Agilent Wireless Test and Measurement Solutions

Agilent Technologies is a leader in the RF and wireless test and measurement industry.

Nowadays, products are becoming very complex due to the support of complex modulation schemes such as 256QAM, OFDM, OFDMA, and the support of multiple standards (GSM, WCDMA, and LTE) in a mobile phone device. This requires testing of all the standards, including IRAT (Inter Radio Access Technology) testing, in mobile devices at various stages of development.

Agilent provides a one-box solution to meet this demand from the industry, right from conceptualization to the manufacturing of wireless devices. These products from Agilent provide mobile phone designers and phone manufacturers with increased measurement speed and improved accuracy of results for testing mobile devices.

A one-box test and measurement solution from Agilent supports various wireless standards which include GSM, GPRS, EGPRS, WCDMA, HSPA, CDMA2000, EVDO, IS-95, AMPS, Bluetooth, Zigbee, WLAN (11a/11b/11g/11n), WiMAX (Fixed-16d, Mobile-16e), LTE, and LTE-Advanced. As mentioned, Agilent’s solutions cover both IEEE, 3GPP, and other evolving wireless standards. Agilent products can test both PHY and MAC layers of devices. There are products by which even upper-layer functionality can also be verified.

Typical measurements supported by Agilent’s test and measurement products cover power spectrum mask, transmit power versus time curve, CCDF, EVM, channel response, spectral flatness, frequency error, timing error, DC offset, PAPR, and more. This helps designers identify any problems at the design/development stage itself.

Agilent Wireless Test Sets for Test and Measurement

The models E6640A EXM, E6621A PXT, and E6607A EXT are referred to as wireless communications test sets. They are designed for manufacturing testing and are used for testing multiple devices in parallel.

Another product from Agilent, model N9912A FieldFox, is used as an antenna analyzer, scalar network analyzer and includes power meter, signal generation, and signal analysis functionalities too.

Handheld Model N934X is a spectrum analyzer ideal for RF/wireless engineers for frequency domain spectrum analysis.

Another model N9330B is a handy cable and antenna tester.

8960 Series 10 Wireless Communication Test Set

Model no. E5515C series is a wireless communication test set used for wireless device manufacturing tests and for RF design and verification tests. This instrument is ideal for GSM, WCDMA, GPRS, and LTE device testing.

Very Portable Equipment

N4010A is a wireless test set, which can be configured for Bluetooth, Zigbee, WLAN-11a, 11b, 11g, and 11n device testing at various stages of the development cycle.

Agilent PXI Signal Generator

The PXI solution from Agilent includes a signal generator which can be used for receiver testing of wireless devices.

Agilent is continuously working on providing test and measurement solutions to address emerging wireless technologies/standards such as Dual carrier and MIMO versions of HSDPA, LTE Advanced, and WiGig-WLAN 11ad. This is required for test and measurement to address conformance requirements viz. RCT, PCT, and RRM to be met by device manufacturers.