B (DOCSIS DS), and J.83/C (ISDB-C) standards

– Hardkey/softkey manual user interface or SCPI remote control

– Built-in, context-sensitive help

– Flexible licensing provides the option of using perpetual or time based licenses with one or multiple signal analyzers

Digital Cable TV Measurement Application

The Keysight Technologies, Inc. N6152EM0D provides one-button, standardbased power and modulation analysis capabilities to help your design, evaluation, and manufacturing of digital cable TV modulators, transmitters, amplifiers, and tuners. With the optional analog baseband IQ inputs in the PXA or MXA signal analyzer, it can also provide the flexibility of measuring signal quality and modulation accuracy with RF input or analog IQ input.

X-Series measurement applications can help you:

– Gain more insight into device performance with intuitive display and graphs for your application. Select from our library of over 25 different measurement applications.

– Ensure that your design meets the latest standard. Updates are made to the X-Series measurement applications as standards evolve.

– Apply the same measurement science across multiple hardware platforms for consistent measurement results over your design cycle from R&D to production.

– Choose the license structure that meets your business needs. We provide a range of license types (node-locked, transportable, floating or USB portable) and license terms (perpetual or time-based).

Key parameter setup

– Radio standards: DVB-C (J.83/A), J.83/B, and J.83/C

– Symbol rate with standard default and settable by users

– Modulation: 16/32/64/128/256QAM for DVB-C and J.83/C and 64/256/1024QAM for J.83/B

– Adaptive equalizer with filter length and convergence settings

– Advanced settings: Meas interval, low SNR enhancement, out-of-band filter, and more.

– Input: RF or analog IQ (only available in the N9030A PXA or N9020A MXA) for signal quality and modulation accuracy measurements

Digital Cable TV Standards Overview

The digital cable TV measurement application includes three standards of digital video broadcasting over cable: DVB-C (J.83 Annex A), J.83 Annex B, and J.83 Annex C.

DVB-C (J.83 Annex A)

DVB-C is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable, mainly used in Europe and Asia with 8 MHz bandwidth.

J.83 Annex B (DOCSIS DS)

J.83/B, widely used in North America as digital television over cable and the same as the DOCSIS DS physical layer, has a greater difference in FEC coding and occupies a bandwidth of 6 MHz.

J.83 Annex C (ISDB-C)

J.83/C, mainly used in Japan as digital television over cable and also called ISDB-C, has identical structure as DVB-C, except for the channel bandwidth (6 MHz for J.83/C and 8 MHz for DVB-C) and roll-off factor of the baseband filter.