electronica 2014: Keysight prepares test solutions range

Power Product Solutions

On show will be the Keysight N89000 Series prewired racks configurations in high-power applications. These racks support up to 90 kW of power using the N8900 Series of autoranging DC power supplies. Users can remotely program and control the rack system via LAN, USB or GPIB. The rack comes fully assembled for greater ease of use and safety. Parallel N8900 Series 15 kW units are used to create a single power supply with up to 90 kW of power.

Keysight’s N678X power family of products are used to characterise low-power consumption, such as used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Visitors can also learn how to improve test throughput with the new N79xx Advanced Power Systems solutions. This will be supported by an entire range of power solutions in AC & DC Power which are used in aerospace and defense, automotive, wireless and energy applications.

Power Device Characterisation

Keysight’s B1506A will be on parade showing how to optimise and minimiseswitching losses in power circuit designs. Power devices ultimately determine the power loss in an electronic circuit, so a deep understanding of their characteristics is critical to the development of reliable and energy efficient products.

The B1506A can measure I/V parameters to 3kV, 1.5kA with μΩ on-resistance and fA leakage current sensitivity over a wide temperature range, from -50C to +250C, and automatically measure capacitance and gate charge (Ciss, Coss, Crss, Rg, Qg) with no change in device cabling.

Design Validation and Prototyping

The test challenges faced by engineers when using Boundary Scan will be met by the x1149 Boundary Scan Analyser.

The analyser is a versatile yet simple to use tool that helps all the way through product design and test – from design validation and prototyping phase to pre-ramp up and onto the manufacturing test stage.

The x1149 offers Cover-Extend Technology (CET). CET is a patented and award-winning innovation that combines boundary scan and capacitive-coupled sensing technology to uniquely extend test coverage to devices outside the boundary scan chain.

Signal Integrity Measurements

The new Keysight digital, high-end Arbitrary Waveform Generator (pictured) and BERT products, will demonstrate how the instruments are addressing today’s requirements and the future demands of the info-tech, wireless, wireline, semiconductor and aerospace/defence markets. These instruments offer a superiors platform for stimulus test and feature excellent signal integrity measurements with high-end real-time and sampling scopes on response side.

Material Characterisation from mm-Wave to THz

Visitors will also be able to learn about measuring the relative permittivity and loss tangent of dielectric materials at mm-wave and THz frequency for critical information needed for material and circuit design, modelling, research, manufacturing and quality control. This information is particularly critical for stealth materials, dielectric substrates, microwave food products and biofuels, where accurate characterisation of their electromagnetic properties is required.

Wideband Signal Generation and Analysis

Capturing and understanding elusive signals and how to analyse transient signals using Keysight oscilloscopes and signal analysers will be demonstrated . In combination with real-time spectrum analysis tools, the test system can reveal what is happening inside product designs to solve technical problems for digital communications and radar applications that require demodulation and analysis of wideband signals.

Demodulation and Analysis of Wideband Signals

Many of today’s digital communications and radar applications require demodulation and analysis of wideband signals, which are often challenging test engineers. In addition to measuring over the wide bandwidth, it is often beneficial to capture and understand elusive signals and analyse transient signals. A demonstration will show how to combine instruments, such as oscilloscopes and signal analysers, with real-time signal analysis tools to help engineers understand what is happening inside their design and how to solve their technical problems.

FPGA Customisation

Visitors can learn how to customise the FPGAs inside the M9703A AXIe high performance digitiser platform to address emerging multi-channel applications within the context of 5G, Massive MIMO, LTE-Advanced, beamforming and phased array antennas. With SystemVue and the new M9703A firmware development kit, R&D and DVT engineers are able to access and customise the FPGA inside the M9703A AXIe digitiser platform. This is accomplished through a high-level programming and simulation environment that enables custom, real-time signal processing, performs fast prototyping and also can integrate additional tools for signal analysis and generation.

Innovative Solutions for Research

And visitors can learn how to develop multifunction and multiport scalable test beds for research projects with PXIe-based measurement setups. Understand the benefits of multiple measurement functionalities, switching, attenuation and other components integrated into a single, “ready-to-go” chassis. Experience the same measurement science, using known and proven Keysight software, to make measurements that can be quickly correlated and transferred between traditional bench top instruments and PXI-based setups throughout the product development lifecycle.

Keysight Technologies

This will be Keysight’s Technologies debut at electronica as a separate company. On Sept. 19, 2013, Agilent Technologies announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies through a tax-free spinoff of its electronic measurement business. Keysight Technologies, began operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilent on Aug. 1, 2014. A full separation is anticipated in early November 2014. Keysight is expected to trade on the NYSE under the symbol KEYS.

Keysight Technologies can be found in Hall A1, Booth 506.