Whether you design commercial or military communications systems, you use digital components to build your baseband subsystem. The digital subsystem is a major contributor to the success of your final design for two reasons: 1) baseband performance influences RF performance, and 2) the majority of signal intelligence resides in the digital subsystem. For these reasons, it is critical to verify your design characteristics at the digital baseband level to avoid costly rework later in the development process.
Agilent’s N5110B Baseband Studio for waveform capture and playback is a powerful set of tools optimized for IQ waveforms that provide the speed and memory depth you need to efficiently and effectively verify your baseband design at the digital plane. The software enables you to easily capture real-time digital IQ signals directly from your device and save them to a file or send them to the Agilent 89600 Series vector signal analyzer (VSA) software for performance evaluation. It also allows you to play back your custom or captured IQ waveforms to generate digital IQ, analog IQ, and RF test signals to test your radio at different stages in design with a common test stimulus.
Baseband Studio for waveform capture and playback is a power tool for baseband design verification that will help you:
cut performance verification time from weeks to days
gain confidence in your baseband design
reduce costly rework later in the development process
Baseband Studio for waveform capture and playback software seamlessly connects with a variety of Agilent design and analysis tools, including the N5101A Baseband Studio PCI card and the N5102A Baseband Studio digital signal interface module to perform digital capture, and the 89600 Series VSA software for analysis. You can play back custom or captured waveform files from the PCI card memory (2 GB RAM) or from the PC’s hard disc drive (HDD), combined with the PCI card memory to generate digital baseband signals with the digital signal interface module or analog I/Q and RF/MW signals with the E4438C ESG or E8267D PSG vector signal generator.
Qualify baseband performance and identify issues early in the design cycle
Gain confidence in your baseband modem design and reduce costly rework
Verify baseband coding algorithms and correlate baseband performance to RF performance
Simplify your test setup and save time by easily performing verification tasks