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If you have the RFSoC the VNA is the low hanging fruit. If you're doing modern wireless systems measurement and testing (4G/5G) most likely you will need spect
by teleforce 3y ago
If you have the RFSoC the VNA is the low hanging fruit.
If you're doing modern wireless systems measurement and testing (4G/5G) most likely you will need spectrum analyzer (SA), vector signal analyzer (VSA) and vector signal generator (VSG).
The cost of all the disparate systems namely VNA + SA + VSA + VSG will easily cost north of USD100K for the used ones and multiple times more for the new ones. With the low cost RFSoC platform together with the standard RF test kit (attenuater, pre-amp, multiplexer, switch, etc) you are pretty good to go.
It's really perplexing that no one including the Chinese are trying to disrupt this industry, Keysight and R&S are currently charging arms and legs for their equipments even the basic one like VNA.
- bsder 3y ago> It's really perplexing that no one including the Chinese are trying to disrupt this industry No point. 1) Low volumes These things never really go obsolete and the replacement rates are abysmal. 2) Race to the bottom Once you disrupt it, everybody sees that you disrupted it, and everybody clones you and piles in. Customer support is the only differentiator. To fund that, you have to charge north of $10K per unit--generally north of $25K. Tektronix found this out the hard way with their real time spectrum analyzers. It was a nice disruption at the $5K point. Lots of people bought them. Then demand dropped like a rock because everybody who needed one bought one. And because the revenue crashed Tektronix laid off the development group--who are also the same people you need for advanced customer support.
- sitzkrieg 3y agosiglent is moving in on VNAs a bit but i absolutely agree. as a ham i could do with all of above :-)