Signal Studio for W-CDMA/ HSPA+ N7600C

Keysight Signal Studio software is a flexible suite of signal-creation tools that will reduce the time you spend on signal simulation. For W-CDMA, HSPA and HSPA+, 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 filters

- 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), or block-error-rate (BLER) 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 nonrepeating and dynamically changing signals needed for receiver testing. Its graphical interface provides a direct instrument connection for parameter transfer and closed-loop or interactive control during signal generation.

Receiver Test

Advanced N7600C Signal Studio functionality enables you to characterize receiver per­formance under a wide variety of test conditions. Create transport layer coded W-CDMA, HSPA and HSPA+ signals, to validate receiver characteristics and performance. Using advanced waveform playback mode enables you to generate long uplink and downlink waveforms, with over 1000 frames for continuous PN9 sequence generation, to validate both BTS and UE receiver characteristics and performance. The real-time mode enables you to define the parameters of non-repeating uplink signals for BTS receiver testing and provides a direct instrument connection to dynamically change signal parameters and respond to closed-loop feedback.