Does USRP B200/N200 allow to measure absolute values? Or just relative? Does it have all in one software solution ready to use after install? Or you need to spend week/month gathering information from bunch of sources? Joining software packages, fetching info between them to achieve one type of signal demodulation?
Is there software in general that gives technical parameters usable for electronics engineer? Or it just spits out final result - demodulated data?
Can you recommend good introduction/overview source for USRP B200/N200 ?
-absolute, but probably not in the same ballpark of accuracy compared to dedicated SA?
-no software, it spits pure I/Q samples, you can do whatever you like with this data stream, be it Gnuradio, Matlab, Labview
examples
Gnuradio will let you build receivers/test benches for many modulations in minutes (all gui, basically like lego)
this can go up all the way to MIMO WIFI transceivers/3G base stations/DVB transceivers, all by simply drag&dropping modules in gui
all at 1/5-1/8 of a price.
You can even get 120MHz RF BW usrp X300 cheaper than this tek SA, so BW/hardware itself is really not a strong feature of RSA306.
RSA306 is tek selling you $5K of software with free hardware dongle as a bonus.