Signal Hound Spike spectrum analysis software v3.0.8

Signal Hound has updated its free Spike Spectrum Analysis software by creating a variety of digital modulation analysis tools for its BB60C and BB60A USB-powered real-time spectrum analysers.

Spike software version 3.0.8 now provides constellation diagrams, symbol tables, error-vector magnitude (EVM) measurements and bit pattern matching analysis tools for a wide range of modulation types. Coupled with a Signal Hound BB60C or BB60A spectrum analyser, the updated Spike software includes real-time tools to analyse digitally modulated signals with bandwidths to 27 MHz and frequencies from 9 kHz to 6 GHz.

The 3.0.8 update unleashes more sophisticated signal analysis of common digital modulations present in cellular telecommunications, Internet-of-things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) and other radio applications. Along with Spike’s application programming interface (API) and graphical user interface (GUI), there is significant third-party customisation potential to best fit the software to a specific application.

Future versions of Spike will include sub-1 GHz wireless standard modulation tools that include ASK, FSK, GFSK, MSK, GMSK and OOK, as well as higher order modulation analysis tools for QAM64.