Aeroflex Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX), announced today two new digital radio test options for the 3500A Hand-held Radio Test Set. Software version 3.8.0 includes new features that extend the test capabilities of the 3500A to the latest land mobile digital radio standards. The 3500A can now test Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) and NXDN™ digital narrowband mobile stations and repeaters. This testing incl...

Aeroflex Incorporated announced today that it has successfully demonstrated the decoding and encoding of the Project 25 TDMA H-DQPSK (Harmonized Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) radio signal using the 3900 Series Digital Radio Test Set.

Aeroflex Incorporated and RELM Wireless announced today the release of automated test and alignment capabilities for the DPHX5102X Series radios on the Aeroflex 3920 Digital Radio Test Set.

Aeroflex Incorporated announced today the availability of a new PC-based application for sending and receiving Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) radio data, using the 3920 as the generator and receiver. With this application, it is now possible for engineers and technicians to capture data from DMR radios and repeaters and also transmit user-defined data over the air to dynamically analyze DMR radio messages and isolate transmission and receiver problem...

Aeroflex announced today the launch of the 3065A RF combiner, the latest addition to the 3060 Series of PXI RF conditioning modules for communications system test applications. At the same time, updates are available to measurement suites for advanced digital communication standards that add new functionality and can double measurement speeds.

Aeroflex announced today that its TM500 Test Mobile has added support for the 3GPP DC-HSDPA Release 9 standard to the multiple UE (user equipment, or handset) emulation product. Release 9 is the most recent update to the HSPA+ standards, and provides a maximum data rate of 84 Mbps by enabling concurrent operation of MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) and DC-HSDPA (Dual Cell High-Speed Download Packet Access).

Aeroflex announced today that by deploying its PXI-based test systems, MobileAccess, a global provider of enterprise wireless solutions, significantly increased the speed of device testing while maintaining the same level of test coverage. Production test speeds increased five times (5X) over a competitor’s installed GPIB-based test system. The vast improvement helped MobileAccess meet the increased customer demand for their products by increa...

Aeroflex announced today that its EAST500 LTE Capacity Test System has won a Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) 2010 4GWE Product of the Year award. This is the second year in a row that an Aeroflex LTE product has been selected for this honour. Award recipients represent the most innovative new products brought to market during 2010.

Aeroflex has added new options to its ProLock 2201 Mobile Phone Test System to help service centers reduce cost with faster and more accurate testing. The WCDMA Speed and Handover upgrade (Option 2235) increases WCDMA test speed by 40 percent and adds the ability to test and perform intersystem handover to GSM. Option 2236 adds HSDPA test capability, increasing the reliability of RF tests. Both options can be added to existing instruments after i...

Aeroflex Limited (“Aeroflex” or the “Company”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX) announced today it has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the spectrum analyzer assets from LIGNex1 Co., Ltd (“LIGNex1”). The primary assets to be acquired under the transaction include bench-top spectrum analyzer product lines that Aeroflex has offered under its own brand. These products include the 2399C, 2394A,...

The Aeroflex S-Series RF signal generator family makes its worldwide debut at Electronica today. The S-Series offers simplicity, portability, modularity, and RF performance at an attractive price. Aeroflex’s reputation for innovation in signal generators has been re-affirmed in the S-Series. The range of instruments has been designed from the ground up to meet the expectations of today’s engineers for instant answers at the touch of a screen....

The Aeroflex CS9000 Broadband Signal System (BSS) will be shown for the first time at AUTOTESTCON in Orlando this week. The CS9000 BSS is the premier test system for signal generation and recording for simulation and analysis of advanced communications signals in extreme environments. An integrated, modular system comprised of the operational elements of Aeroflex's Broadband Signal Analyzer and Generator (BSAG), the CS9000 BSS provides the widest...

Aeroflex announced the launch of a new option for the 7100 LTE Digital Radio Test Set that supports CDMA-based data standards such as Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) and evolved High Rate Packet Data (eHRPD) as well as LTE-eHRPD hand-over.

Aeroflex announced today that the PXI 3030 cdma2000/1xEV-DO Measurement Suite now supports Revision B (Rev B) of the standard, at no additional cost to current licensees. This latest upgrade extends the capabilities of the Aeroflex PXI 3000 Series test system to include fast and cost-effective production testing of mobile handsets, components, and chipsets to the new standard revision.

Aeroflex announced today that Silicon Laboratories selected Arendar 2009 Suite from VI Technology, an Aeroflex company. Arendar 2009 Suite is an enterprise software solution that utilizes a modular architecture, integrated security, comprehensive API and web accessibility to shorten test cycles and speed time-to-market.

On April 1, 2010, Test and Measurement World announced that the VI Technology MMTS Moving Video Test System would be awarded the prestigious Best in Test Award. This is the second year in a row readers of this leading magazine for engineers in electronic test and measurement have voted VI Technology, an Aeroflex Company, Best in Test in the “Audio/Video and Multimedia” category.

Aeroflex today introduced its PXI 3030 TD-SCDMA Measurement Suite to provide fast and cost-effective production testing of mobile handsets and RFICs based on ETSI 3GPP TS 34-122. “Aeroflex is targeting the rapid growth in demand for TD-SCDMA cell phones with our new test suite,” said Tim Carey, product manager, PXI 3000 Series. “With the total number of Chinese cell phones exceeding 300 million units, the need for high-throughput test syste...

Aeroflex today introduced the ALT-8000, the world’s first RF-based portable radio altimeter flightline test set. The ALT-8000 is a lightweight universal test set for 4.3 GHz FMCW (frequency modulated continuous carrier wave) radio altimeters and pulse radio altimeters with a large 30cm (12”) colour touch screen for ease of use.

Aeroflex today introduced the GPSG-1000, the first truly portable GPS and Galileo positional simulator. The GPSG-1000 is lightweight, easy to use, configurable, and inexpensive. It fills a gap in the market by providing a low-cost 12-channel test set that creates three-dimensional simulations.

Aeroflex and NetHawk (recently acquired by EXFO), leading global providers of Long Term Evolution (LTE) test equipment, announced today that they have developed a complete system for LTE network capacity testing over RF with real data services and applications. The EAST500 is a single integrated test system based upon proven test solutions: Aeroflex’s LTE RF air interface technology integrated with NetHawk’s load test capability.