Industry's First Measurement-grade 8x8 MIMO System
by Design World Staff
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Cleveland, Ohio- Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI) announces the industry's first measurement-grade 8x8 MIMO system. The system is used for primary research of next-generation RF MIMO devices and technologies.
Keithley introduced the industry's first 4x4 MIMO test equipment for R&D product development in late 2007. The new 8x8 MIMO system is built on the same award-winning measurement platform that provides capability and performance not found with any other RF test system:
--support for MIMO research applications ranging from two channels now up to eight
--flexible system configurations with individual system component instruments
--phase and amplitude control of the RF carrier
--less than ±1 nanosecond signal sampler synchronization
--less then 1 nanosecond peak-to-peak signal sampler jitter
--less than 1 degree of peak-to-peak RF-carrier phase jitter
By allowing for precise and stable multi-unit synchronization with these high performance measurement specifications, the new Keithley system extends support of 4x4 MIMO measurements currently being used for commercial test applications on demanding signals - such as 802.11n WiFi, 802.16e Mobile WiMAX Wave 2, and future standards such as 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) and UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband) - to the next generation of technologies and methodologies being researched.
www.keithley.com/rf
::Design World::