

Use a sufficiently high number of display points to avoid misleading results. Use it to reduce relatively small peak-to-peak noise values on broadband measured data. Rather than lowering the noise floor, smoothing finds the mid-value of the data. The smoothing aperture is a percent of the swept stimulus span, up to a maximum of 20%. Smoothing computes each displayed data point based on one sweep only, using a moving average of several adjacent data points for the current sweep.

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