White Papers
June 26, 2018
You're expected to deliver excellent results while staying within stringent budget constraints. Did you know that your test assets are critical to your success? Our new complimentary eBook offers eight ways to shift your perspective, enhance your processes, and transform test asset insights into an increased return on investment.
June 26, 2018
Traditionally RF power amplifiers used GaAs technology which has a well behaved and understood performance. Over the past few years GaN technology is replacing GaAs because GaN is more efficient and has a higher power density resulting in higher power MMICs and FETs.
June 26, 2018
Development of any wireless system is a demanding task, bounded by tight constraints and complicated by innumerable tradeoffs. This application note offers solutions that will help you overcome fundamental challenges in transmitter testing, including standard-compliance, power measurements, interference, EMC, and power consumption.
June 14, 2018
The new 802.11ax standard (High Efficiency or HE specification) aims to provide better spectral efficiency, capacity, and coverage in dense deployment scenarios as well as outdoor environments, with a goal to improve the average throughput per station by at least 4x compared to 802.11ac. Let’s look at five new features in 802.11ax that enable these improvements.
June 14, 2018
One of the most challenging things about working with millimeter-wave technology is getting accurate measurements. Uncertainty can be introduced at many points during testing, so selecting the right test equipment is an important decision.
June 14, 2018
While some of the challenges that lie ahead to meet the 5G requirements may seem daunting, simulation can already be used to develop understanding and explore innovative solutions. Altair FEKO offers comprehensive solutions for device and base station antenna design, while WinProp will determine the requirements for successful network deployment.
June 14, 2018
This paper introduces the fundamental theory behind beamforming antennas. In addition, calculation methods for radiation patterns with simulations results, as well as some real world measurement results for small linear arrays are shown. Due to the likely bandwidths in such applications, a non-standard way of graphical representation is proposed.
June 14, 2018
The software interface is an often overlooked, yet critical item in putting together a test system. It’s not enough for a piece of equipment to work well in isolation. In a production environment it must interact with and take commands from other modules, and in a laboratory setting it must work seamlessly with multiple hosts. Understanding some of the potential interface barriers and how to remove them is an important first step before evaluating any piece of test equipment.
June 14, 2018
Concrete and confined use cases such as mobile voice in 2G and mobile data in 4G dominated the definition of past cellular technologies. In contrast, 5G introduces a paradigm change towards a user/application centric technology framework that aims to support the following triangle of important use case families. The enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) use case represents the well-known continuation of the ever-increasing requirement to support both higher peak data rates per user and more system capacity. Learn more about this hot topic in our Whitepaper.
June 14, 2018
Beamforming networks for antennas have evolved since the 1960’s. Early designs were typically fixed-beam architectures, although newer configurations include complex adaptive beamforming networks. This brief presentation reviews the origins of the technology, and offers several example circuit topologies of passive microwave beamformers.