Test and measurement (T&M) firm Agilent Technologies on Tuesday launched the E7515A UXM wireless test set for functional and RF design validation in 4G.
Agilent says the UXM provides a range of capabilities that enable testing of the newest wireless device designs, delivering LTE-Advanced category 6 now and handling increasingly complex test cases in the future.
Joe DePond, general manager of Agilent’s Mobile Broadband Operation, said: “R&D teams can test the latest LTE-Advanced features and easily enhance capabilities, performance and test coverage beyond the current 4G requirements.”
In design validation of LTE and LTE-A chipsets and user equipment, UXM enables realistic verification of bidirectional category-6 performance with throughput at 300-Mbps downlink. Engineers can further wring out new designs with flexible receiver testing and trusted transmitter measurements.
They can go deeper in functional testing with the UXM’s network emulator capabilities, including complex handover scenarios and VoLTE support. The UXM also ensures greater confidence in RF performance with flexible automated testing and Agilent X-Series measurement science.
UXM’s future-ready architecture is built to handle the next advancements in antenna techniques, component carriers and data rates. With the combination of two independent 100-MHz RF transceivers, the UXM enables multiple cells, carrier aggregation, MIMO up to 4×2, and integrated fading.
The UXM also provides built-in servers for extensive functional test applications. As device technologies change, the UXM can evolve as well: Its extensible architecture includes upgradable processors, multiple expansion slots, and high-speed interconnects.
Users can get up and running quickly with a versatile touch screen that features a new-yet-familiar interface based on popular Agilent solutions. Test teams can leverage their current libraries of test cases with backward-compatible SCPI commands.
In volume manufacturing of cellular and wireless-connectivity devices, the EXM offers ultimate scalability in performance and technology coverage, including LTE-Advanced and 802.11ac with MIMO.
The EXM can be configured with up to four independent transmit/receive channels, each with four RF ports (two full-duplex, two half-duplex). For greater scalability and port density, the EXM can be customized to connect up to 32 devices for fast-sequenced, non-signaling parallel testing. The EXM allows manufacturers to evolve their test stations and keep pace with next-generation devices and standards at the lowest cost of test.
