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For the very latest specifications visit www.aeroflex.com Conformance Test 6103 AMR AIME - AMR Layer 1& Protocol Analysis 6103 AIME AMR/CT - AMR Conformance Test Solution • Protocol analyzer, Layer 1 tester and conformance tester for GSM AMR terminals • Modular and expandable from R&D use to full Conformance Test System • Accredited GCF and PTCRB test platform • Simple to use script driven test environment • Supports Half Rate, Full Rate & Enhanced Full Rate speech • Supports all AMR Coding Schemes • Supports RATSCCH and DTX frames and signalling • Voice Quality Assessment tool • Layer 3 Message Encoder option The introduction of AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) speech frames presents a new challenge for the GSM mobile terminal developers. Not only must half rate, full rate and enhanced full rate speech frames be created, encoded and decoded, but support must also be provided for eight new full rate coding schemes and six new half rate coding schemes. Additionally, the adaptive nature of AMR must be accommodated. With each AMR speech frame (50 per second) a set of in-band control bits are sent. These allow the current coding rate to be signaled, in addition to requests for changes in the rate of the remote sender. Also, it should be noted that AMR is asymmetric - uplink and downlink coding rates can be changed independently. Additionally, the in-band signaling allows only a selection of four rates from the possible six or eight to be in use at any one time. These four rates are referred to as the active codec set. AMR allows for the uplink and downlink active codec sets to be different. AMR also introduces a new set of DTX frames, complicating the whole DTX procedure. Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS) ProCLAIME range of protocol analyzers increases with the addition of the 6103 AMR AIME and 6103 AIME AMR/CT. Capable of emulating an AMR network and all the complex coding schemes and protocol introduced to support AMR. The 6103 AMR AIME is designed to meet the early R&D challenges such as RF, DSP and protocol stack development. To protect customer investments in test systems, RIWS offers the ability to upgrade to the 6103 AIME AMR/CT a fully compliant AMR conformance tester capable of running both the AMR RF and Protocol tests required to prove compliance against 3GPP TS51.010. The 6103 AIME AMR/CT is listed at the GCF and the PTCRB as Test Platform 10 and was the first test platform to support AMR TS51.010 test cases. Due to its ability to run both RF and Protocol tests the 6103 AIME AMR/CT has more AMR test cases approved by either the GCF or the PTCRB than any other AMR supported platform. *Illustration of customer configured system in Layer 1 & Protocol Configuration using 6103 AIME AMR/CT and other equipment manufacturers' products.