Testing

Keysight Technologies has introduced a PXIe microwave signal generator with frequency coverage up to 44GHz and modulation bandwidth up to 1GHz. This means the generator is suitbale for creating waveforms used in emerging 5G and aerospace and defense DVT applications. Its phase noise spec means that the M9383A PXIe signal generator delivers 1% EVM, an important measure of 5G modulated ...

NI introduces a vector signal transceiver (VST) with baseband test capability for 5G applications.

Cambridge-based test firm XJTAG joins with Flying Test Systems to apply its boundary scan test tools in a range of design for test services.

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced an analogue RF and microwave signal generator with very low phase noise and high output power. The result is a signal generator which can match higher output power and a spurious free dynamic range. Designated the R&S SMA100B, which comes as a 6GHz instrument capable of generating up to 38dBm RF output power, or a ...

Microlease is packaging up selected sets of equipment and test gear for aerospace and defence customers. Called the Aerospace and Defence Tool Box, it supports a range of activities including producing, commissioning or repairing equipment such as radar, microwave communication, mobile radio, satellite testing and electronic security systems. The range of equipment available includes analysers, signal generators and other instruments that are ...

Making industrial networks in factories more secure to cyber attacks is the aim of a test system from Rohde & Schwarz. In-factory industrial control networks based on the Modbus comms protocols become much more vulnerable due to their increasing connection to the Internet. The protocol lacks built-in security measures, which makes it easy for cybercriminals to exploit industrial systems and ...

Qualcomm Technologies has selected a RF test system from Rohde & Schwarz to test and characterise its first generation 5G RF transceiver (SDR051). Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X50 5G modem platform in October 2016. It is designed to support download speeds of up to 5Gbit/s, initially using very wide bandwidths available in the 28GHz millimetre wave (mmWave) band. Sampling of ...

Collaborative research taking place between the Universities of Bristol and Lund, National Instruments and BT has set up field trials of a massive MIMO system working in a large indoor environment. The aim was to test massive MIMO spatial multiplexing indoors and improve the understanding of massive MIMO radio channels under mobile conditions with untethered devices. As a result of ...

Giovanni D’Amore discusses approaches to characterising both dielectric and magnetic materials using impedance analysers and specialist fixtures. We are used to thinking about technological progress in terms of mobile phone model generations, or semiconductor manufacturing process nodes. These provide a useful shorthand, but overshadow progress in enabling technologies, such as those in materials science. Anyone who has taken the back ...

TiePie Engineering of the Netherlands has introduced a 1Gsample/s four-channel PC oscilloscope with differential capability. Called Handyscope HS6 DIFF, is connects via USB 3.0 and is available in versions down to 50Msample/s. The firm has included what it calls ‘SafeGround‘ technology, claimed to prevent damage if inputs are switched from differential to single-ended without thinking. “SafeGround allows you to use the oscilloscope ...