TSP #259 - HAROGIC SAE-20 Real-Time 20GHz Portable Spectrum Analyzer Review, Teardown & Experiments
In this episode Shahriar takes a detailed look at the “pocket-sized” HAROGIC real-time 20GHz spectrum analyzer. With its 100MHz of analysis bandwidth and FPGA based signal processing, it is both powered and operates from USB-C ports:
https://rf-instruments.eu/products/sa-series/sae-200/
This review is organized as follows:
00:00 – Introductions
00:36 – Instrument overview, ports and interfaces
02:09 – Performance metrics & data-sheet details
05:39 – Complete teardown with analysis of all RF & digital boards
18:23 – Overall instrument architecture, signal & data paths
19:14 – GUI overview, purity, phase noise measurement, front-end & dynamic range
25:17 – Spurious tone, spectral purity & harmonic rejection in sweep modes
28:18 – Third order intercept, input linearity, IM3 measurement & optimization
32:10 – Real-Time mode, frequency hopping detection, plot persistence & spectrogram
35:58 – AM modulation, pulse/power detection & triggering modes
39:25 – I/Q streaming mode, modulation analysis, power versus time & I/Q versus time
47:49 – Additional features & API interface benefits
48:31 – Concluding remarks
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