mi!SmallCellVeriPHY Test Suite Shortens LTE Small-Cell Product Time-to-Market

It also removes the need for product engineers to create such validation tools on the fly, significantly saving product development time. mi!SmallCellVeriPHY addresses this testing need in a cost effective manner.



The test suite complements mimoOn’s leading small cell mi!SmallCellPHY™ LTE PHY, mi!SmallCellSTACK™ protocol stack and mi!SmallCellSPECTRUM™ advanced scheduling software solutions. Central to the package is a MAC emulator, which provides the necessary functionality to translate and inject test vector data into the PHY layer. The MAC emulator can be adapted to interface with any Small Cell Forum compliant MAC-PHY interface. Customers may create their own test vectors or license packages offered by mimoOn:



• Uplink and downlink functional testing

• Uplink and downlink RF conformance testing

• PHY layer conformance tests



“Much of the end product quality depends on the low level functionality in the PHY and DSP. PHY level testing is extremely challenging; we have invested in this test suite so product developers can minimize the time and effort put into verifying the low level functionality and spend more time developing differentiating features,” says Jan Westmeijer, mimoOn VP of Product Development.



Analyst house, Infonetics Research predicts small cell deployment will increase to 12 percent in 2012 from 6 percent in 2011, reaching a total value of 2.1 billion USD by 2016; LTE small cells will become the dominant deployed small cell technology by 2015.