Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Keysight Technologies, Inc.

Eric Breakenridge

Colin Johnstone

Fook Shian Toong

Chee Foo Lum

Colin Michael Arthur

Ian Reading

Alan Anderson

Su Ann Lim

Han Chern Hoe

Ling Ling Lye

Paul Duncan

Clive Robertson

An instrument for measuring a physical quantity, an instrument system having a plurality of such instruments, and a method for operating such a system are described. The instrument includes a sensor, an instrument class error calculator and a communication interface. The sensor measures the physical quantity and generates a value, Vm, for the physical quantity. The instrument class error calculator provides an instrument class error associated with Vm. The instrument system includes a plurality of these instruments that are manufactured on an ongoing basis. The instrument system includes a database that stores a measurement generated by each instrument in a sample of the instruments during manufacture and a communication link between the database and one of the instruments in the class that provides information on the instruments based on measurements made after the one of the instruments in the class was manufactured.

System and method for providing information on measurement errors for instruments

An adiabatic coaxial cable connector includes a chassis, and a planar transmission line within the chassis and having first and second ends. The coaxial cable connector further includes a first coaxial-to-planar transition within the chassis and connected to the first end of the planar transmission line, and a second coaxial-to-planar transition within the chassis and connected to the second end of the planar transmission line.

Adiabatic coaxial cable coupling

A power sensor applies respective first and second currents having substantially equal magnitudes to a reference detector and a measurement detector that are thermally coupled to each other. The power sensor senses an input signal with the measurement detector, and it adjusts the respective magnitudes of the first and second currents by substantially equal amounts to correspondingly adjust a measurement characteristic of the measurement detector.

Adjustable power sensor

A method and apparatus is provided for setting time positions of measurement gates on a signal under test. Signal transition data is calculated by a processor for multiple signal transitions. Measurement gate start and end positions are set relative to the multiple signal transitions based on the received signal transition data.

Automatic placement of measurement gates

Power measurements of a signal having a changing frequency are corrected by acquiring samples of the signal, matching the samples of the signal to a sequence of frequencies indexed to correction transforms, and applying the correction transforms to the samples of the signal. Additionally, an apparatus corrects power measurements of a signal having a changing frequency and includes an acquisition block for acquiring samples of the signal, a sequence controller for matching the samples of the signal to a sequence of frequencies indexed to correction transforms and a correction block for applying the correction transforms to the samples of the signal.

Fast correction of power measurements of signals having a changing frequency

An apparatus and method for detecting leading pulse edges of a signal includes a controller, hysteresis threshold comparators and qualification timers. The controller uses the outputs from the timers in order to determine whether or not a transition of the input signal constitutes a leading pulse edge of the input signal.

Method and apparatus for detecting leading pulse edges

In apparatus for generating a Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) curve for an input signal, an analog to digital converter (ADC) samples the input signal at sampling points to provide a parameter value corresponding to a desired parameter of the input signal at each sampled point. A memory element provides a frequency count of occurrence of each received parameter value from an address in the memory corresponding to the received parameter value. An adder receives the frequency count, increments the count and provides the incremented count to an input of the memory element for writing back into the address corresponding to the received parameter value. A CCDF curve generating module reads the frequency count stored in the memory element corresponding to each parameter value and generates a CCDF curve therefrom.

Apparatus and method for generating a complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) curve

Digital samples corresponding to a pulsed input signal are provided from an ADC to a memory for storage and to a pulse extraction circuit. The pulse extraction circuit detects the leading and trailing edges of pulses in the input signal. The digital samples are stored in both a Current memory buffer and a Next memory buffer. When a pulse trailing edge is detected, the Current buffer is stopped from storing further samples, the Next buffer becomes the Current buffer and a new buffer becomes the Next buffer. Digital data samples are then provided from the (previous) Current buffer after it has stopped storing samples.

Method and apparatus for extracting individual pulses from an input signal

A power meter is provided in which calibration is carried out as an automated procedure controlled by the meter.

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Eric Breakenridge