Agilent Technologies Inc. [NYSE: A] is going to showcase their newest test and measurement solutions for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) at the upcoming 2007 European Microwave Conference, Pavilion 908. This event will take place during European Microwave Week in Munich, Germany, October 8th through 12th. The following solutions will be on display, coordinated to support the July 2007 release of the standards (36.211 V1.2.1, 36.212 V1.2.3) for the LTE physical layer specifications at 1.4, 1.6, 3.0/3.2, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz bandwidths.
LTE option to the 89601A Vector Signal Analysis software, which provides R&D engineers with deep insight into the RF and modulation characteristics of an LTE prototype devices. The 89601VSA software can analyze both uplink and downlink LTE signals of all specified bandwidths with Type I FDD frame structure and employs extensive channel-based, color-coding and marker coupling among multiple traces to simplify signal analysis and measurements. Agilent’s N7624B Signal Studio for 3GPP LTE Signal Studio is PC-based software for creating standards-based LTE signals and interoperates with Agilent’s ADS system simulation software and is designed to work with Agilent’s N5182A MXG and E4438C ESG vector signal generators, creating single and multi-carrier uplink and downlink LTE signals. Agilent 3GPP LTE Wireless Library (E8895) for use with the Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software streamlines the design and verification process of PHY layer signal processing algorithms and IF/RF processing. The library provides preconfigured simulation setups with signal sources for downlink and uplink, along with transceiver analysis test-benches for downlink and uplink.
The downlink models have been updated to support FDD/TDD mode, new P-SCH, new S-SCH, new P-BCH positions in subframe 0 and partial resource block in subframe 0 of odd number of resource blocks. The uplink models have also been updated to include channel coding/decoding according to TS36.211 v1.2.1 and TS36.212 v1.2.3 of the standard.


