Integrating Keysight SystemVue with Baseband and RF hardware measurements

Connecting measurement equipment to Keysight SystemVue offers several advantages to both System Verifiers doing test, and System Architects doing algorithmic modeling and validation. This page highlights some of these advantages, and offers resources to assist in the use of these features in SystemVue.

Problem Statement SystemVue Promotion
Traditionally, RF and DSP designers have worked separately to produce architectures within their respective tool domains. However, today’s emerging communications and aerospace/defense systems require cross-domain trade-offs and debugging to achieve extreme linearity, bandwidth and robustness to interference.

Integrating Design and Test
SystemVue enables “model-based design” for challenging physical layer communications systems design, and allows a common approach to both the RF and Baseband domains. Keysight’s SystemVue integrates modeling, simulation, reference IP, hardware generation, and measurement links into a single, versatile development platform across RF and Baseband domains that transitions easily from algorithms into hardware verification.

This process produces increased, early confidence that communications and aerospace/defense designs will not only work in the real world, but also achieve superior results, given available processing power, analog performance and environmental conditions. Whereas the “connected solutions” approach is centered on RF circuit designers using the Advanced Design System, this approach expands the concept to embrace Baseband and System-level architects as well.

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Sampling of Problems Addressed by Integrating Design and Test

Design problems addressed Measurement problems addressed
  • Unified approach to Baseband/DSP and RF
  • Faster, more accurate RF/analog modeling for non-RF people
  • Complete virtual communications systems by simulating missing components and baseband coding
  • Create precisely degraded test vectors in R&D, using simulation-based fading and environmental effects 
  • Continuously verify whole systems, even if some pieces are partially-implemented, or a mixed hierarchy
  • Early, pre-commercial Standards support for physical layer test instruments
  • Easy platform for verification scripting and structured test plan execution
  • Consistency of approaches and measurements, from algorithms to signal processing hardware
  • Use modeling to bridge gaps in test systems – such as MIMO hardware multiplicity and closed-loop tests

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