Wi-Fi Testing
RTP5000 Real-Time USB Peak Power Sensors
Measuring the power of Wi-Fi signals is important during chipset development, access point and Wi-Fi equipped device development and manufacture, and compliance testing. Accurate test results depend on a test instrument’s ability to faithfully represent the Wi-Fi signal. This means a power sensor must have adequate video bandwidth to measure 160 MHz wide Wi-Fi channels.
Choosing an RF and microwave power measurement solution from the industry’s technology leader provides the most accurate results for today’s advanced Wi-Fi chipsets and devices. The Boonton RTP5000 Series of real-time USB peak power sensors have that industry-leading performance:
- Video bandwidth: 195 MHz
- Measurement speed: 100,000 per second
- Time resolution: 100 ps
- Sample rate: 100 MSamples/s (continuous sample rate); 10 GSamples/s (effective sample rate)
- Gap-free acquisition: Capability to collect results from a virtually unlimited number of consecutive pulses or events
Principles of Power Measurement
With today’s complex modulation schemes and pulsed communication modes, engineers must measure RF power accurately and efficiently to ensure components and systems operate at their highest level of performance. Whether in design, verification, manufacturing, installation, or maintenance, RF power measurements are among the most critical metrics for designers and operators.
The "Principles of RF and Microwave Power Measurement" poster from Boonton provides a concise overview of important power measurement topics, including the detection of RF power, rise time and video bandwidth, peak and average power, real-time processing, pulsed measurements, and statistical analysis in applications such as Radar, Wi-Fi, and Amplifier Characterization