Keysight Technologies, Integrated Device Technologies Collaborate on Component Characterization of 5G mmWave Beamforming Inte...
October 15 2019 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Keysight’s 5G solutions enable beamformer
provider to accelerate performance validation of designs for 5G NR
base stations
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced an
extended collaboration with Integrated Device Technologies, Inc.
(IDT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation
(TSE: 6723), on component characterization of 5G new radio (NR)
mmWave integrated circuit (IC) beamformers to accelerate
development of 5G NR base stations.
Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) use beamforming
technology in 5G NR base stations to improve reliability and
efficiency in the mmWave frequency spectrum. Beamforming uses
multiple antennas (a phased array) to transmit the same signal,
thereby increasing the signal strength to and from a chosen
direction to extend cellular coverage, delivering higher data rates
and an improved radio environment.
“Our close collaboration with Keysight enables us to validate
that our 5G beamformers and other components deliver the high
performance and low-power consumption essential for 5G network
infrastructure equipment,” said Naveen Yanduru, vice president and
general manager of IDT’s RF product division.
As the bandwidth of integrated circuits using 5G technology
increases, it is important to characterize their performance over
wider frequency ranges. This is why IDT uses Keysight’s high
performance family of vector network analyzers (VNAs) to validate
the performance of its beamformer ICs. Keysight solutions enable
IDT, and other leading designers of ICs, to measure key parameters
such as scattering (S) parameters, 1dB compression point (P1dB),
third-order intermodulation products (IM3), and error vector
magnitude (EVM).
“Our extended collaboration with IDT demonstrates how Keysight’s
5G beamformer IC test solutions enable designers of beamformers to
validate performance using high precision measurement and
simulation tools, ensuring reliable and efficient designs,” said
Kailash Narayanan, vice president and general manager of Keysight's
wireless test group.
The two companies will use the Keysight Streamline USB VNA to
demonstrate IDT’s active beamforming radio frequency integrated
circuit (RFIC) for 5G NR at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium
on Phased Array Systems and Technology (Array2019) taking place
October 15 – 18, 2019 in Waltham, MA.
Earlier this year, at the world’s largest microwave and RF
industry trade show – the International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
2019 – IDT showcased a 64-element phased array antenna comprised of
its 5G NR beamformer ICs and wideband microwave synthesizer. The
demonstration leveraged Keysight’s Signal Studio software for
signal creation, the PXI vector signal generator for waveform
generation and the UXA Signal Analyzer for vector signal analysis,
enabling them to validate the signal fidelity performance of its
beamforming IC.
About Keysight in 5G
Keysight’s industry-first 5G end-to-end design and test
solutions enable the mobile industry to accelerate 5G product
design development from the physical layer to the application layer
and across the entire workflow from simulation, design, and
verification to manufacturing, deployment, and optimization.
Keysight offers common software and hardware platforms compliant to
the latest 3GPP standards, enabling the ecosystem to quickly and
accurately validate 5G chipsets, devices, base stations and
networks, as well as emulate subscriber behavior scenarios.
Additional information about Keysight's 5G solutions is available
at www.keysight.com/find/5G.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's
solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market
faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation,
to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in
networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide
communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive,
energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight
generated revenues of $3.9B in fiscal year 2018. More information
is available at www.keysight.com.
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