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Noeldi,
Good question, and it’s a bit tricky to answer. Our waterfall plot currently is only available in the sweep mode. Each sweep is plotted on the waterfall and generally each sweep is going to take 1ms+ depending on the analyzer and settings. So that would be your minimum resolution.
To get 10us resolution in a waterfall plot, we would need to introduce the waterfall plot into the zero-span mode (or some other I/Q mode) and perform overlapping FFT’s on the IQ data. We don’t have anything like this in Spike right now.
As Justin mentioned, our max bandwidth IQ device is 40MHz right now with the SM200A, or 27 MHz with the BB60C. Both are programmable and this type of resolution is possible if you were willing to program and work with the I/Q data yourself using our API.
We are working to increase the I/Q bandwidth of the SM200A to 160MHz for up to 1 second captures. This is still in development.
Regards,
Andrew