Traditional FFT workflows can make it hard to connect frequency-domain issues to time-domain events. Download the app note to see how Spectrum View helps debug clocks, EMI, PLL/VCO startup and RF-adjacent behavior faster to improve power supply stability measurements.
Download the app note to learn why traditional oscilloscope FFT workflows can make it difficult to connect frequency-domain behavior to the exact time-domain event that caused it. The app note explains how Spectrum View uses patented hardware digital downconversion in Tektronix 4, 5 and 6 Series MSOs to provide synchronized waveform and spectrum views with independent controls.
It also walks through examples showing how engineers can examine:
- Spectrum Time and how spectral content changes across a captured acquisition
- RF vs. Time displays including magnitude, frequency, phase and spectrogram views
- Spread-spectrum clock startup, modulation activity and operating range
- PLL/VCO startup correlation with SPI commands, control signals and RF output stabilization
- Narrow-span, high-frequency analysis using hardware downconversion for improved frequency-domain resolution