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N7610B Signal Studio for Short Range Communications

Technical Overviews

Keysight Technologies

Signal Studio for Short Range Communications

N7610B

Technical Overview

  • Create Keysight validated and performance-optimized reference signals compliant to IEEE 802.15.4 (for ZigBee), 802.15.4g (for Wi-SUN) and ITU-T G.9959 (for Z-Wave) PHY standards
  • Support ZigBee 2.4 GHz O-QPSK and BPSK modulation and spreading as defined in IEEE 802.15.4
  • Support Wi-SUN mandatory profiles for MR-FSK and MR-OFDM PHY mode, respectively
  • Support Z-Wave R1/R2/R3 data rate modes as defined in ITU-T G.9959
  • Provide signals with full-channel coding, flexible configuration of MAC headers and data types for receiver testing
  • Accelerate the signal creation process with a user interface based on parameterized and graphical signal configuration and tree-style navigation

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:

  • Parametric test of components, such as amplifiers and filter
  • Performance characterization and verification of RF sub-systems

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:

  • Performance verification and functional test of receivers, during RF/baseband integration and system verification
  • Coding verification of baseband subsystems, including FPGAs, ASICs, and DSPs

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.

  • Vector signal generators
  • X-Series: MXG and EXG
  • PSG
  • ESG
  • First-generation MXG
  • M9381A PXIe VSG
  • Wireless test sets
  • PXB baseband generator and channel emulator
  • M8190A arbitrary waveform generator
  • M9420A PXIe vector transceiver
  • Waveform Creator software
  • SystemVue simulation software

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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