Anritsu announced a new software bundle for its MS269xA Signal Analyzers to help engineers improve efficiency during development of mobile phones and cellular base stations.  The added functions are a spectrogram, spurious emissions measurements, phase noise measurements, and AM/FM measurements.

Officials said the spectrogram provides 3D changes in frequency and power in time for signals up to 125 MHz wide, while the spurious emissions measurement supports Go and No-Go evaluation and has a front end with digital IF technology using 16-bit ADC.

Phase Noise is approached with a 1-button measurement as a standard function, reporting offset values of 100 Hz, 1 kHz, 10 kHz, 100 kHz and 1 MHz, with additional markers recording the phase noise values at arbitrary offsets.  Single-button tests are also used for AM and FM measurements.

The main MS269xA system is available for EDGE, GPRS, GSM, HSPA, LTE, W-CDMA and mobile WiMAX, spanning frequency ranges of 50 Hz to 6 GHz, 50 Hz to 13.5 GHz and 50 Hz to 26.5 GHz.  Basic systems start at $37,000.