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1. wiseSentinel RTSA lite User Manual Software version 1 0 x x August 15 2014 wiseSense GmbH www wisesense net wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH Contents August 15 2014 2 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 1 Information 1 1 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSentinel RTSA lite can be used to visualize the spectrum in real time or to do measurement and decoding of captured IQ signals offline 1 2 About wiseSense GmbH wiseSense GmbH is a technology oriented company situated in Hanover the state capital of Lower Saxony The intelligent efficient and consistent management of different coexisting wireless services in professional and in dustrial applications is the key asset which wiseSense GmbH is offering its customers and partners in both the electronic amp electrical engineering in dustry and machine amp equipment manufacturing The staff members of wiseSense GmbH are experts in wireless with indepth knowledge of technologies standards and regulation wiseSense GmbH has a wide record of expertise in the area of wireless network monitoring and analyzis cognitive coexistence management of heterogeneous wireless envi ronments softwaredefined cognitive radio systems and webbased solutions for monitoring and reconfiguration Our product portfolio helps you plan check and manage the coexistence of wireless systems in their entirety and according to your needs The products are2. Mode A Block Tye ZIF pe yiii Samplerate 125 000 MHz BlockSize 1024 BlockCount 256 wisesense Project Here you can open and close the devices and enable or disable fullscreen mode Acquisition Controls the Digitizer hardware In this panel you can change the Center Frequency Sampling rate and other digitizer pa rameters Layout Controls which panels you want to use Marker Set and check the values of the markers in the spectrum panel Spectrum Controls the spectrum panel Spectrogram Controls the spectrogram panel August 15 2014 11 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 6 Menus Some of the most important menu items can also be accessed via the control panel interface 6 1 Project Provides menu to open and close the device quit the application or open saved IQ data files Project Open File Opens a file instead of a RF digitizer device This is to be used for offline analyzis of already stored data Project Open thinkRF Opens the dialog box that scans for thinkRF devices If the device is not found during the scan the IP address of the device can be entered manually if needed Project Close Device Closes the device this is useful to avoid the autoconnect to use the last used device when you start the application the next time Project Save IQ Samples Save IQ data to an iqw file Project Fullscreen Toggles
3. cy range 10 MHz to 20 GHz using very broad instan taneous bandwidth of e g max 100 MHz f RF Sensor Multi level lan trigger 1024pt Trigger _ jan FFT Unit I Q Buffer 2 4 GHz 2 484 GHz BW 84 MHz save Q data on triggered event As illustrated in Figure 1 the RF digitizer downconverts the received RF signals from a monitored frequency range e g the 2 4 GHz ISM frequency band to baseband and continuously performs a Discrete Fourier Transform through an efficient Npt FFT operation Subsequent calculation of the signal Power Spectral Density PSD allows to set specific trigger mask in the frequency domain to filter out desired undesired portions of the signal The trigger unit then controls the output of an IQ buffer that permanently stores the data of interest for further analyzis Main requirements are e Tunable frequency range and resolution bandwidth e Large acquisition bandwidth e High dynamic range acquisition e Display of multiple traces e g MaxPeak MinPeak Average Max Hold RMS Sample e Frequency mask triggering FMT August 15 2014 4 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH e Marker and peak search capabilities e Statistical reporting of spectrum utilization Application e Real Time Spectrum Analyzis e Spectrum Rating August 15 2014 5 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 3 Installation 3 1 System Requirements e thinkRF WSA5000 o
4. e FFT Fast Fourier Transform FM Frequency Modulation FMT Frequency Mask Trigger FSK Frequency Shift Keying HDR High Dynamic Range ISM Industrial Scientific and Medical NRE None Recurring Engineering PSD Power Spectral Density RFE Receiver Front End RTSA Real Time Spectrum Analyzis SH Super Heterodyne ZIF Zero Intermediate Frequency August 15 2014 17
5. especially optimized for users with applications in the wireless process or production automation but even users in other application areas can benefit wiseSense GmbH is offering its technology as Original Equipment Manufac turer OEM solutions or Intellectual Property IP cores for easy integra tion in your product portfolio We are also pleased to provide you with our development services to meet your specific needs 1 3 Copyright Copyright 2014 wiseSense GmbH All rights reserved 1 4 Disclaimer The information in this document is provided as is and represents the best knowledge of the authors No warranty and no liability of the authors or the wiseSense GmbH can be concluded under any conditions or circumstances August 15 2014 3 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 2 General System Concept The users of professional wireless systems face the challenge of having no adequate tool for radio spectrum monitoring and signal probing in case of interferences e g in the 2 4 GHz ISM band that can operate over a longer time frame 1 day to 1 week The wiseSentinel RTSA lite aims to fill this gap by providing a com plete solution for debugging the radio spectrum with help of real time radio spectrum monitoring and spectrum rating The general system con cept is based on a Remote Radio Spectrum Hardware Package e g thinkRF WSA5000 RF Digitizer capable of acquiring continuous blocks of IQdata over a high frequen
6. evice sample rate August 15 2014 13 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH Device WindowFunction Selects the Window to be applied on the IQ data before the FFT For a description on the different window functions consult wikipedia or textbooks FlatTop Recommended for CW tones as the power is spread into many frequency bins Gauss General Purpose Hamming Default Device gt RX Selects device dependand RX options For the WSA 5000 you can select the capture mode and control the input attenuator here 6 4 Spectrum Spectrum Spectrum Select the type of Spectrum that should be shown Simple Shows Peak signal with the optional maxhold average signal traces Colormap Colormap density spectrum Density Monochrome density spectrum Persistant Time delayed spectrum Spectrum Colormap Selects the colormap used for the Spectrum Display Jet Rainbow Fire Greyscale Spectrum Show Selects the secondary functions shown in the spectrum plot i e maxhold average signal trigger and markers August 15 2014 14 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH Spectrum Marker Autoset Enables all markers and sets them around the cursor Spectrum Marker A B Controls frequency markers Once the markers are displayed you can drag them by selecting the marker and dragging them with the mouse Spectrum Marker C D Controls power level markers Spectrum Trigger Controls sof
7. network and show the devices found The scan will be done when opening the panel if no device is shown please close the dialog and reopen it You can also enter the IP address of the device manually As broadcast packets are used for device discovery the firewall must be configured to pass these packets onto the application for the auto discovery to work in our experience this applies mainly for Linux installations wiseSentinel RTSA tat x Analyss Device Spektrum Waterfall Timeline Debug About meline 15 22 26 417 22 22317 4864 WISEGeNSe 4 3 Panels Spectrum Provides a front view of the spectrum with or without persistance Spectrogram Provides a top view of the spectrum with the power level beeing color coded August 15 2014 7 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 4 4 User Interface The user interface consists of different panels that can be enabled or disabled depending on the current need Label Area View Area WISPSETISE Each panel contains 3 parts one Label Area to the left the main signal View Area and an Info Area to the right On the right side a control panel can be shown to allow for operation with a touch screen computer for example for the Android version of wiseSentinel RTSA lite The control panel is shown hidden if you press the config button on the menu in the right side of the menubar or the wiseSense logo on the bottom of the screen On the left side a text output
8. panel for information from the decoder or other program information can be enabled The text output panel is enabled by selecting this in the menu By default both the text panel and the touch panel are disabled In the case no devices has been preselected the device open panel will be shown when starting the application 4 5 Control panel Touching or pressing left mousebutton in the info panel a control panel opens that allows you to configure the operation of wiseSentinel RTSA lite using a touch screen In the control panel one can also use keyboard input to enter values 4 6 Text Panel Provides error and log message in text form or the output of decoder oper ations August 15 2014 8 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 4 7 Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts can be found in the corresponding menus 4 8 Spectrum Panel aia 4 Mah wala INN i hh nit l ni il i Mouse left button If you press the mouse in the spectrum the current frequency is shown and maxhold and average for the current position are displayed Mouse right button The spectrum context menu will be shown Markers Use the menu or the control panel to enable the markers Once they are enabled the marker lines can be moved around with the mouse In the info panel you can see the current values for all markers and the difference between the A B and C D markers Trigger Use the menu or the control panel to enable the marke
9. r other supported RF digitizer e Windows 7 64bit or Windows8 1 64bit e LAN Quad core CPU or 2 2 with hyperthreading e At least 4 GB RAM e For capturing application it is recommended to have an SSD 3 2 Install Run the installer for wiseSentinel RTSA lite this will install all needed soft ware and create a program menu shortcut The C runtime will be installed if it is not already present on the system 3 3 First run You will need to configure your capture device the first time you run the application Use the Project Open to open a connection to the RF capture device The wiseSentinel RTSA lite will store its settings in the registry so you will not need to reconfigure the device every time you start the application August 15 2014 6 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 4 wiseSentinel RTSA lite 4 1 Overview The wiseSentinel RTSA lite is a software solution for Real Time Spectrum Analyzis RTSA combined with distinct functionalities for radio spectrum monitoring and radio spectrum rating The wiseSentinel RTSA lite func tionalities will be improved by modules based on developments done for other products by cooperation with partners or by modules developed on customer request 4 2 Quick Start In the project menu either open the IQ file to be analyzed or the RF capture device to provide the IQ source When opening an thinkRF WSA device wiseSentinel RTSA lite will scan for devices on the local
10. rs Once they are enabled the trigger lines can be moved around with the mouse 4 9 Spectrogram Panel Provides a top view of the spectrum with the signal power beeing color coded The colormap used for the power levels can be switched and the low level and high level in the mapping can be adjusted in the colorbar on the left side Mouse left button If you press and hold the left mouse button in the spectrogram the delta time and delta frequency will be shown in the Info Area August 15 2014 9 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH Mouse right button The spectrogram context menu will be shown Adjusting levels dBm To move the upper level press the left mouse button on the top the colorbar and move the mouse with the button pressed When finished release the mouse button To move the lower level press the left mouse button on the bottom of the colormap lower part and move the mouse with the button pressed To move the both lower and upper range press the left mouse button in the area right of the colorbar and move the mouse with the button pressed August 15 2014 10 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH 5 Control Panel To enable the control panel press in the information area on the right of the view of spectrum spectrogram The control panel will open To close the panel touch the view area Center _ 2450 000 MHz Span 100 000 MHz Min Freq 2399 951 MHz Max Freq 2500 049 MHz
11. the operation in full screen mode this will disable the default win dow handling Project Quit Closes the application 6 2 Acquisition Acquisition Toggle Toggles between capture and pause mode This is available once the wiseSentinel RTSA lite is registered This is available once the wiseSentinel RTSA lite is registered August 15 2014 12 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH Acquisition Single Captures one block and then goes into pause mode Acquisition Triggered Captures only blocks according to the currently defined trigger Acquisition SingleShot Captures one block according to the currently defined trigger and goes into pause mode Acquisition ClearCache Clears the caches for example for maxhold 6 3 Device Change the device specific settings Device Frequency Provides a drop down menu for quick access to selected frequency bands for example the DECT at 1880 1900 MHz or WLAN bands Device CalibrateIQ Selects the algorithm to use for IQ imbalance compensation for ZIF based reciever modes Device CaptureMode Selects between Block capture Stream capture or Sweeping operation Device CaptureType Selects type of receiver front end RFE mode For the WSA5000 the following modes are available SH Super Heterodyne SH receiver with 40 MHz bandwidth default SHN SH mode with 10MHz bandwidth Device Samplerate Selects the d
12. tware or hardware trigger Spectrum Frequency Adjust the center frequency to the position selected 6 5 Spectrogram Spectrogram Colormap Selects the colormap used for the Spectrogram Display August 15 2014 15 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH A Additional Information A 1 Supported Devices thinkRF WSA4000 Limited support thinkRF WSA5000 V1 Limited support thinkRF WSA5000 V2 A 2 Supported File Formats File formats supported for input are wiseSense iqw Native format Tektronix iqt Only files with IQ data are supported Binary IQ data in int16 int32 or float formats without header CSV Comma Separated Whitespace If you have issues reading 3rd party files please provide wiseSense with an example so we can analyze this A 3 WSA 5000 Configuration Use the web page of the WSA 5000 to configure the IP address time and to update the firmware USB console If the network address of the WSA 5000 is unknown use the procedure in the WSA5000 manual on how to reset the IP address to use DHCP Network ports Communication and datatransfer is done on the ports 37000 37001 The broadcast detect packet is sent to port 18331 3If you need other formats please contact info wisesense net for NRE August 15 2014 16 wiseSentinel RTSA lite wiseSense GmbH B Abbreviations ACQ Acquisition AM Amplitude Modulation AMPL Amplitude ASK Amplitude Shift Keying CF Center Frequency CW Continuous Wav
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