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Automation Platform for Automotive Radar

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Introduction

Keysight Automation Platform for Automotive Radar

It’s exciting to see what’s happening with automotive radar. What was once reserved for luxury vehicles has become a standard feature of mid-class cars. Today, as OEMs pursue the development of autonomous vehicles, radar technology is not standing still: higher frequencies, wider bandwidths, better resolution, and multiple targets. As a project manager, one key to success is helping your team stay current with the challenging technologies, evolving standards, and emerging test requirements related to automotive radar systems.

Setting up test systems and test scenarios for each new radar standard in each part of the world that you sell your radar modules can be time consuming and expensive. The test standards are dynamic and rewriting test software is impractical. In addition to that, there are new requirements coming online for interference testing. And, of course, there are the concerns of mmWave technologies where the adjustment of any part of the test can cause an error. Calibrating these high-end instruments can be time consuming and tricky. The Keysight KS83200A software can help with all these items.

The Keysight KS83200A automation platform for automotive radar has four crucial components:

  • Preconfigured routines for system calibration and module testing
  • Fast, efficient automation of complex test procedures
  • Timely updates that track evolving standards
  • A library of instrument drivers.

With proven automation applications, you can achieve maximum consistency in the setting, calibrating,

running and reporting of tests versus the latest version of each relevant standard.

Keysight Automation Platform for Automotive Radar application license variations

  • KS83200A Automation platform for automotive radar - enable basic features, test sequence with a loop/sweep
  • KS83RT0A Automation platform for automotive radar - Rx and Interference test
  • KS83ST0A Automation platform for automotive radar tests according to ETSI standards

Each of the above come with the following license types node-locked – to once computer or transportable (moveable between computers). Support and updates are included for the time you choose and can be renewed at 6-, 12-, 24- or 36-month intervals.

Features

Using the Keysight KS83200A automation platform for automotive radar greatly simplifies compliance

testing. The software automatically connects to and configures all the required test equipment, reducing the overall test time.

The Keysight KS83200A automation platform for automotive radar software offers several features to simplify the validation of automotive radar designs:

  • User interface for test configuration and sequencing
  • Libraries of test cases for specific automotive radars
  • Immediate access to test cases for the major standards including ETSI. Other standards will be added such as TELEC, FCC, ARIB, KCC, and more
  • Functional blocks for testing of transmitters (e.g., signal analysis) & receivers (e.g., signal generation)
  • Automatic connection and configuration to all necessary instrumentation, including calibration information
  • Provides detailed information of each test that has been run
  • Automated reporting in a comprehensive pass/fail HTML format with margin analysis

KS83200A software saves you time

The KS83200A automation test software saves you time by setting the stage for automatic execution of standard signal analysis and signal generation radar tests. Undoubtedly some of the difficulties of performing tests for transmission compliance of automotive radar are properly connecting to the highfrequency instrumentation that is required for mmWave standards. Connecting, configuration, loading the proper calibration files, and then analyzing the measured results by comparing them to limits published in the specifications. The KS83200A automation platform does much of this work for you. The KS83200A software automatically configures the instruments for each test and provides an informative results report that includes margin analysis indicating how close your product is to passing or failing each specification.

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