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Digital Broadcast Analysis (DBA) Software

Solve your digital broadcast analysis needs

The DBA analysis tool allows the digital broadcast design engineer and network technician to easily add all the required modulation quality and quality of service capabilities to their Tektronix Real-Time and Portable Spectrum Analyzer. The DBA analysis tool combined with the extraordinary spectrum analysis, transient capture, and frequency mask trigger capabilities of the Tektronix RTSA architecture will result in the perfect tool offering all the measurement capabilities required to fully characterize and diagnose any digital broadcast transmitter without requiring any extra tool. The built-in Transport Stream extraction capability along with the Tektronix MTS4SA closes the loop allowing for content analysis and complete cause-effect analysis. DBA offers a set of capabilities needed to characterize digital broadcast signals such as:

  • Modulation analysis: MER (Modulation Error Ratio), MER vs Carrier, MER vs. Carrier vs. Time (MERGram), and selective constellation display.
  • Complete Automatic Spectrum Quality Analysis as defined by the TR101/ETR290 standard.
  • Complete channel response characterization in both time and frequency domains.
  • Full Quality of Service Assessment at the transport layer as per TR101/ETR290 standard.
  • Full TPS analysis and consistency check.


Measurements may be performed over live signals allowing for the interactive measurements environment involved in equipment alignment and adjustments or over recorded data so triggered captures may be analyzed off-line. The DBA software can be run in any Windows based PC but it has been tailored to run right in the target instrument if desired. The display can show up to 4 simultaneous analysis windows and can be easily handled with a mouse and the RTSA embedded keyboard.

CHARACTERISTICS

Modulation Scheme Support

Characteristics

Description

DVB-T

2K/8K Modes, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM Constellations

DVB-H

2K/4K/8K Modes, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM Constellations

Channel Bandwidth

5, 6, 7, and 8MHz

Hierarchical Modulation (DVB Only)

Yes, alfa=1, 2, 4

Guard Interval

1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32

Convolutional Encoder Code Rate

1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8

Spectrum Analysis

Characteristics

Description

Spectrum Display

Raw spectrum, filtered spectrum

Shoulder Attenuation (dB)

Left, Right, and Mean

Spectrum Flatness (dB)

Over the entire channel

Channel Response

Characteristics

Description

Channel Response Graphs

Magnitude (Time Domain), Magnitude/Phase (Frequency Domain)

Channel Response Characterization

Automatic transmitter identification for SFN (Table)

Modulation Quality

Characteristics

Description

Constellation Display

Data, TPS, Continual Pilots, and Scattered Pilots constellation may be activated and deactivated independently

MER

Shown in % and dB for each OFDM symbol and averaged.

MER Advanced Analysis

MER vs Carrier, MER vs Carrier vs Time (MERGram)

Constellation /MER Analysis Range

Analysis can be performed on a user-defined limited range of symbol/carriers

STE (System Target Error)

Mean and Deviation for each OFDM symbol

Constellation Integrity

Amplitude Imbalance (AI) Quadrature Error (QE), and Phase Jitter (PJ) for each OFDM symbol

Quality of Service

Characteristics

Description

BER before Viterbi

Available for each OFDM symbol as an accumulated average

BER before Reed-Solomon

Available for each OFDM symbol as an accumulated average

PER (packet error ratio)

Percentage of TS packets with errors

TPS

TPS content is decoded and displayed with consistency check.

System Integration

Characteristics

Description

Supported Instruments

Tektronix RSA3300 (A/B), RSA3400(A/B), RSA6100, and WCA200A series of Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers. H600 and SA2600 series of Portable Spectrum Analyzers.

Interfacing

Software can run inside the RTSA or remotely through GPIB and Ethernet. It can analyze iqt and tiq files from all the supported instruments off-line.
Data Export All measurements and tables may be exported. MPEG2 Transport Streams may be extracted for further content analysis.

Warranty

One year against any media defect or software bug.