Keysight has become the first test and measurement company to achieve SC21 (Supply Chains for the 21st Century) Silver Award status for both hardware and support services. The company was presented with the award by the ADS Group, a U.K. aerospace, defence, security and space trade organisation. The award presentation was held at the Finmecannica-Selex ES Edinburgh facility in Edinburgh.

The 5G topic is gathering momentum and Keysight Technologies has put its shoulder to the wheel by introducing the Keysight EEsof EDA 5G Baseband Exploration Library. Providing ready-to-use reference signal processing intellectual property (IP) for 5G technology research, this industry-first library dramatically increases the productivity for system architects and baseband physical layer (PHY) designers.

Keysight Technologies has introduced CAN FD (controller area network with flexible data rate) and SENT (single edge nibble transmission) decoding and triggering options for its InfiniiVision 4000 X-Series oscilloscopes. The new capabilities improve engineers’ efficiency in debugging CAN FD and SENT serial buses, which are used primarily in automotive applications.

The Keysight 90000 X-series oscilloscope is engineered for 33GHz true analogue bandwidth that delivers:

This video from Keysight Technologies shows how the Infiniium 9000 series oscilloscopes are engineered for the broadest measurement capability.

Keysight Technologies has introduced transmitter (TX) test support for the USB 3.1 specification with the U7243B USB 3.1 transmitter performance validation and compliance test software. The test software allows authorised test centres to certify SuperSpeed USB and SuperSpeed USB 10-Gbps devices and gives in-house test and performance validation engineers the tools to ensure their devices comply with the USB 3.1 specification.

Even as LTE and LTE Advanced (4th gen cellular systems) are being deployed, work is already starting on their successor: 5G. This whitepaper from Keysight Technologies describes the needs that demand continued development of mobile and fixed-line communications systems, and explains some background on who is involved and what is currently happening in bringing 5G from theory to reality.

Keysight Technologies has published its Method of Implmentation (MOI) document for USB 2.0 connector and cable assembly compliance testing using the ENA Series network analyser’s enhanced time domain analysis option (E5071C-TDR). Developed in the mid-1990s, the USB standard features a number of variants including SuperSpeed USB, also known as USB 3.0, which supports a 5 Gbps transfer rate and offers up to a 10 times performance increase ove...

Keysight Technologies has launched a high bandwidth, low noise oscilloscope probe for making power integrity measurements to characterise DC power rails. The N7020A power-rail probe specifications are tailored for a wide variety of DC power-rail measurements. Probe specifications include very low noise, a large ± 24-V offset range and 2-GHz bandwidth.

Keysight Technologies’ U2040 X-Series wide dynamic range power sensors made their debut at European Microwave Week. The series consists of four USB models for wireless and radar applications, and a dedicated LAN model for satellite testing. The 96 dB dynamic range, spanning -70 dBm to +26 dBm, enables accurate power measurements of very small signals, critical for applications such as wireless chipset and power amplifier module manufacturin...

The N5193A UXG agile signal generator from Keysight Technologies is an off-the-shelf instrument that enables highly realistic and scalable threat simulations for aerospace/defense applications. It is also a dependable slide-in replacement for the legacy fast-switching local oscillators (LOs) often used in large, dedicated simulation systems.

Keysight Technologies has introduced the DDR Bus Simulator; a tool that generates accurate Bit-Error-Rate (BER) contours for the JEDEC DDR memory bus specification. The software product, which is available as a new option for Advanced Design System (ADS) 2014.11 from Keysight EEsof EDA, quickly and accurately calculates DQ and DQS eye probability density distributions and BER contours for memory interfaces.

Keysight Technologies has introduced new signal processing firmware for its family of U53xxA PCIe digitisers. The new firmware (option -TSR) allows simultaneous capture and transfer of acquired data in triggered applications. According to Keysight’s validation measures, the digitiser’s architecture, with the new firmware, is able to sustain triggered acquisitions of thousands of samples at hundreds of kHz rates without missing any eve...

Keysight Technologies has enhanced the E7515A UXM wireless test set with new functionality including support for LTE-A category 7 data throughput, expanded functional test capabilities, and in-depth RF performance verification using the industry standard X-Series measurement applications.

Keysight Technologies is preparing an innovative and diverse range of electronic test solutions for visitors to electronica in Munich (Nov 11-14).These include a broad range of the most recent basic and general purpose instruments that span DC to RF, such as DMMs, frequency counters, audio analysers, signal generators and new mid-range oscilloscopes, the S-Series and InfiniiVision 6000-X.

A new PXI Reference Solution for RF power amplifier (PA) characterisation and test has been released by Keysight Technologies. The Reference Solution, which performs S-parameter, harmonic distortion, power and demodulation measurements, enables rapid, full characterisation of next-generation power amplifier modules, such as a power amplifier-duplexer (PAD).

A high-speed, wide-bandwidth M8195A arbitrary waveform generator that allows engineers to generate digital, multilevel (e.g. PAM4, MIPI C-PHY) signal scenarios and test their electrical and optical links with complex modulated signals up to 32 GBaud and beyond has been unveiled by Keysight Technologies.

A solution that provides satellite ground station maintenance in the aerospace/defense and commercial markets is how Keysight Technologies describes its FieldFox handheld combination analysers. The analysers offer the precision, frequency coverage (up to 26.5 GHz), and all-in-one capability (e.g., spectrum analyser, full 2-port vector network analyser and power meter) needed to perform a range of benchtop-quality measurements in difficult test en...

At ECOC 2014, 22nd to 24th September, in Cannes, France, Keysight Technologies will demonstrate test and measurement solutions to advance communications beyond 400Gbps in telecomms, data centre and computing. Products exhibited from Stand 368 will include the M8195A arbitrary waveform generator.

Keysight Technologies has introduced DDR4 ball-grid array (BGA) probe interposer solutions for its Infiniium Series oscilloscopes. Engineers can use the probes and oscilloscopes for debugging and characterising DDR4 memory designs and testing device compliance with the JEDEC DDR4 standard.