Technical Overviews
Keysight Technologies
Signal Studio for Short Range Communications
N7610B
Technical Overview
Simplify Short Range Communications Signal Creation
Keysight Technologies, Inc. Signal Studio software is a flexible suite of signal-creation tools that will reduce the time you spend on signal simulation. For short range communications such as IoT and M2M, Signal Studio’s performance-optimized reference signals - validated by Keysight - enhance the characterization and verification of your devices. Through its application-specific user-interface you’ll create standards-based and custom test signals for component, transmitter, and receiver test.
Component and transmitter test
Signal Studio’s basic capabilities use waveform playback mode to create and customize waveform files needed to test components and transmitters. Its user-friendly interface lets you configure signal parameters, calculate the resulting waveforms and download files for playback. The applications for these partially coded, statistically correct signals include:
Receiver test
Signal Studio’s advanced capabilities enable you to create fully channel-coded signals for receiver bit-error-rate (BER), block-error-rate (BLER), packet-error-rate (PER), or frame error rate (FER) analysis. Applications include:
More advanced capabilities operate in real-time mode, which is used to define the parameters of non-repeating and dynamically changing signals needed for receiver testing. A graphical user interface provides a direct instrument connection for parameter transfer and closed-loop or interactive control during signal generation.
Apply your signals in real-world testing
Once you have setup your signals in Signal Studio, you can download them to a variety of Keysight instruments and software platforms. Signal Studio software complements these platforms by providing a cost-effective way to tailor them to your test needs in design, development and production test.
Component and Transmitter Test
Most short range communication technologies are implemented in small, low-cost IC forms or complete drop-in modules. Whether you’re using single technology formats, such as ZigBee, or multi-format combination modules with WLAN, Bluetooth® and ZigBee, Signal Studio software provides a flexible suite of signal-creation tools to reduce receiver testing time on chip-set design, validation and troubleshooting. Combined with Keysight signal generators, the N7610B provides performance-optimized reference signals to enhance the characterization and verification of Devices Under Test (DUTs). Through its application-specific user interface, engineers can create standards-based and custom test signals for component and receiver tests.
The N7610B consists of different options that provide advanced capabilities to address applications defined in IEEE 802.15.4 for ZigBee O-QPSK/BPSK, 802.15.4g for Wi-SUN MR-FSK and MR-OFDM, and ITU-T G.9959 for Z-Wave FSK/GFSK. Use the baseband signal to perform demodulation and decoding verification on chips. To thoroughly test the demodulation capabilities of a module, a fully-coded test signal is necessary. This level of coding enables engineer to determine if each functional stage of a receiver is operating correctly and enables the use of the test signal to perform Packet Error Rate (PER) measurements
The N7610B’s graphical user interface provides a direct instrument connection for parameter transfer and closed-loop or interactive control during signal generation. After a signal is set up in Signal Studio, it can be downloaded into a variety of Keysight instruments. Signal Studio software complements these platforms by providing a cost-effective way to tailor them to the test needs in design, development and production test.
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