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E1963A W-CDMA Mobile Test Application

Technical Overviews

Technical Overview

Introduction

Accelerate UMTS test plan development and get your devices to market sooner, while ensuring compliance with TS 34.121-1 test standards.

The Keysight Technologies, Inc. E1963A W-CDMA mobile test application, when used with the Keysight GSM, GPRS, and EGPRS applications, is the industry standard for universal mobile telecommunications (UMTS) mobile test.

Keysight’s 8960 (E5515C/E) test set provides you with a single hardware platform that covers all the UMTS/3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) radio formats: W-CDMA, HSPA, GSM, GPRS, EGPRS, and TD-SCDMA.

Exceed your calibration test time goals with the E1999A-202 fast device tune measurement. Simultaneously calibrate your device’s transmitter (Tx) output power and receiver (Rx) input level across level and frequency. E1999A-202 is a superset of the discontinued E1999A-201.

It not only offers the equivalent capabilities of the E1999A-201, it is enhanced to reduce the calibration test times for W-CDMA, cdma2000®, and 1xEV-DO wireless devices with smaller step size support (10 ms step size versus 20 ms step size).

Reach your high-volume production goals by moving prototypes quickly into production with this test solution’s fast and repeatable measurements, accurate characterization, and ease of programming.

The HSPA, W-CDMA, GSM, GPRS, and EGPRS product combination delivers a complete and integrated UMTS test solution in a single box. FM radio source, a single channel GPS source (E1999A-206), and PESQ measurement (E1999A-301) are also added into the test box for FM radio receiver calibration, GPS receiver calibration, and audio quality test without the need for an external audio analyzer. This fast, one-box approach simplifies your production process and increases your production line effectiveness.

With the most complete test functionality for 3GPP TS 34.121-1 Section 5 and 6 tests, E1963A HSPA Options 403, 405, 413, 423, 433, and 435 provide fast, flexible measurements and options in user equipment (UE) connectivity, giving design and manufacturing test engineers more flexibility in creating test plans and the assurance that designs meet technology standards.

Option 433 provides you with the functionality to test 42 Mbps downlink dual carrier (DC-HSDPA) and dual band dual carrier HSDPA (DB-DC-HSDPA) throughput in RB test mode and FDD test mode connection, and Option 435 allows validation of single and dual stream MIMO using 16QAM for a maximum data rate of 28 Mbps or 64QAM for 42 Mbps in RB test mode and FDD test mode connection.

Key Capabilities

- CS voice handovers between GSM and W-CDMA on two test sets

- Fast device calibration across level and frequency simultaneously

- Test HSDPA MIMO devices (HS-DSCH categories 15-20) as defined in 3GPP TS 34.121-1

- Test devices that support downlink dual carrier and dual band dual carrier (HS-DSCH categories 20-24)

- Test HSPA devices (HS-DSCH categories 1-14, 17-18 and E-DCH categories 1-7) as defined in 3GPP TS 34.121-1

- Switch between HSPA sub-test conditions while on an active connection

- Test all UMTS technologies with one connection maintained throughout

- Test all frequency bands I through XIV, XIX, XX, and XXI

- FM and GPS receiver calibration in one box

- Test vocoder speech quality using the industry standard PESQ algorithm

Related Literature Technical Specifications

The Most Complete Test Functionality for HSPA/W-CDMA Wireless Devices, photocard, (5989-3414EN) Keysight 8960 Wireless Communications Test Set HSPA Applications, photocard, 5989-7515EN 8960 Series 10 Wireless Communications Test Set, configuration guide, 5968-7873E

Technical Specifications

These specifications apply to an E5515C/E mainframe with Option 003 when used with the latest E1963A test application or the E1987A test application.

Specifications describe the test set’s warranted performance and are valid for the unit’s operation within the stated environmental ranges unless otherwise noted. All specifications are valid after a 30-minute warm-up period of continuous operation.

Supplemental characteristics are intended to provide typical, but non-warranted, performance parameters that may be useful in applying the instrument. These characteristics are shown in italics and labeled as “typical”. All units shipped from the factory meet these typical numbers at +25 °C ambient temperature without including measurement uncertainty.

What is Included in This Technical Overview

This data sheet is organized in four sections:

- HSPA specifications

- W-CDMA specifications

- HSPA and W-CDMA common technical specifications

- General specifications

Call connection types

HSPA FDD test mode

HSPA FDD test modes are supported by the E1963A. FDD test mode provides Layer 1 functionality only. No higher-level signaling is provided or accepted. No higher-level call processing operations are performed. The test set assumes that you have appropriately configured the UE.

FDD test mode allows you to test the parametric performance of your UE’s transmitter and receiver without call processing. In FDD test mode, the test set does not send any signaling information on the downlink. Rather, it continuously generates a downlink signal and searches for a corresponding uplink signal.

The UE must synchronize to the downlink signal and send an appropriate uplink signal, which the test set uses to measure the UE’s transmitter and receiver performance. Any changes to the UE configuration must be accomplished by directly sending commands to the UE from a system controller through a proprietary digital interface.

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