Mar 24, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The Elektrobit Propsim F8 from Elektrobit (EB) is the industry’s first commercially available MIMO OTA emulator to increase the performance and data rate of MIMO mobile terminals...
Mar 23, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Aeroflex and NetHawk have developed a complete system for LTE network capacity testing over RF with real data services and applications. The EAST500 is a single integrated test system based upon Aeroflex’s LTE RF air interface technology integrated with NetHawk’s load test capability...
Mar 16, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Pantek will use Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS) software to develop tunable antenna modules for mobile handsets. ADS targets RF, microwave, and signal integrity applications....
Feb 18, 2010
A recent option allows the MT8221B BTS Master handheld basestation analyzer from Anritsu Co. to accurately and easily measure all defined LTE bandwidths and frequencies. According to the company, it’s the first handheld instrument to cover LTE end to end...
Feb 5, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
ASTRI has successfully verified its TD-LTE femto basestations using equipment provided by Rohde & Schwarz. ASTRI and R&S tested the HARQ and timing-advance functionality of the basestations under real-time conditions for the first time....
Jan 25, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Engineers can use the National Instruments Measurement Suite for Mobile WiMAX software suite with modular RF instrumentation for the automated testing of Mobile WiMAX devices....
Jan 8, 2010,
MD&D Home Page
During the 2010 International CES, LG and Anritsu demonstrated maximum download speeds from a simulated LTE network to the LG LTE USB modem with the MD8430A Signaling Tester serving as the LTE basestation and network simulator. The MX786201A RTD software was used for test automation. ...
Nov 25, 2009,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The Berkeley Varitronics Systems Yellowjacket portable b/a/n/g tablet analyzer combines a spectrum analyzer and a packet analyzer into a single handheld test instrument for WLAN testing....
Nov 16, 2009,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Separate individual vector signal analyzers and vector signal generators make up the usual test setup for cell phones and other wireless products. Aeroflex, though, has put both units into the 7000 series vector analyzer generator (VAG). This fully integrated RF parametric test system is designed for RF testing of wireless components and subsystems. ...
Nov 9, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Equipped with the company’s FSV-K70 vector signal analyzer application, the Rohde & Schwarz FSV signal and spectrum analyzer demodulates digitally modulated signals down to the bit level. This option addresses users in development and manufacturing who work with digitally modulated RF signals....
Oct 29, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
The DPO7000 series of oscilloscopes from Tektronix Inc. now supports the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) D-PHY standard. These devices also now include UART/RS-232 protocol analysis software as well as four passive probes and three analysis tools as part of their standard configurations. ...
Oct 2, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Speed is a major issue for design verification testing and especially for production testing. Shorter test times reduce time-to-market and can greatly reduce production testing time as well as costs. Keithley Instruments designed its 2920A vector signal generator with speed in mind....
Sep 14, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
The AWG7000B series arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) from Tektronix provide up to 24 Gsamples/s and 10-bit vertical resolution. According to the company, this performance delivers the industry’s best signal stimulus solution for ever-increasing measurement challenges....
Aug 27, 2009,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Anritsu’s E platform handheld analyzers make it easier for techs and engineers who service basestations to provision new equipment, search for problems that cause dropped calls, or perform routine antenna and line maintenance. The Site Master, Spectrum Master, Cell Master, and BTS Master also can reduce costs and test times. ...
Aug 26, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Agilent Technologies has added cdma2000 perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) measurement functionality to its 8960 wireless communications test set. With this capability, the company says, wireless engineers can enhance the end-user experience by providing an objective measurement of audio quality in digitally vocoded voice. ...