Test & Measurement R&S®SMBV100A Vector Signal Generator Generating signals for today and tomorrow

R&S®SMBV100A Vector Signal Generator At a glance A state-of-the-art vector signal generator must be flexible and offer good signal characteristics along with an outstanding cost/benefit ratio. In all of these areas, the R&S®SMBV100A sets new standards in the mid-range class of instruments. The R&S®SMBV100A offers excellent RF performance along with very high output level and short setting times. At the same time, the R&S®SMBV100A can be equipped with an internal baseband generator to allow generation of a number of digital standards (e.g. HSPA+, LTE, WLAN IEEE 802.11ac). The wide frequency range...

R&S®SMBV100A Vector Signal ­Generator Benefits and key features High-performance RF for all types of applications ❙❙ Excellent phase noise ensures low EVM with digital ­signals ❙❙ High output level compensates for losses in test/system setup ❙❙ Fast settling time for quicker measurements ❙❙ Analog modulation for basic measurements ▷▷ page 10 Flexible signal processing and baseband ­connectivity ❙❙ CW interference and AWGN simulation ❙❙ Analog and digital baseband outputs ❙❙ Support for the R&S®EX-IQ-Box digital signal interface module ▷▷ page 12 Ready for future applications today ❙❙ Future-ready...

Ready for future ­applications today With constantly rising cost pressures, investments made today must also be able to meet future requirements. The R&S®SMBV100A was developed to satisfy this objective and is setting new standards for this class of instrument. Future-ready hardware concept The R&S®SMBV100A vector signal generator benefits from a carefully planned instrument concept. Depending on the configuration, the instrument can function as a pure I/Q upconverter, a cost-effective signal generator with integrated ARB or an advanced vector signal generator with internal signal generation...

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The R&S®SMBV-B10 baseband generator thus totally eliminates the need to generate test signals using an external computer and transfer them to the vector signal generator. This is especially beneficial in a development environment where fast, easy access to signal parameters is critical during both manual operation and remote operation. This helps to speed up the work flow and minimize development time. The realtime coder also enables the user to generate test sequences with a theoretically infinite length, e.g. with simple digitally modulated signals or internally generated digital standards...

Support for all ­important state-of-the-art digital ­standards With its internal baseband coder (R&S®SMBV-B10), the R&S®SMBV100A optionally allows users to generate signals covering all major digital communications standards as well as GNSS systems – and without needing any external signal generation software. Alternatively, waveforms can be generated for the digital standards using the external R&S®WinIQSIM2™ software. Besides applying predefined test signals, users also have free access to individual signal parameters. Users can thus generate standard-compliant cellular or wireless signals....

3GPP FDD/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+ ❙❙ Support of all physical channels of 3GPP FDD, HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA+ ❙❙ HSDPA H-sets 1 to 10 with channel coding plus userdefinable H-sets ❙❙ HSUPA fixed reference channels with channel coding ❙❙ Realtime generation of P-CCPCH and up to three DPCHs in downlink (with R&S®SMBV-K42 only) ❙❙ One UE in realtime in uplink (with R&S®SMBV-K42 only), up to 67 additional mobile stations via ARB ❙❙ MIMO and transmit diversity coding EUTRA/LTE ❙❙ FDD and TDD supported ❙❙ Physical layer modes OFDMA and SC-FDMA for downlink and uplink supported ❙❙ Supported physical channels include...

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