Digital Library

Digital Document Library — Your source for critical communications technology documents, guides and specifications, intended as reference material.

Application Documents

  • Next to being a PNM-expert, Brady Volpe, MSEE, is also one of the leading specialists for DOCSIS. This website holds a plethora of articles and podcasts on DOCSIS operations in modern communications networks, emphasizing on making complicated matters easy to understand. A “must-hit” site in your quest to understand the world of DOCSIS.
  • This app note from Agilent is a premier tutorial on spectrum analyzer basics, but it does not stop there. It goes into much of the mathematical details of how correction coefficients are calculated for digital signals -- A “must-read” for anyone in broadband communications.
  • When using a spectrum analyzer in any system, it is likely that one will attempt to measure signals very close to the noise floor. Making these kinds of measurements will cause errors. The document explains why and how to correct for the errors.