3G Protocol Analysis Test System

For new mobile phones, after protocol stacks, RF and DSP have been developed, a major task is to integrate the three parts and to get the prototype mobile working reliably. Up until now, there has been a lack of test tools that are designed specifically to meet the needs of integration teams; Aeroflex's WCDMA ACE is designed to meet this need.

• Powerful network emulator for integration, regression and pre-conformance testing of WCDMA terminals
• Full protocol decode and debugging tools
• 3GPP Release 99, Rel-5 HSDPA and Rel-6 HSUPA capable
• Supports early development of protocol test scenarios
• Compact, one-box solution with integrated PC
• Emulation of up to 3 cells to enable handover testing
• Built-in fading simulator option
• Powerful, state of the art test development environment allows testing on partial or complete terminal designs
• Proven GUI features with a track record of boosting engineering productivity

Full conformance test systems are too costly to be purchased in sufficient volumes for integration testing and radio test sets have the limitation that they rely on the design being almost complete before they can correctly inter-operate with the device under test. The WCDMA ACE is designed so that each engineer carrying out integration testing can have their own network emulator and it can also be used to test incomplete designs - for example the RF hardware, DSP and Layer 2 (L2) of the protocol stack without Layer 3 (L3) present.