Keysight Technologies Keysight PXI Reference Solution

The Keysight Reference Solution enables engineers to quickly evaluate and integrate core radio test measurement capabilities into validation, production or depot test systems. The company claims this solution is the industry’s first PXI open radio test reference solution and a radio test audio library for military and public safety radios.

Designers and manufacturers of radio equipment face the challenge of combining new technologies — multiple channels and wider bandwidths — with legacy standards that need to be supported over long periods of time. The radio test reference solution therefore provides flexibility, modularity and upgradeable test system architectures to allow more features and increased performance to be added without changing the entire test system.

In addition to traditional analog and digital radio standards, the reference solution supports standards-based signal creation and analysis for modern communications standards. This includes LTE for next-generation public safety radios, which provides wider data bandwidth. It also generates and analyses custom waveforms, and supports capabilities such as spurious emission measurements up to 27 GHz.

Hardware options range from the M9290A CXA-m signal analyser to the M9393A performance vector signal analyser. Software options include Keysight’s X-Series measurement applications, supporting a common set of standard measurements for AM, FM and digital radio, such as APCO P25 and TETRA signals. The M9560A radio test audio library also accelerates audio signal generation and analysis.