5G device test system makes European debut in Munich

The solution offers customers the high multi-site parallelism and versatility needed for multi-band mmWave frequencies, and with operational ranges of 24GHz to 44GHz and 57GHz to 70GHz, it also enables customers to reduce their time to market for new designs running at mmWave frequencies.

Based on an innovative mmWave card cage with up to eight mmWave instruments, this highly versatile and cost-effective ATE solution performs on the level of high-end bench instruments.

The scalable system’s wideband testing functionality allows it to handle full-rate modulation and de-modulation for ultra-wideband (UWB), 5G-NR mmWave up to 1GHz, WiGig (802.11ad/ay) up to 2GHz and antenna-in-package (AiP) devices in addition to executing beamforming and over-the-air testing.

The solution is architecturally distinctive with its modular implementation providing as many as 64 bi-directional mmWave ports.

This allows not only the use of different 5G and WiGig frequency modules, but also the addition of modules as new frequency bands are rolled out worldwide.

Advantest’s new mmWave solution provides a pathway for customers to lower the cost of test for their current and upcoming 5G-NR devices while leveraging their existing investments in Advantest’s well-established Wave Scale RF testers.

Because it covers a largely unused spectrum, mmWave greatly increasing the amount of bandwidth available, making it easier to implement 5G networks.