A communications test and measurement solution for 3GPP LTE-Advanced, LTE,W-CDMA, HSPA+, E-EDGE (EDGE Evolution), has been developed by Agilent Technologies Inc. The commercial design support for the physical layer of 3GPP release 10 enables system and algorithm developers to explore working 8×8 MIMO LTE-Advanced reference designs, built from a comprehensive library of over 170 of Agilent baseband models and testbenches.
Users can compare their Release 10 algorithms in a variety of formats, such as C++, .m, or VHDL/Verilog, to the company’s W1918 reference library. They can directly download test vectors to instruments for early and continuous hardware validation, accelerating design maturity. Now the W1715 MIMO Channel Builder and W1716 Digital Pre-distortion applications also support Release 10.
LTE-Advanced signal generation and analysis tools, enable design engineers to start testing LTE-Advanced physical layer implementations immediately.
Using the RDX (Radio Digital Cross-Domain) Solution, provides a single test environment that helps engineers validate DigRF v4 protocols under real-world conditions. The protocol generation and analysis software interoperates with the company’s Signal Studio software and 89600B VSA software to enable RF physical domain stimulus and analysis across an RF-IC chip.
MIMO handset antenna design and handset verification for MIMO handset acceptance testing uses over-the-air test methods based on the company’s PXB baseband generator and channel emulator. The PXB gives engineers test performance in real-world conditions and closely characterises end-user environments.
This is a targeted solution, optimised for development phase testing. The PXT is designed for radio frequency characterisation, protocol test and functional test of LTE user equipment.
