Agilent claims world's fastest USB power sensors

Agilent Technologies Inc. released the Agilent U2020 X-series, which it claims incorporates the world's fastest USB power sensors. With the peak and average power measurement capabilities of a power meter, these high-performance sensors were designed to be compact and allow engineers to test devices faster and with greater efficiency and accuracy.

Key Features:
•    Frequency range of 50 MHz to 40 GHz
•    Dynamic range of -30 to +20 dBm (peak/gated) -35 to +20 dBm (average)
•    30 MHz video bandwidth
•    Single shot real time capture at 80 Msample/s per second
•    Internal zeroing & calibration
•    Measurement speed of > 3500 readings/second (free run/fast buffer mode

Agilent's U2020 X-series sensors also come with built-in trigger functions that allow triggering of small signals close to the signal noise floor. The trigger-out port enables users to perform data logging while the video-output feature allows the use of the USB sensors with an oscilloscope as an alternative method to display pulse signals and measure pulse parameters.

Applications include: manufacturing lines and field applications such as base-station maintenance.

U.S. Pricing and Additional Information
The U2020 X-series USB peak and average power sensors are now available worldwide. The U2021XA (50 MHz to 18 GHz) and U2022XA (50 MHz to 40 GHz) are priced at $6,700 and $7,100, respectively.

More information: Product web page.