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TD-SCDMA PXI measurement suite

Aeroflex has introduced its PXI 3030 TD-SCDMA measurement suite to provide fast and cost-effective production testing of mobile handsets and RFICs based on ETSI 3GPP TS 34-122. The PXI 3000 series brings speed and modularity to the TD-SCDMA test market. It supports all major cellular standards, including 3GPP LTE, CDMA2000, 1xEVDO, GSM, W-CDMA, and mobile WiMAX. Customers can upgrade and add new standards to their test systems quickly through simple software upgrades as the need for hybrid phones featuring TD-SCDMA and alternative 2G or 3G standards starts to pick up. The measurement suite makes parametric measurements of TD-SCDMA transmitters and supports high-speed alignment and performance verification of devices operated in a non-signalling mode. Applications include high-speed/high-throughput mobile handset testing as well as RFIC characterisation. The PXI 3000 series platform lowers the cost of production testing of cell phones. The platform provides high yield and throughput, achieving improvements in test time using speed-optimising techniques such as multi-thread processing, pipelined capture, and fast-sequence tuning. Inclusion of test coverage of multiple wireless standards in one box provides customers the flexibility to change test capability without incurring large expenses or changes in their production test processes.