N7606C Signal Studio for Bluetooth

Simplify Bluetooth Signal Creation

Keysight Signal Studio software is a flexible suite of signal-creation tools that will reduce the time you spend on signal simulation. For Bluetooth, 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), 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

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. 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.

Signal Studio enables you to create and customize Bluetooth waveforms to characterize the power and modulation performance of your components. The simple user interface allows you to create standards-based Bluetooth packets and modulated data streams for Bluetooth BR (basic rate), EDR (enhanced data rate), LE (low energy) 4.0, 4.2 (longer packet length), Bluetooth 5 (higher data rate and longer range), and Bluetooth 5.1/5.2/5.3 (AoA/AoD), and Qualcomm Bluetooth High Speed Link.

Signal Studio’s advanced capability allows you to create fully-coded Bluetooth signals with a variety of different packet types and PDU settings. Choose continuous PN data patterns for BER analysis, or select user-defined data patterns or custom user files for the data packets. Frequency hopping can be configured in the baseband waveform for Bluetooth BR and EDR with selection kernel sequence or user-defined hopping sequence. Signal impairments such as dirty transmitter, carrier frequency offset, symbol timing error, frequency drift, relative power offsets, and AWGN can also be added.

To simplify BER test setup, an automated clock/gate/payload delay optimization routine is provided in the software for use with the E4438C ESG signal generator. Using the routine, the data, clock, and gate signal timing alignment at the input of the ESG’s internal BER analyzer (Option UN7) is easily determined and modified to ensure accurate test results.