Agilent Technologies Inc. and Lime Microsystems announced a
custom pairing of test equipment, transceiver technology, and control software
that constitutes a new method for testing and evaluating advanced wireless
systems. The evaluation platform, which includes a suite of test equipment and
software, saves digital and software-defined radio designers development time
and cuts optimization cycles, helping to speed new products to market.
“Combining the transceiver platform from Lime Microsystems
with our suite of test equipment has given designers a comprehensive,
cost-effective method for design validation, even for multi-standard radios,”
said Robert Drollinger, marketing manager at Agilent. “We are delighted to
offer RF designers this combination of tools and equipment to help solve this
test and evaluation challenge.”
“The LMS6002D flexible transceiver [from Lime Microsystems]
is gaining traction in a wide variety of market sectors, including cellular
small cells, software defined radios, public safety and land mobile radios,”
said Dale Wilson, director of marketing at Lime Microsystems. “Our joint
efforts with Agilent have enabled our customers to evaluate our product quickly
and efficiently, resulting in highly effective customer support for a wide
community of users.”
The Lime Microsystems evaluation platform and associated
control software allows users to adjust the transceiver’s uplink and downlink
frequencies from 300 MHz to 3.8 GHz, with no gaps, and to set the on-chip channel
filters to accommodate all cellular standards. With Agilent test equipment and
the transceiver from Lime, customers can generate digital IQ signals using a
pattern generator, convert these signals to RF, and analyze the RF signals with
Agilent’s Vector Signal Analyzer software on an Agilent Spectrum Analyzer or
wideband oscilloscope.
This setup is supported by a comprehensive set of Agilent
software tools, coupled with the Lime user interface, for optimizing the RF
parameters on a given standard or frequency band, providing a simple and fast
method for configuring the Lime transceiver.
Agilent Technologies,
www.agilent.com