Patent ID: 8514919

Claim:
A system comprising: a reconfigurable synthetic instrument unit comprising: at least one input port; at least one output port; conditioning logic to condition an input signal from the at least one input port to produce a conditioned signal; a radio frequency (RE) down converter to selectively down convert the conditioned signal to produce a down converted signal; a sampled RF down converter to selectively sample the conditioned signal to produce a sampled signal; a pair of narrowband analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, wherein each of the narrowband A/D converters is configured to convert at least one signal of the group of the conditioned signal, the down converted signal and the sampled signal to produce a narrowband digital signal; a pair of broadband A/D converters, wherein each of the broadband A/D converters is configured to convert at least one signal of the group of the conditioned signal, the down converted signal and the sampled signal to produce a broadband digital signal; and signal processing logic to perform digital signal processing on at least one of the broadband digital signal and the narrow band digital signal, wherein digital components within the signal processing logic are configured to be connected together in a plurality of different configurations, wherein the conditioning logic, the RD down converter, the sampled RF down converter, the pair of narrowband A/D converters, the pair of broadband A/D converters and the signal processing logic include the ability to be configured to perform spectrum analysis at one time and include the ability to be configured at different time as a microwave transition analyzer (MTA).