New LTE-Advanced 8×8 MIMO signal-generation and analysis solutions have been unveiled by Agilent Technologies Inc.
LTE-Advanced is the evolution of LTE to 4G. Standardisation work has been undertaken by the company as part of Release 10 of the 3GPP specification, with further enhancements in Release 11 and beyond. LTE-Advanced is said to introduce a number of enhancements and new technologies to enable peak data rates of up to 1Gbps in the downlink and 500Mbps in the uplink.
To achieve such a high peak data rate, the company’s LTE-Advanced supports a maximum bandwidth of 100MHz by aggregating up to five component carriers, each up to 20MHz wide, and improved multi-antenna techniques in both uplink and downlink. For downlink, it introduces transmission mode 9, which enables Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) with up to 8 spatial streams and antennas.
The company’s new signal-generation and analysis solutions comprise Signal Studio and 89600 VSA software, as well as the its X-Series vector signal generators and multi-channel signal analyser with up to eight measurement channels.
The solutions support generation and analysis of FDD and TDD signals compliant with the 3GPP Release 10 standard, and are well suited for R&D and test engineers designing and evaluating transmitters, receivers, basebands, and components for LTE-Advanced base stations and mobile terminals.
The multi-channel signal analyser is said to enable full analysis of LTE-Advanced standards on next-generation antennas, base stations and user equipment. Working with the 89600 VSA, enables phase-synchronous and cross-channel measurements with up to eight RF channels in a single mainframe.
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