9 Best Practices for Optimizing Your Signal Generator – Part 2

9 Best Practices for Optimizing Your Signal Generator – Part 2

Application Notes

In consumer wireless, military communications, or radar, you face an ongoing bandwidth crunch in a spectrum that is filled with interference. Testing your devices via signal simulation is critical. Signal generators provide precise, highly stable test signals for a variety of components and system test applications.

Knowing the capabilities and performance of your signal generators is the first step to make accurate and consistent measurements. In this two-part Application Note, we discuss the best practices to optimize your signal generator.

Part 1:

1. Increase Amplitude Accuracy

2. Optimize Wide Bandwidth Signal Performance

Part 2:

3. Optimize Switching Speed

4. Optimize Signal Generator’s Phase Noise Profile