Test & Measurement

A commercial 5G NR network measurement solution has been unveiled by Rohde & Schwarz. A combination of the R&S TSME30DC downconverter and the R&S TSMx6 network scanner analyses 5G NR signals up to 30 GHz, covering the majority of high frequency 5G NR use cases.

Manufacturers of RF components, transmitters and modules are facing complex measurement tasks on wideband RF signals and tight time-to-market requirements, says Rohde & Schwarz. With the advances of 5G NR technology, engineers need to analyze wireless communications signals in R&D and production with test solutions supporting 5G bandwidth and RF requirements.

Approval for its cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) protocol conformance testing package, fulfilling the specification defined by the Global Certification Forum (GCF) has been announced by Rohde & Schwarz. The approval is based on tests executed using the R&S CMW500 wideband radio communication tester and R&S SMBV100A vector signal generator. 

The 5G RF Conformance Toolset from Keysight Technologies was used to submit 5G new radio (NR) standalone (SA) test cases to the Global Certification Forum (GCF), enabling the independent certification body to activate certification of 5G NR SA mobile devices based on 3GPP standards.

NaviTEK IE is the first purpose built handheld network tester from Ideal Networks. It is designed for commissioning, preventative maintenance and troubleshooting of PROFINET Industrial Ethernet networks, plus standard Ethernet IP networks. The instrument has been developed to simplify the process of testing both cabling and networks in Industrial Ethernet networks that utilise the PROFINET protocol.

The Signal Quality Analyser-R MP1900A BERT from Anritsu has been enhanced with the introduction of four PAM4 BERT options adding multichannel synchronisation, multilane FEC pattern generation for 400GbE, Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) stressed signal generation to simulate transmission path losses, and application software for capturing device under test (DUT) error counts.

A joint demonstration of Anritsu’s MT8000A 5G tester with TCL Communication’s first 5G USB device is being staged at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona (February 25-28). The TCL Communication 5G USB device is a high-speed internet access point supporting 3GPP Rel. 15 with 2-Gbps downlink and 1-Gbps uplink data rates, providing consumers with a convenient link for Cloud office applications and games.

Hard on the heels of Bluetooth SIG ratifying its core specification version 5.1 in late January, Rohde & Schwarz is now launching the first test solution as a software upgrade for the R&S CMW test platform. The test solution for Bluetooth 5.1 can be used to verify the performance of the location services that have been significantly improved with the new Bluetooth specification.

Anritsu has showcased its 5G test prowess in a joint demonstration with Inseego, a 5G and intelligent IoT device-to-cloud solutions pioneer at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In the demonstration, the Anritsu Radio Communication Test Station MT8000A will verify that the performance of an Inseego 28GHz (n261) 5G device meets the 3GPP standards for 5G New Radio (5G NR) operating at millimeter (mmWave) frequencies.

Low cost, open-source, reconfigurable instrumentation received a boost at embedded world in Nuremberg when Red Pitaya launched an uprated version of its credit-card sized STEMlab product that is tailored for HF+50MHz SDR (Software-Defined Radio)and RF applications that require DAQ systems with higher precision.