E6568F UMTS/LTE/LTE-A Wireless Test Manager

Powerful, easy-to-use test automation software that helps you accelerate the design and manufacturing and quickly achieve volume production of multi-format W-CDMA/GSM/GPRS/EGPRS and LTE FDD/TDD wireless devices

Tests Supported

LTE/LTE-A transmitter tests

• Minimum output power
• Maximum output power
• Aggregate power control tolerance
• EVM equalizer spectrum flatness
• Occupied bandwidth
• Additional maximum power reduction
• Configured UE transmitted output power
• Spectrum emission mask
• Additional spectrum emission mask
• PRACH time mask
• SRS time mask
• Power control absolute power tolerance
• PUSCH-EVM with exclusion period
• In-band emissions for non-allocated RB
• Maximum power reduction
• Frequency error
• Error vector magnitude
• Carrier leakage
• Adjacent channel leakage power ratio
• General ON/OFF time mask

LTE/LTE-A receiver tests

• Reference sensitivity level
• Maximum input level
• Adjacent channel selectivity (ACS)
• In-band blocking
• Reference sensitivity level for CA
• Maximum input level for CA
• LTE tiered Rx sensitivity search
• LTE tiered Rx sensitivity search at UE

W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA call processing

• Base station (BS) originate/release call
• Mobile registration
• Mobile originate (AMR mode)
• Change channel
• W-CDMA to GSM handoff
• Short message service (SMS)

W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA transmitter tests

• Adjacent channel leakage power ratio (ACLR)
• Inner loop power control
• Maximum output power
• Minimum output power
• Occupied bandwidth (OBW)
• Open loop power control
• Phase discontinuity
• Spectrum emission mask (SEM)
• Transmit on/off power
• Waveform quality
• HSDPCCH test
• Base station emulation control

W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA receiver tests

• Maximum input level (BER)
• Reference sensitivity level (BER)
• BLER

GSM/GRPS/EGPRS call processing

• GSM MS and BS origination
• GSM MS and BS release
• GPRS mobile-initiated attach and detach
• GPRS and EGPRS packet data transfers on uplink and downlink
• Channel, band, and format changes with continuous attach/ camp
• Short message service (SMS)

GSM/GRPS/EGPRS transmitter tests

• GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Tx power
• EGPRS modulation accuracy
• GSM/GPRS/EGPRS phase and frequency error
• Power versus level
• GSM/GRPS/EGPRS burst timing error
• GSM/GPRS/EGPRS output RF spectrum
• GSM/GPRS/EGPRS power versus time

GSM/GRPS/EGPRS receiver tests

• GSM fast BER
• GSM BER
• GSM/GPRS BER
• GPRS/EGPRS BLER
• EGPRS SRB bit error
• Rx level and quality report

General tests

• Current drain
• GSM voice quality
• Data analyzer
• Keysight 14565B device characterization software control
• GPIB command send/receive
• DUT command send/receive
• LAN command send/receive

Hardware Supported

Test instruments

• E7515A UXM wireless communications test set
• E7530A LTE test application or E7630A LTE lab application
• E5515E mainframe (or equivalent E5515C/B/T with Options 002 and 003)
• E1987A fast switching mobile test application (revision
• A.14.14 or later)
• E1963A W-CDMA mobile test application (revision A.19.14 or later)
• E6703H W-CDMA lab application (revision H.01.14 or later)
• E6785H fast switching lab application (revision H.01.15 or later)
• E6703H W-CDMA lab application (revision H.01.14 or later)
• E6785H fast switching lab application (revision H.01.15 or later)
• E1968A GSM/GPRS/EGPRS mobile test application (revision A.07.21 or later)
• Keysight 66311B, 66319B, and 66321B power supplies
• Keysight 34970 with 34901A, 34903A, and 34907A data acquisition/switch unit

Fixtures

• Tescom TC-5941, TC-5942, and TC-5952B

Adapters

• Keysight 82357A USB/GPIB interface
• National Instruments GPIB-USB to GPIB

PC Cards

• Keysight GPIB
• National Instruments GPIB
• Advantech PCI 1750 digital I/O
• Control RocketPort 95870-3 and 99096-3 multi-port serial

Peripherals

• Symbol LS-1220-1200A fixed bar code reader
• Symbol LS-3603MX-1200A, P300FZY, and LS4004I-I100 handheld bar code reader
• HP printers
• Epson TM-U200D and TM-U220D strip printer

PC requirements

• Operating system: Microsoft
• Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise
• Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (for development)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later
• 600 MHz Pentium III or higher
• 512 MB RAM minimum (1024 MB is recommended for normal development)
• 200 MB free hard drive space
• CD-ROM
• GPIB card or converter with VISA drivers (one per test system)
• Serial ports for fixtures, device control, and bar code reader

Order Information

• E6568F UMTS/LTE/LTE-A Wireless Test Manager
• E6568F-1TP development and run-time license
• E6568FU upgrade existing E6568x to E6568F
• E6568FU-1TP development and run-time license
• E6569F Wireless Test Manager suite, including E6567F and E6568F
• E6569F-1TP development and run-time license