R&S®TS8980 LTE RF Test System

A test platform for development through to conformance testing

Features

The R&S®TS8980 is a RF test system family which covers the test needs from R&D through conformance for chipsets and mobile stations in WCDMA and LTE. It is modular and fully automated for RF transmitter, receiver and performance measurements.

The scalable hardware and software allows to offer cost efficient solutions in R&D and upgrade paths for precompliance and full conformance testing.

The different setups of R&S®TS8980 are applied for

  • Layer1 tests (LTE) (R&S®TS8980S)
  • R&D applications to create own test scenarios (LTE) (R&S®TS8980S)
  • Precompliance tests according to 3GPP TS 36.521-1 (LTE) and 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (WCDMA) ( R&S®TS8980S)
  • (Full) conformance testing according to 3GPP TS 36.521-1 (LTE) and 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (WCDMA) ( R&S®TS8980IB, R&S®TS8980FTA)
  • Network operator specific tests (at&t, Sprint, US Cellular, VzW,..) (R&S®TS8980IB, R&S®TS8980FTA)

The intuitive user interface R&S Contest provides

  • R&D applications and statements like if, eval, while, etc. for high flexible test scenarios
  • Debugging possibilities: Breakpoints, step-by-step execution
  • Easy-to-use graphical parameterization of test cases
  • DUT services like graphical antenna configurations
  • Online report with status of progress and cake diagram for overview
  • Summary report with filter for report explorer
  • Test results in html, xml or csv format and internal and external database access

The reusable structure of hardware and software supports upgrade paths to

  • Performance quality analysis (PQA) as pure software upgrade
  • Radio resource management (RRM)