Agilent Technologies Inc. (Soon to be Keysight Technologies) today announced that Smarter Micro has selected the Agilent PXIe modular vector signal test solution to accelerate the development of its latest reconfigurable multimode, multiband power amplifier.
Smarter Micro is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and develops radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits. They are also using Agilent’s test solutions in the design of its new S308 power amplifier, which significantly reduces the complexity of the fourth-generation mobile design. In past, it used Agilent’s PXIe modular vector signal evaluation system solution during the design verification of the S308 power amplifier. The system included the Agilent M9381A PXIe vector signal generator, M9391A PXIe vector signal analyzer, and automatic fast measurement software with frequency support up to 6 GHz and 160 MHz analysis bandwidth. To achieve multimode hybrid networking and seamless mobile roaming, mobile device manufacturers must meet the telecom operator’s multimode and multi-frequency specifications. In order to resolve this matter, Smarter Micro is using Agilent’s modular vector signal test solutions in the development of its multimode multiband RF frontend OMNI-Smart platform and the S308 reconfigurable multimode multiband power amplifier (MMPA). The S308 covers the full frequency bands from 698 MHz to 2690 MHz and is able to support UMTS, TD-SCDMA, FDD LTE and TD-LTE standards.
Agilent recently announced the M9393A PXIe performance vector signal analyzer (VSA), which offers speed (up to 27GHz) and accuracy previously unseen in modular instrumentation. In addition to design verification, the fast and accurate PXIe modular power amplifier test solution was suitable for high-volume production. Agilent’s new 89600 VSA software stepped spectrum capability enables the M9393A to measure across 27 GHz in less than one second and with 10 kHz resolution bandwidth. This allows for fast measurements of harmonics, spurs and intermodulation. The Agilent test solution reduced the verification test times by enabling power servos to converge faster with outstanding linearity, repeatability and absolute amplitude accuracy.
