Agilent E6640A EXM wireless test set

Agilent Technologies has announced the E6640A EXM wireless test set, which offers manufacturing-test scalability in technology coverage, performance and capacity to test up to 32 cellular and wireless-connectivity devices in parallel. The EXM offers manufacturers the speed, accuracy and multiport density to ramp up rapidly and optimise full-volume manufacturing. To accelerate test development, the EXM is synchronised with the latest cellular and WLAN chipsets.

The EXM can be configured with up to four independent transmit/receive (TRX) channels, each of which is a complete vector signal generator and vector signal analyser. Each TRX includes four RF ports - two full-duplex and two half-duplex. To further extend scalability and port density, the EXM can be customised to connect up to 32 devices under test through multiport adapter (MPA) technology.

The EXM offers 160 MHz bandwidth, up to 6 GHz frequency range, and a broad choice of multiformat coverage, from LTE-Advanced in cellular to 802.11ac with multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) in wireless connectivity. Power level accuracy is ±0.5 dB at 3.8 GHz and the receiver EVM noise floor is -42 dBm for 802.11ac.