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UTS7000A-B160 160MHz Signal analysis bandwidth option for UTS7000A series (factory option)

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UTS7000A-B160 (160MHz Signal Analysis Bandwidth) Perfect for Wi-Fi 6/6E developers and advanced 5G engineers working with 160MHz channels and wideband carrier aggregation. Provides 160MHz real-time bandwidth ensuring 100% POI across the entire signal to capture complex multi-carrier scenarios.


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UTS7000A-B160: 160 MHz Real-Time Bandwidth Upgrade

Overview

The UTS7000A-B160 provides 160 MHz of real-time analysis bandwidth—the bandwidth that separates development tools from production-grade test instruments in the Wi-Fi and 5G era. Here's the engineering reality: 85 MHz gets you an 80 MHz Wi-Fi channel, but 160 MHz gets you the full Wi-Fi 6/6E 160 MHz channel mode, a 100 MHz 5G NR carrier with adjacent channel margin, or two complete 80 MHz channels side by side for carrier aggregation and co-existence testing. These aren't edge cases—they're the operating modes that define next-generation wireless performance.

The B160 runs on the same 1 GSa/s, 14-bit ADC path as the B40/B85 options, with 8 million IQ sample pairs per acquisition and 100% POI across the full 160 MHz span.

⚠ Factory-Installed Option: Bandwidth options require factory configuration during manufacturing. They cannot be field-upgraded. Specify UTS7000A-B160 when placing your order. Not compatible with -NB narrowband models.

What 160 MHz Gets You That 85 MHz Can't

Wi-Fi 6/6E 160 MHz Channels—Complete and Uncompromised: This is the defining application. Wi-Fi 6 introduced 160 MHz channels as a standard operating mode, and Wi-Fi 6E opens new 6 GHz spectrum where 160 MHz channels are the expected norm. At 85 MHz, you physically cannot capture a 160 MHz Wi-Fi channel—you see barely half of it, which means you can't measure EVM across the full channel, you can't verify the spectral mask at both channel edges simultaneously, and you can't detect cross-subchannel interference in 80+80 MHz non-contiguous mode. The B160 changes this completely: one real-time acquisition captures the entire 160 MHz channel, every OFDMA resource unit, every MU-MIMO stream, every management frame and data burst—with 100% POI to catch the transients that swept analysis misses.

5G NR 100 MHz Carriers with ACLR Measurement Margin: A 100 MHz 5G NR carrier (the widest single carrier in FR1) occupies approximately 98 MHz of bandwidth. At 85 MHz, you can't even fit the carrier. At 160 MHz, you capture the entire 100 MHz carrier plus 30 MHz of margin on each side—enough for meaningful ACLR measurement in real-time without switching to swept mode. This matters during PA development where you need to see spectral regrowth appear in real-time as you adjust DPD coefficients, bias points, or drive levels. The feedback loop between "tweak a parameter" and "see the ACLR change" is immediate with 160 MHz real-time bandwidth, versus interrupted and slow with swept measurements.

Dual 80 MHz Channel Co-Existence Testing: Modern wireless environments are dense. Two adjacent 80 MHz Wi-Fi channels, or a Wi-Fi channel and a 5G NR carrier sharing adjacent spectrum—these are real deployment scenarios where inter-system interference determines user experience. At 160 MHz, you see both signals simultaneously in real-time: how one affects the other, when they collide, and how their dynamic behavior interacts over time. At 85 MHz, you can only observe one at a time and piece together the interference picture from separate measurements—missing the time-correlated events that actually cause problems in the field.

Wideband Radar Pulse Compression Analysis: High-resolution FMCW and pulse-compression radar systems increasingly use chirp bandwidths of 100–150 MHz for improved range resolution. The B160 captures these complete chirps in a single real-time acquisition, enabling analysis of chirp linearity across the full bandwidth, identification of modulation-on-chirp impairments, and verification of pulse compression performance. At 85 MHz, wideband chirps are truncated, making it impossible to assess linearity or spectral purity across the full chirp bandwidth.

Wi-Fi 7 Readiness: Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) supports 320 MHz channels, but also introduces enhanced 160 MHz modes with 4K-QAM. If you're developing Wi-Fi 7 products, 160 MHz real-time bandwidth is the minimum for characterizing the 160 MHz operating modes. (For 320 MHz mode testing, the 255 MHz option provides partial coverage.)

Technical Specifications

Parameter Specification
Real-Time Analysis Bandwidth 160 MHz
I/Q Analysis Bandwidth 10 Hz to 160 MHz
RTSA Bandwidth 5 kHz to 160 MHz
ADC Sample Rate 1 GSa/s
ADC Resolution 14 bits
IQ Record Length 8,000,000 IQ sample pairs
FFT Rate 622,437/s (Nom.)
100% POI Guaranteed across full 160 MHz span
RTSA RBW Range (Kaiser Window) 553 kHz to 17.8 MHz (6 selectable values per window type)
Installation Type Factory-installed (must be specified at time of order)
Compatible Models UTS7013A, UTS7026A, UTS7032A, UTS7040A (not compatible with -NB models)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is 160 MHz bandwidth necessary if I only test 80 MHz Wi-Fi channels today?

If you're confident your requirements won't expand, the B85 handles 80 MHz channels well. But consider: Wi-Fi 6E is already shipping, Wi-Fi 7 is in development, and 5G NR carriers up to 100 MHz are deployed. If your product roadmap extends 2–3 years, the B160 provides the headroom to avoid replacing the instrument when requirements inevitably widen. Since bandwidth cannot be upgraded after purchase, this is a one-time decision.

Why not just get the 255 MHz option for maximum coverage?

The B255 is warranted if you need to test 5G mmWave 100 MHz carriers with extensive ACLR margin, ultra-wideband carrier aggregation exceeding 160 MHz, or the widest possible spectrum monitoring window. For Wi-Fi 6/6E 160 MHz development and 5G FR1 up to 100 MHz carriers, the B160 provides complete coverage at a lower investment. Choose based on your actual signal bandwidth requirements, not theoretical maximums.

Does wider bandwidth affect sensitivity?

No. The DANL specification (-167 dBm/Hz typical) is normalized to 1 Hz bandwidth and remains unchanged regardless of real-time bandwidth option. What changes is the instantaneous frequency span you can observe in real-time mode and the achievable RBW settings. Swept measurement performance is identical across all bandwidth options.

Full Wi-Fi 6E 160 MHz channel capture and 100 MHz 5G NR carriers with ACLR margin—the bandwidth modern wireless development demands.

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