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X-Series Signal Analyzers

Make an Inspired Connection

Engineering is all about connecting ideas and solving problems. This experience drives the X-Series
signal analyzers: they are the benchmark for accessible performance that puts you closer to the
answer by easily linking cause and effect.

Across the full spectrum—from CXA to UXA—you’ll find the tools you need to design, test and deliver
your next breakthrough. Reach for the X-Series and make an inspired connection.

Deliver better results with a common multi-touch interface

With the X-Series, you can perform most operations in two steps or less using the streamlined,
multi-touch user interface. To ensure measurement integrity and repeatable results, we use the
same proven algorithms in every X-Series signal analyzer.

To protect your engineering investment, we’ve implemented 100-percent code compatibility

across the family, enabling you to leverage test-system software from R&D to design verification to
manufacturing.

See and understand device performance with measurement applications

and software
Easily meet specific needs by mixing and matching our analyzers, measurement applications
and software. The X-Series applications are proven, ready-to-use measurements that capture
measurement expertise and deliver repeatable results.

Our industry-leading 89600 VSA software supports more than 75 signal standards and modulation
types, helping accelerate your designs and ensuring that you can measure your signal.

Evolve with easily It starts with an optimal combination of price

and performance for whichever technology
upgradeable instruments you’re pursuing. Later, it’s an easy upgrade
to new applications and technologies using
downloadable X-Series applications and
instrument options with no downtime via
license-key upgrades. Extend longevity to keep
your test assets current.

To refresh existing instruments with the latest

operational enhancements, simply update
previous-generation X-Series analyzers with
the new multi-touch display and interface.
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Design, test and deliver your next breakthrough with the X-Series

The five models span a range of price and performance that enables you to configure and optimize the best tool for your needs.
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Create solutions that get you there faster

Whether you’re assessing transmitters, troubleshooting receivers or
analyzing over-the-air signals, the flexibility of X-Series hardware
and software lets you create the optimum solution. Our signal
analyzers are the foundation, built on Keysight measurement
science and measurement integrity. Tight integration with X-Series
applications and software puts advanced analysis and fresh insights
at your fingertips.

See and understand more with applications

The X-Series applications are proven, ready-to-use measurements for signal analysis. Capturing
measurement expertise and delivering repeatable results, the applications let you see and understand the
performance of your devices and designs:

–– Get essential measurements and troubleshooting views that simplify complex operations
–– Utilize applications that range from parametric to standards-compliant wireless measurements
–– Phase noise, noise figure, pulse analysis, analog demodulation
–– LTE/LTE-Advanced, W-CDMA, and more
–– Believe cross-platform results from applications that use the same algorithms in every X-Series model
–– Share your library of applications across multiple X-Series analyzers with transportable licenses

X-Series measurement applications allow you to see and understand the performance of your devices and designs. Convenient drop
down windows enable you to quickly configure an LTE-A FDD ETC transmitter measurement, including 256QAM demodulation.
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Explore virtually every facet of today’s most complex

signals Download your
next insight
The 89600 VSA software is a comprehensive set of tools for demodulation and vector
signal analysis. These tools enable you to explore virtually every facet of a signal and Keysight software is downloadable
optimize your most advanced designs. With support for more than 75 signal standards expertise. From first simulation
and modulation types, the 89600 VSA lets you measure your signal: through first customer shipment, we
deliver the tools your team needs to
–– Quantify spectral performance with high-resolution, FFT-based measurements accelerate from data to information to
–– Analyze time-domain signals using timing features, CCDF, and more actionable insight.
–– Characterize today’s most advanced modulation schemes with rich marker functions
and views such as constellation, EVM and decoded bits
–– Quickly confirm signal problems with the ability to display multiple simultaneous
views
–– Capture and review short-lived signal events with multi-domain digital-persistence
and cumulative-history traces

To help you pinpoint the root cause of signal problems, the 89600 VSA also provides
capture/playback capabilities that enable detailed post-processing analysis with Start with a 30-day free trial.
advanced triggering and post-capture tune-and-zoom.
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Perform pulse measurements and obtain complete

results including power, time, frequency, phase and
modulation with the X-Series application.

Use 89600 VSA software to gain deeper insights of DOCSIS 3.1 downstream signals through MER/BER summaries,
PLC decoding information, and peak MER traces on the constellation, subcarrier and symbol domains.
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UXA X-Series signal analyzer

Maximize the performance of your most

sophisticated designs

The UXA is the flagship of our X-Series signal analyzers, delivering

wide-open performance and deeper views of elusive and wideband
signals. With its 14.1-inch screen, the UXA enables you to see more
and take your design farther.

The ultimate performance of the UXA lets you characterize today’s

most challenging signals—fast-hopping, wideband, transient—in 5G,
802.11ax/ay, satellite, radar, EW and more. You’ll be able to fully
understand the purity of your design with industry-leading phase
noise and wide spurious-free dynamic range. Wide-open performance to
take your designs farther

–– Push the envelope in current- and next generation radar

and EW systems

–– Analyze bandwidth-hungry emerging standards such

as 5G and automotive radar with up to 1 GHz internal
analysis bandwidth and up to 5 GHz external

–– Diagnose subtle design issues in LOs and frequency

synthesizers

–– Detect signals as short as 3.51 µs using real-time

spectrum analysis (RTSA)

–– Record and analyze real-world environments with

gap-free streaming up to 255 MHz
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Summary of UXA Specifications

Minimum: Maximum:
Frequency Range 2 Hz N9040B: 8.4, 13.6, 26.5, 44, or 50 GHz
N9041B: 90 or 110 GHz (Up to 1.1 THz with external mixing)

Analysis Bandwidth 25 MHz (standard), 40, 255, 510 MHz, and 1 GHz

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) -174 dBm at 2 GHz with preamplifier and Noise Floor Extension turned on

Third-order Intermodulation (TOI) Distortion +23 dBm at 2 GHz

Phase Noise (10 kHz offset) -136 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz; -126 dBc/Hz at 10 GHz

Amplitude Accuracy ±0.16 dB

Spurious-free Dynamic Range (SFDR) -78 dBc nominal over 510 MHz bandwidth

N9040B: Up to 510 MHz

Real-time Bandwidth
N9041B: Up to 255 MHz

Probability of Intercept (POI) Minimal signal duration of 3.51 µs for 100% POI and full amplitude accuracy

Real-time spectrum analysis bandwidth up to 255 or

510 MHz.

Gain maximum insight with the ability to view multiple screens simultaneously on the UXA’s 14.1 inch multi-
touch display.
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PXA X-Series signal analyzer

Accelerate innovation insight with benchmark

performance in signal analysis

The PXA is the benchmark for performance that accelerates

innovation in demanding applications. With measurement options
that range from excellent to exceptional, the PXA puts you in the
lead.

Analyze the latest signals with up to 510 MHz analysis bandwidth

and better than 70 dB SFDR, and reveal previously hidden signals
with Noise Floor Extension (NFE). To see your device’s true behavior,
get industry-leading phase noise performance by adding the
Keysight-proprietary DDS-based LO. Accelerate innovation in your
most demanding applications

–– Scale performance by tailoring instrument options to

meet your needs and maximize value

–– Record, analyze and simulate real-world scenarios with

gap-free streaming up to 255 MHz

–– Meet stringent data security requirements with a

removable solid-state drive and other optional features

–– Validate challenging wideband OFDM signals with

510 MHz analysis bandwidth and DDS LO for exceptional
phase noise

–– Simplify migration with a highly code-compatible,

form/fit/function replacement for legacy spectrum
analyzers
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Summary of Key PXA Specifications

Minimum: Maximum:
Frequency Range
2 Hz 3.6, 8.4, 13.6, 26.5, 44, and 50 GHz (Up to 1.1 THz with external mixing)

Analysis Bandwidth 25 (standard), 40, 85, 160, 255, and 510 MHz

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) -174 dBm at 2 GHz with preamplifier and Noise Floor Extension on

Third-order Intermodulation (TOI) Distortion +23 dBm at 2 GHz

Phase Noise (10 kHz offset) -136 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz; -124 dBc/Hz at 10 GHz

Amplitude Accuracy ±0.19 dB

Spurious-free Dynamic Range (SFDR) -75 dBc nominal over 160 MHz bandwidth

Real-time Bandwidth Up to 510 MHz

Probability of Intercept (POI) Minimal signal duration of 3.51 µs for 100% POI and full amplitude accuracy

Get exceptional phase noise performance with optional

direct digital synthesis local oscillator (DDS LO).

Accurately measure low-level signals to reduce measurement noise by up to 10 dB with Noise Floor
Extension (NFE).
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MXA X-Series signal analyzer

Drive forward in wireless with wider

bandwidth and real-time analysis

The MXA is the optimum choice as you take new-generation wireless

devices to market. It has the flexibility to quickly adapt to evolving
test requirements, today and tomorrow.

In R&D, characterize signals from virtually any wireless device quickly

and confidently with up-to-date parametric or RF functional tests.
To shorten design verification test times, the intuitive multi-touch
interface minimizes measurement complexity, even when working
with cutting-edge devices. In 4G manufacturing, the MXA helps
you increase throughput and yield while minimizing costs with the
fastest, most accurate signal and spectrum measurements in a Develop and deliver
midrange benchtop analyzer. new wireless devices

–– Measure with greater confidence using best-in-class

phase noise performance

–– Use one instrument to analyze signals in baseband and

RF subassemblies

–– Get more complete signal characterization by capturing

longer I/Q samples

–– Test multi-channel base-station power amplifiers

–– Accurately analyze complex signals such as 802.11ac with

EVM as low as 0.3 percent (–50 dB)
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Summary of Key MXA Specifications

Maximum:
Minimum:
Frequency Range 3.6, 8.4, 13.6, 26.5, 32, 44, or 50 GHz
10 Hz
(Up to 1.1 THz with external mixing)

Analysis Bandwidth 25 (standard), 40, 85, 125, and 160 MHz

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) -172 dBm at 2 GHz with preamplifier and Noise Floor Extension on

Third-order Intermodulation (TOI) Distortion +19 dBm at 2 GHz

Phase Noise (10 kHz offset) -114 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz; -108 dBc/Hz at 10 GHz

Amplitude Accuracy ±0.23 dB

W-CDMA ACP Dynamic Range 73 dBc (78 dBc with noise correction on)

Spurious-free Dynamic Range (SFDR) -72 dBc (nominal) over 160 MHz bandwidth

Real-time Bandwidth Up to 160 MHz

Probability of Intercept (POI) Minimal signal duration of 3.57 µs for 100% POI and full amplitude accuracy

Debug transmitter designs for elusive transients with

real-time spectrum analysis.

Perform advanced demodulation analysis of the latest standards and formats.

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EXA X-Series signal analyzer

Enhance signal analysis with premium capabilities

at a cost-effective price

The EXA is your first, best choice when you need maximum value
in signal analysis up to millimeter-wave frequencies. It helps you
find the answer faster, whether you’re seeking tighter design
margins or shorter test times.

With the EXA, you can save test time in your spurious response
measurements with the fast sweep capability. To optimize mixer
levels and maximize achievable dynamic range, the EXA is avail-
able with either a 2 dB/step mechanical attenuator (all frequency
bands) or a 1 dB/step electronic attenuator (up to 3.6 GHz). Cost-effective signal analysis up to
millimeter-wave frequencies

–– Maximize speed, efficiency, throughput and value in

signal analysis

–– Enhance test margins and reduce error budgets with

excellent performance

–– Address multiple test needs with a variety of general-

purpose measurement applications and frequency
coverage

–– Meet present and future test needs with upgradeable

capabilities

–– Increase system uptime with standard two-year

calibration cycle
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Summary of Key EXA Specifications

Minimum: Maximum:
Frequency Range
10 Hz 3.6, 7, 13.6, 26.5, 32 or 44 GHz (Up to 1.1 THz with external mixing)

Analysis Bandwidth 25 (standard) and 40 MHz

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) -172 dBm at 2 GHz with preamplifier and Noise Floor Extension on

Third-order Intermodulation (TOI) Distortion +19 dBm at 2 GHz

Phase Noise (10 kHz offset) -109 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz; -102 dBc/Hz at 10 GHz

Amplitude Accuracy ±0.27 dB

W-CDMA ACP Dynamic Range 68 dBc (73 dBc with noise correction on)

Achieve the optimal balance of price and performance

with general-purpose measurements and enhanced
phase noise.

Accurately characterize signals close to the noise floor without compromising sweep speed.
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CXA X-Series signal analyzer

Master the essentials of signal characterization

The CXA is today’s leading low-cost tool for essential signal

characterization. Its capabilities provide a solid foundation for cost-
effective testing in general-purpose and educational applications.

As with all X-Series signal analyzers, PowerSuite provides one-

touch measurements of channel power, adjacent channel power
(ACP), occupied bandwidth (OBW), and more. The built-in tracking
generator enables cost-effective stimulus/response measurements
using a single instrument. For added flexibility, you can quickly and
easily reconfigure the CXA with measurement applications that fit
changing testing requirements through license-key upgrades. Enhance the educational experience
in classrooms and labs

–– Adds dependable signal analysis to manual and automated

manufacturing test systems

–– Leverage test-system software written for any X-Series signal

analyzer

–– Perform essential measurements such as spur searches and

distortion analysis

–– Accelerate product development and design enhancement while

staying within budget

–– Enhance theory with practical skills in classrooms and teaching

labs
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Summary of Key CXA Specifications

Minimum: Maximum:
Frequency Range
9 kHz 3.0, 7.5, 13.6 and 26.5 GHz

Analysis Bandwidth 10 (standard) and 25 MHz

Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) -163 dBm at 2 GHz with preamplifier on

Third-order Intermodulation (TOI) Distortion +17 dBm at 2 GHz

Phase Noise (10 kHz offset) -110 dBc/Hz at 1 GHz

Amplitude Accuracy ±0.5 dB

W-CDMA ACP Dynamic Range 66 dBc (73 dBc with noise correction on)

Simplify complex tasks using limit lines and built-in

distortion analysis measurements.

Perform essential signal characterization on signals with built-in markers and trace functions.
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