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Powerful test plan creation and execution

• Graphical editor for creating test plans
• Two versions of the editor exist for support on Windows and Linux platforms
• Fast execution and test flow visualization, analysis and insights
• Scalable modular “plug-in” software architecture. Take advantage of provided plug-ins in the Package Repo, or create your own using the SDK
• Run Explorer, Results Viewer and Timing Analyzer for test data visualization and analysis
• Built on the OpenTAP, an open-source test sequencer
  
• Ideal for R&D and Design Validation Labs

Plugin development and debug environment

• Python and .NET SDK that integrate with Visual Studio and other IDEs
• Package management and deployment system

PathWave Test Automation provides powerful, flexible and extensible test sequencing and test plan creation with additional capabilities that optimize your test software development and overall performance. Built on the PathWave software platform, PathWave Test Automation enables you to quickly create your test solutions, maximize your team’s productivity, and accelerate your products’ time-to-market.

The Keysight KS83ST0A automation platform for automotive radar – transmission and emission tests works with the KS83200A basic package to offer standards-compliant routines for testing and validation of radar transceivers. Its automated routines simplify programming, customization, and testing.

This software works with the AR8700T Automotive Radar Transmitter and Conformance Test Solution and will follow ETS standards EN 301 091,EN 302 264 and EN 302 858. Required software options include 89601200C and 89601BHPC, N7608APPC, KS8400A, and KS83200A.

Our new software application provides the immediate access your team needs to accelerate your radar module testing workflow. The Keysight KS83200A Automation platform for automotive radar is a suite of standards-compliant routines for testing and validation of radar transmitters and receivers. Its automated routines simplify programming, customization and testing, and timely updates keep it current with the latest standards.

The platform also includes calibration routines that account for the instruments and fixtures in each specific test setup. Minimizing loss and increasing accuracy is especially important when working with mmWave instruments and signals: even the slightest variation can cause erroneous go/no-go results.

Features and Functions

• Get immediate access to specific automotive radar test cases and libraries of test routines including major standards
• Test configuration and sequencing with intuitive user interface
  
• Obtain links to all necessary high-frequency instrumentation including calibration information
• Get documented report of test configuration, measurements made, pass/fail status, margin analysis, and waveforms

Functional and Conformance Test

• Test operating frequency range, mean, and peak power
• Test cases for unwanted and spurious emissions available (order hardware through AR8700T Automotive Radar Transmitter and Conformance Test Solution)

The Keysight KS83200A Automation platform for automotive radar testing provides immediate access to accelerate your radar module testing workflow. It is a suite of standards-compliant routines for testing and validation of radar transmitters and receivers. Its automated routines simplify programming, customization and testing, and timely updates keep it current with the latest standards.

The platform also includes calibration routines that account for the instruments and fixtures in each specific test setup. Minimizing loss and increasing accuracy is especially important when working with mmWave instruments and signals, as even the slightest variation can cause erroneous go/no-go results.

Features and Functions

• Get immediate access to specific automotive radar test cases and libraries of test routines including major standards
• Test configuration and sequencing with intuitive user interface
  
• Obtain links to all necessary high-frequency instrumentation including calibration information
• Get documented report of test configuration, measurements made, pass/fail status, margin analysis, and waveforms

The Keysight KS83RX0A automation platform for automotive radar – receiver and interference tests works with the KS83200A basic package to offer standards-compliant routines for testing and validation of radar receivers. Its automated routines simplify programming, customization, and testing.

This software works with the AR8700R Automotive Radar Receiver Test Solution and AR8700I Automotive Radar Immunity Interference Test Solution. Required software options include 89601B-200, 89601B-BHP, N7608APPC, and KS83200A.

Features and Functions

• Get immediate access to test cases to libraries of test routines for specific automotive radar test cases including major standards
• Test configuration and sequencing with intuitive user interface
• Obtain links to all necessary high-frequency instrumentation including calibration information
• Get documented report of test configuration, measurements made, pass/fail status, margin analysis, and waveforms  

Functional and Conformance Test

• FMCW custom chirp signal creation
• MFSK signal creation

PathWave Test Executive for Manufacturing (PTEM) is a plug-in that enhances the user experience in developing automated test programs using PathWave Test Automation Platform (TAP). With powerful PathWave Test Executive software, we eliminate the need to maintain or develop a test platform by users, especially in a manufacturing environment where a high mix of products exist, the maintenance, enhancement, and control of it could become challenging. Development of a test execution platform should not be a priority for valuable resources, instead optimizing and improving test coverage should be the key area of focus.

Prioritize the benefits

• Minimize programming and coding effort, promote code reuse with a common platform
• Create high-level steps, share them and gain the benefits of test standardization for repeatable use cases
• New and improved graphical switch manager, visualizes instrument and switch connections
• Easy learning curve, inexperienced users can quickly get involved with the features and tools available
• Inclusive at no extra cost, a set of library functions for multiple Keysight instruments 

• Developer version: KS8328A (Requires KS8400A PathWave Test Automation)
• Deployment version: KS8329A
• Software licenses are available as node-locked, transportable, or floating
• Licenses are available for purchase with 6-, 12-, 24- or 36-month support

• Support the live connection and downloading to the licensed signal generator, VXG, VXT or AWG
• Save to 89600 setup file or X-series measurement application setup file for modulation analysis
• Support programming API
• Enables offline playback of custom modulation waveforms using Keysight signal generators
• N7608C software installed on PC can create and export the custom modulation waveforms
• Apply channel calibration with equalization file exporting from 89600 VSA
• KeysightCare software support subscription included
  

The W4813B System Design, Automotive includes:

• Complete system simulation environment for RF, comms/DSP, and phased array
• Extensive library of automotive radar signal sources, channels, and targets
• Ray tracing scenario modeling tool for complex, dynamic target environment setup and analysis

System Design (SystemVue) is Keysight's premier RF and baseband system modeling platform. The W4813B System Design, Automotive bundle gives you all the tools you need to design RF and baseband systems for automotive radar applications, from advanced radar models to physics-based scenario modeling. It includes the RF, Comms/DSP, and Phased Array simulators, as well as the Automotive Library, and the Ray Tracing Design Kit. Get started today with the most comprehensive RF model-based engineering flow for automotive applications.

The W4525E Automotive Library includes:

• Comprehensive models for automotive radar development and verification
• Get started quickly with practical example workspaces such as linear FMCW
• Hardware connectivity to Keysight test equipment to compare simulation and measured data

The Automotive Radar Library has comprehensive tools for radar waveform generation, signal modulation, antenna modeling, channel simulation and signal processing. Users can simply connect different models to establish the unique automotive radar simulation scenarios. Reference designs, such as multi-targets range and speed measurement and 3D scanning radar using antenna array, offer users much easier starting points to implement their own design ideas into early simulations and prototyping.

Multi-scatter target parameterized simulation models are available in the Automotive Library to coordinate file import to realize and visualize the micro-Doppler effects on the target. This library can import antenna pattern files for ground clutter simulation as well. To accelerate the product development cycle from simulation to pilot and prototyping, the connectivity to test and measurement instruments of the System Design platform enables upload and download the data files from the schematic workspace.