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Handheld Spectrum Analyser

This project was built as a school project during course titled: "Measurement and control devices". Device communicates with PC application running under Windows

 It consists of:

89S8252 '81 series uPC
i2C bus - controlled TV tuner (50-800MHz)
DC/DC converter (5V), HV display backlight  supply
simple graphical display - the character generator and all the software was implemented in '51 assembly language.
8bit ADC and 8bit DAC used to set tuner's gain and measure ones output signal 
band-pass filters bank, detectors and logarithmical amplifier 

 

    Documentation (Polish)  documentation.doc  

                                            The prototype mounted on wire-wrap board

 

                                                            Graphical display with menu

 

                                                        The device during scanning of RF band