N7617C Signal Studio for WLAN 802.11a/b/g/j/p/n/ac/ah/ax/be

Simplify Custom 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. Signal Studio’s performance-optimized WLAN 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 packet-error-rate (PER) 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

Performance test

N7617C Signal Studio for WLAN 802.11 and N7607C Signal Studio for DFS Radar Profiles can be integrated to set up a test system for WLAN performance tests including DFS test.

Apply Your Signals in Real-World Testing

Once you have set up 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.

Component and Transmitter Test

Once you set up your signals in PathWave Signal Generation Desktop, you can download them to a variety of Keysight instruments.

Signal Studio’s basic capabilities enable you to create and customize a variety of WLAN 802.11 waveforms including 802.11a/b/g/j/p/n/ac/ah/ax/be to characterize the power and modulation performance of your transmitter or receiver components, such as amplifiers and IQ modulators. Easy manipulation of a variety of signal parameters, including standard format, transmission bandwidth, guard interval, data rate, and modulation type, simplifies signal creation.

• Create spectrally-correct signals for channel power, ACP, spectral mask, and spurious testing

• Set parameters such as channel bandwidth and modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for modulation verification and analysis, such as EVM tests

• Configure up to three 802.11a/b/g/j/p carriers with individual channel parameters such as data rate, modulation type, payload data, PN data seed value, and frequency offset

• 802.11ac provides a downclocking ratio parameter to allow creation of signals proposed by IEEE 802.11af

• 802.11be provides up to 4096 QAM and 320 MHz signal generation

• View CCDF, spectrum and time domain graphs to investigate the effects of modulation formats, power changes, filtering, and other effects on the test signal