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In the manufacturing environment, you feel intense time-to-market pressures, especially for new technologies such as WiMAX. You need to get your products to market ahead of others while protecting your profit margin.
Manufacturing WiMAX products presents several challenges – high complexity boards with many small components and hidden joints, high-speed interconnects and often, thermally enhanced components.
You need the highest test coverage and highest test confidence to ensure a defect free manufacturing process. At the same time, you need the shortest test time.
Keysight Technologies, Inc. has the industry’s most complete portfolio of solutions for WiMAX manufacturing test. For each stage of the manufacturing process, from paste printing to functional test, Keysight is leading industry’s solutions to prevent and detect manufacturing defects.
Keysight’s manufacturing test solutions reduce WiMAX manufacturing challenges by providing you predictability, prevention and containment of defects, resulting in high confidence and fast time to market.
As a world leader in test and measurement solutions, Keysight Technologies continues to be at the forefront of this emerging market, offering WiMAX design and test solutions that span the entire technology lifecycle – R&D, design verification and pre-conformance, conformance, manufacturing and installation and maintenance.
A member of the WiMAX Forum since September 2004, Keysight is an active participant in the development of WiMAX Radio Conformance Test (RCT) documents and procedures. We were the first to provide standard compliant 802.16 physical layer (PHY) design and test tools for fixed and Mobile WiMAXTM applications including WiBro, allowing you to efficiently simulate, troubleshoot and verify your designs. Keysight has extended its expertise into manufacturing to help you get your designs to market faster and more efficiently.
With Keysight’s manufacturing test solutions and services, you can stay on top of the evolving standard while meeting your quality and time-to market goals.
Keysight WiMAX PCB Test and Inspection Solutions
Quality assurance starts at the board level. Keysight offers a complete suite of PCB Test and Inspection solutions to cover a broad range of defect prevention and detection for high-density, high-speed WiMAX boards. Our cutting edge technology comes with ease of use and speed to offer you uncompromised defect coverage.
Prevention is better than cure, and Keysight’s Automated Optical Inspection (KOI) solution identifies root cause faster than any other equipment in the marketplace. On a production line, this means potential savings in terms of fine-tuning processes early enough to prevent the need for costly repairs further downstream. Keysight’s KOI solutions can detect defects at the paste and component placement stages to fine-tune processes before the partially loaded boards go through the reflow stage, where errors will be more costly to fix after that.
Keysight’s KOI solution also provides one of the industry’s fastest inspection for post-reflow and post-wave defect detection. Platforms such as the Medalist SJ50 Series 3 (Post Component Placement Inspection — KOI) and SP50 Series 3 (Solder Paste Inspection — SPI) coupled with Keysight Process Control Software are strategically placed to provide the industry’s best defect coverage, using the highest resolution, highest throughput and most flexible optical inspection.
WiMAX boards rank among some of the most complex PCBAs in the world, with a high degree of overlapping and hidden joints. Keysight’s Medalist Automatic X-Ray Inspection (KXI) solutions are well poised to help manufacturers detect up to 95% of all manufacturing defects — the highest defect coverage presently available in the industry.
Our Medalist 5DX and x6000 KXI solutions automatically generate and analyze cross-sectional images of solder joints, providing actionable repair information to drive shorter repair times for manufacturers. Fixtureless programming ensures fast rampup.
The Medalist 5DX comes with ultra-fine defect detection capabilities and is the industry leading installed base for maximum global footprint, while with its exceptional throughput and ease-of-use, the Medalist x6000 can be integrated for in-line use model. The Keysight Medalist i3070 system is the industry’s highest accuracy, repeatability and most comprehensive electrical test system. Keysight has determined that too many pins cause unnecessary strain on the large boards due to the cantilever effect.
Keysight’s limited access tools using boundary scan, silicon nails and Keysight’s award-winning Medalist iVTEP test techniques are crucial to testing and measuring both key analog and digitally complex circuitry. Latest innovations such as the Medalist VTEP v2.0 suite of vectorless test technologies now enable WiMAX manufacturers to detect opens on power and ground pins on connectors — something that many industry players had conceded as beyond existing test capabilities.
Another award-winning breakthrough, the Keysight Medalist Bead Probe Technology, addresses the pressing need for more test accessibility on complex WiMAX boards at in-circuit test, especially for dense or high-speed PCB designs. This proven methodology involves the placement of solder beads, or “bead probes,” directly onto printed circuit board (PCB) signal traces to provide superior test access on highly complex boards.
Keysight WiMAX Functional Test Solutions
The growing demand for WiMAX urges manufacturers of WiMAX products to plan for high volume and thin margins and therefore be cost effective. At the same time, the emerging technology also presents more technical challenges for functional test because a new format requires new test instruments that can do the job.
An assembled WiMAX product needs to be tested under conditions as close to real environments to ensure quality and interoperability. Functional test of WiMAX products requires format specific test capabilities, with the accuracy and speed to ensure test confidence in the shortest time.
Keysight WiMAX Functional Test Solutions address both, the calibration & alignment, as well as full functional test stages in manufacturing.
Built around Keysight’s high performance test instruments, our WiMAX functional test solutions provide accurate and fast testing in manufacturing as well as strong correlation with tests in R&D and design verification.
Keysight WiMAX functional test solutions include:
- E6651A Mobile WiMAX Test Set
- MXZ-1000 WiMAX Manufacturing Test System
The Keysight MXZ-1000 is a fully integrated WiMAX calibration and tuning test solution offering exceptional test speed, superior measurement performance and capability, a user-friendly GUI environment, and world-wide global delivery and support.
Keysight MXZ-1000 is the industry leading WiMAX manufacturing test system offering a library of proprietary chipset communication and calibration profiles for WiMAX manufacturers seeking a WiMAX calibration solution optimized for high-volume environments.