UMTS UL Measurement Suite

A complete suite of measurement functions for high speed precision alignment and analysis of transceiver RF performance in accordance with 3GPP TS 134 121 release 8 using 3030 Series RF digitizers.

• Tx output power Max and Min with drive to level
• Inner loop power control (ILPC)
• Frequency stability
• Out of band Spectral emissions (ACLR/SEM)
• Occupied bandwidth
• CCDF
• Phase discontinuity          
• EVM (Peak and RMS)
• Phase and amplitude errors
• IQ skew and gain imbalance
• Origin offset
• Tx slot timing error
• Code domain power / code domain error
• Demodulated symbol data for active channels
• Enhanced physical channels and HS-DPCCH
• Receive sensitivity (BER/BLER) using loopback
• Per-channel code domain error and relative code domain error measurements
• Release 8 support
• Release 8 spectrum mask support
• Ability to analyze 4-PAM E-DPDCH
• DPCCH slot format 4 support
• Fast Sequence Tuning (FST)

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The UMTS UL measurement suite provides easy to use interfaces for both manual operation within PXI Studio and application programming in C, VB and .NET.

The UMTS UL measurement suite was designed with efficiencies in mobile handset testing in mind. The measurement and analysis libraries enable the transfer of Aeroflex PXI 3000’s high speed, performance and flexibility benefits to the production floor. Aeroflex’s PXI based RF test systems are used in the development and manufacturing of mobile radio transmitters, sub-modules and RFICs (radio frequency integrated circuits).