Event One of India’s biggest conclaves of Digital & Wireless Test Technologies for Electronics, Mobile and Telecommunication Design & Manufacturing
NOIDA, August 18, 2015, Keysight Technologies Inc. today successfully delivered its annual event, ‘Keysight Measurement Insights (KMI) 2015’, one of India’s largest conclaves on digital & wireless test technologies. Held in Noida, the event delivered world class experiences in digital and wireless test, demonstrating the latest revolutionary technologies and the industries’ leading test and measurement products. The event had over 150 industry leaders and application experts discussing the emerging industry trends and test needs to help transform India’s design and manufacturing environments.
Keysight launched a range of devices at the event, including the E7515A UXM wireless test set with LTE-A and W-CDMA/HSPA+ test solution enhancements, E6640A EXM Wireless Test Set, the M8020A J-BERT high-performance BERT, the M8195A 65 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator, the U5850 series TrueIR thermal imager and the Infiniium V-Series oscilloscopes. The new products enable designers and manufacturers in the digital & wireless domain to gain insight into new solutions and advanced ‘made in India’ product innovations. The participants at the event were representing the communications, semi-conductors, aerospace and defense, education, and engineering services industries. Attendees included designers, engineers, and manufacturing and engineering managers.
With India fast emerging as the new hub for electronics and mobile manufacturing, Keysight Measurement Insights 2015 provided a forum to experience the latest technologies, interact with real-world product demonstrations, attend technical presentations, and network with industry experts.
“It gives us great pleasure to organize the second edition of Keysight Measurement Insights. The event has become all the more important this year, in the backdrop of the government’s ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India’ initiative,” said Mr. Sudhir Tangri, country general manager, Keysight Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
“As the country strives to transform itself into a global manufacturing hub and spearhead a digital revolution, we believe Keysight can play a large role in this crucial juncture. Keysight Measurement Insights is providing a core platform for industry leaders to discuss and find solutions for challenging design and test issues.
“We are committed to assist in India’s burgeoning role for tomorrow’s electronics and mobile manufacturing. The products that we have introduced today are well positioned to cater to the needs of Indian customers. We are excited about the opportunities shaping up in the country and initiatives like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ will take our nation a long way in the days to come”, added Mr. Tangri.
Products Showcase
E7515A UXM Wireless Test Set, LTE-A and W-CDMA/HSPA+ Enhancements
The UXM is a highly-integrated signaling test set created for functional and RF design validation in the 4G era and beyond. It provides the integrated capabilities your customers need to test the newest designs, delivering LTE-Advanced data rates up to 600Mbps now and handling more complex requirements later. Used to validate new chipsets or user interfaces for cellular communications.
The UXM software release 1.4 includes significant enhancements to address leading edge LTE-A carrier aggregation (CA) test requirements in the 4G era as well as W-CDMA/HSPA+ enhancements.
Key features of software release 1.4 include:
- Support for downlink 4CC FDD and TDD (3CC and 4CC requires 2 UXMs in an array)
- W-CDMA/HSPA+ test capabilities, enabling 3G data throughput testing with integrated fading and CPC statistics, inter-RAT mobility and handover verification, and time-aligned multi-format logging
- 256 QAM in the downlink
- LTE-U with up to 3 unlicensed carriers
- Support for the new 3GPP category 0 for low power, low cost machine-to-machine (M2M) devices
- FDD-TDD mixed CA and uplink intra- and inter-band CA measurements
M8020A J-BERT High-Performance BERT Configuration for Bench-Top 5-Slot Chassis
The high-performance Keysight J-BERT M8020A enables fast, accurate receiver characterization of single- and multi-lane devices running up to 16 or 32 Gb/s.
With today’s highest level of integration, the M8020A streamlines your test setup. In addition, automated in situ calibration of signal conditions ensures accurate and repeatable measurements. And, through interactive link training, it can behave like your DUT’s link partner. All in all, the J-BERT M8020A will accelerate insight into your design.
Key Features & Specifications
- Data rates up to 8.5/ 16 Gb/s for pattern generator and error detector
- 1- 4 16 Gb/s BERT channels in a 5-slot AXIe chassis. Expandable to 32 Gb/s with M8061A multiplexer
- Integrated and calibrated jitter injection: RJ, PJ1, PJ2, SJ, BUJ, sinusoidal interference(common-mode and differential-mode), SSC (triangular and arbitrary, residual)
- 8- tap de-emphasis (positive and negative) up to 20 dB
- Integrated and adjustable ISI for loss emulation
- Interactive link training for PCI Express
- Built-in clock data recovery and equalization
- All modules and options are upgradeable
Target applications
R&D and test engineers who characterize, verify compliance of chips, devices, boards and systems with serial I/O ports up to 16 Gb/s and 32 Gb/s. The M8020A can be used to test popular serial bus standards, such as: PCI Express®, USB, MIPI M-PHYTM, SATA/SAS, DisplayPort, SD UHS-II, Fibre Channel, memory buses, backplanes, repeaters, active optical cables, Thunderbolt, 10 GbE, 100 GbE (optical and electrical), SFP+, CFP2/4 transceivers, CEI.
E6640A EXM Wireless Test Set
The Keysight TechnologiesEXM wireless test set provides ultimate scalability and port density to help device manufacturers keep pace with production capacity needs and preserve their investment in the future. The test set enables full parallel testing of multiple, multi-format devices simultaneously within a compact design. With the flexibility to start with one TRX and add up to three additional TRXs, or upgrade the TRXs’ frequency coverage or analysis bandwidth, you can cost-effectively meet today’s production requirements and enjoy up to 16 connections without any external switching. In addition to its flexible architecture, chipset support and test techniques and methodology play a key role in giving you the freedom to optimize manufacturing test performance and support new cellular and wireless communication technologies as needed.
Key Features & Specifications
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- Up to four TRX channels per EXM, with up to 6 GHz bandwidth on each TRX
- Two full-duplex and two half-duplex or four full-duplex ports per TRX
- Customizable to connect up to 32 DUTs with multi-port adapter (MPA) technology
- Independent source and analyzer on each TRX allows efficient use of test resources
Test multi-format devices
- Cellular: LTE/LTE-Advanced FDD, LTE/LTE-Advanced TDD, HSPA+, W-CDMA, 1xEV-DO, cdma2000®, GSM/EDGE-Evo, TD-SCDMA, DECT and PHS
- Connectivity: 802.11a/b/g/n/j/p/ac/af/ah, WLAN MIMO 2×2/3×3/4×4, Bluetooth®, WiMAX, multi-satellite GNSS, FM, Zigbee and digital video
Maximize throughput and yield*
- Accelerate test execution by capturing multiple format cellular and WLAN measurements via advanced sequencing and single-acquisition multiple measurements (SAMM)
- Receiver EVM for 160 MHz 802.11ac: ≤ –43 dB (typical)
- Absolute level accuracy, 380 MHz to 3.8 GHz: ≤ ±0.2 dB (typical)
- Output power range, 380 MHz to 6 GHz: +5 to –130 dBm (typical)
Get up and running in hours, not days, with validated turnkey chipset solutions
- Reduce test-development time and cost with chipset-specific calibration and verification routines
- Leverage local application engineers’ expertise to optimize the EXM for your needs
M8195A 65 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator
The M8195A is a new arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) with the highest combination of speed, bandwidth and channel density. It allows engineers to generate digital, multilevel (e.g. PAM4, MIPI C-PHY) signal scenarios and test their electrical and optical links with complex modulated signals up to 32 GBaud and beyond. This makes the M8195A the most versatile AWG in the industry.
- Sample rate up to 65 GSa/s
- 20 GHz analog bandwidth
- High channel density: 1, 2 or 4 channels per module
- Built-in frequency and phase response calibration
Key applications
- Coherent optical: A single M8195A module can generate 2 independent I/Q baseband signals (dual polarization = 4 channels) at up to 32 GBaud and beyond
- Multi-level, Multi-channel digital signals: Generate NRZ, PAM4, PAM8, DMT signals at up to 32 Gbaud. Embed/de-embed channels, add Jitter, ISI, noise and other distortions
- Physics, chemistry and electronics research: Generate any mathematically defined arbitrary waveform, ultra-short yet precise pulses and extremely wideband chirps
- Wideband RF and microwave: Generate extremely wideband RF signals with an instantaneous bandwidth of DC to 20 GHz for aerospace/defense/communication applications
Infiniium V-Series Oscilloscopes
Infiniium V-Series oscilloscopes provide superior measurement accuracy, enhanced analysis tools and advanced probing systems. With models that range from 8 GHz to 33 GHz, the V-Series enables circuit designers and engineers to make rapid progress from first silicon to eventual product release.
Key benefits:
- The industry’s best-in-class signal integrity for superior measurement accuracy
- The industry’s most advanced 30 GHz oscilloscope probing system
- The industry’s highest performance MSO channels at 20 GSa/s
- The industry’s longest 160-bit, 12.5 Gb/s hardware serial trigger (HWST)
- The industry’s broadest software and application solutions
U5850 series TrueIR thermal imagers
The U5856A and U5857A can perform temperature measurements up to 650 degrees C and 1200 degrees C respectively. This allows users to detect a wide temperature range for various applications such as petrochemical and steel processing, electrical and mechanical applications, building maintenance and even electronics applications.
With the shift towards predictive maintenance in industrial settings, the U5850 series allows technicians and engineers to efficiently and safely detect abnormalities without shutting down the system. Keysight’s U5850 series TrueIR thermal imagers is among the first in its range of thermal imagers that include four times in-camera fine resolution of 320 x 240 pixels from a 160 x 120 pixel detector. Together with the manual focus feature, allowing users to focus on an object as close as 10 cm, our solution provides clearer, sharper and reveals finer details to detect problems even faster.
The U5850 series offers image logging and temperature trending capabilities to monitor temperature changes overtime for accurate quality checks and diagnostic purposes. With a good 0.07 degree C thermal sensitivity, users can capture, save and analyze temperature changes accurately.
