Benchtop tester

Agilent has announced 7.2/2 Mbps HSPA IP data connection and HSUPA RF measurement capabilities for its wireless communications test set running the special high data rate W-CDMA/HSDPA lab application.

This one-box benchtop tester supports parametric to functional test of wireless UMTS user equipment.

The HSPA capabilities build on the 8960 lab application's system of providing the broadest benchtop solution for meeting a wide variety of user equipment design needs, including functional test and RF measurements for device validation, integration and regression testing.

It is claimed to be the first one-box tester to combine a 7.2 Mbps HSDPA/2 Mbps HSUPA IP data connection with real-time 3GPP network emulation and HSPA/W-CDMA/GGE RF measurements.

As a result, it enables mobile designers to evaluate, on the bench, a device's ability to process HSPA IP data flowing at rates of 7.2 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up.

It is also believed to be the only one-box tester to provide all the HSUPA functions - RB test mode, PS data and power, ACLR, spectrum emissions mask and code domain measurements - with real-time connection status reporting and HSPA IP data.

HSPA IP data connection capability helps to ensure UE design will meet the most stringent network conditions by testing the impact of data rates on UE hardware components and analysing RF parametric performance of the UE transmitter and receiver. It allows mobile designers to further stress their design by testing data throughput while emulating a real HSPA network with additive white Gaussian noise, fading and inter-RAT voice and data handover.