PAx Instrumentation
A variety of instruments make the PAx Test System suitable for testing today’s RF Power Amplifiers and Front-End Modules used in cellular and connectivity applications, WLAN standards up to Wi-Fi 6/6E/7, <4G to 5G sub-8.5 GHz wireless and beyond, Bluetooth plus a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) standards.
DC and Power Instrumentation
HCOVI
High current general purpose VI
- 8 Channels per Board
- Voltage: -2V to +8V
- Current: 1 A continuous
- 16 bit force/measure, synchronization, analog bus
- 200 KHz digitizer capability
PADPS1
Power Amplifier device power supply
- One measure FIFO per channel
- 4 Channels per Board
- Voltage: -2 V to +16 V
- Current: 2 A per channel
- 16 bit force/measure, parallel measure
- Channels can be ganged for higher currents
- 250 Ksps capture in 4096 memory
QFVI
Quad high voltage, high current, floating programmable power supply
- Full Kelvin, has programmable voltage and current clamps and offers a 300 Ksps sample rate.
- 4 Channels per board
- Voltage: -60 V to +60 V
- Current: 5 A per channel (pulsed), 1.5 A continuous, voltage and current ganging.
Digital Instrumentation
FX2
Part of FX digital instruments family for device control buses, such as, MIPI, I2C, and SPI
- Fully independent programming of timing and level on every channel
- Synchronization signaling to/from other instruments
- Read/Write memory for generating digital protocols used in RF front end applications
- Multi-site programming model
- Full pattern sequencing at 200 Mbps
- Supported with a comprehensive, next-generation program development and debug toolset
- I/O per Board: 32
- Maximum Pins: 256
- Drive / Compare: -2.0 V to 6.5 V
- Pattern Rate:
- 100 MHz / 200 Mbps
- 200 MHz / 400 Mbps
RF Instrumentation
RedDragon
Test Module for 5G NR FR1/FR2, mmWave and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7
- Increased modulation support for 5G NR FR1 and FR2 FEM sub-8.5 GHz
- Immediate Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 including 7.126 GHz band
- Building blocks for 5G NR FR2 mmWave 23.45 – 48.5 GHz
- Configurable with up to 32 Universal RF ports
- Up to 8.5 GHz RF modulated source and 8.5 GHz RF measure
- Noise source available on all ports
- RF Harmonic measure capability from 8 to 18 GHz using HMM
- 3 Channel AWG with Envelop Tracking Option
DragonRF
Test Module for 4G and Beyond
- Configurable with 16 or 32 Universal RF ports per module with an optional port to pin expander, doubling the number of RF ports to 64 pins
- Up to 6 GHz RF modulated source and 8 GHz RF measure
- <1 ms RF settling time on level and frequency change
- Quad site site and octal site RF source with single dual syntheziers respectively
- Each receiver is connected to a digitizer with up to 400 Msps, or 16-bit
DSP Instrumentation
DIGHB
Hummingbird Digitizer
- Four channel, 14 Bit, 400 MSPS or 16 Bit, 250 MSPS waveform digitizer
- Provides real-time features such as decimation and averaging to enable faster test times and improved dynamic performance
- Offers an analog bandwidth of up to 800 MHz
- DIGHB is supported on PAx and Diamondx
Instruments by Name
- DIGHB – Hummingbird Digitizer
- DragonRF – Industry leading RF source and receive with scalar and vector measure
- HCOVI – 8 Channel General Purpose VI
- FX2 – Digital instrument for device control buses, such as, MIPI, I2C, and SPI
- PADPS1 – Power Amplifier Device Power Supply instrument 4 identical source channels.
- QFVI – High voltage, high current floating programmable power supply
- RedDragon – RF module for 5G NR FR1/FR2, mmWave and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7
