embedded world 2024: Rohde & Schwarz presents its cutting-edge test solutions for embedded systems Embedded systems are the foundation of today's electronic devices, spanning sectors as diverse as consumer electronics, telecommunications, industrial, medical, automotive and aerospace applications. Ensuring seamless operation is critical, which means that engineers encounter complex challenges as they design increasingly compact embedded systems and align them with today's requirements for efficiency, safety, reliability and interoperability. Rohde & Schwarz offers comprehensive test and measurement solutions to meet these challenges and will present its highlights at the embedded world Exhibition & Conference 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg is home to embedded world Exhibition & Conference, where Rohde & Schwarz is showcasing its innovative test solutions.
Rohde & Schwarz is showcasing its state-of-the-art test and measurement solutions tailored to the embedded industry at the embedded world Exhibition & Conference. At the company's booth 4-218 in hall 4 of the Nuremberg Exhibition Center, visitors will have the opportunity to gain insights into embedded design testing, including testing of digital designs and interfaces, power electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, wireless connectivity and in-vehicle networks.
One-box test solution supports new Bluetooth Low Energy test features
One highlight will be the R&S CMW wideband radio communication test platform ( R&S CMW500 , R&S CMW270 ) covering the new Low Energy (LE) feature Bluetooth Channel Sounding (CS). CS extends the positioning capabilities of low energy devices based on high accuracy distance measurements. The R&S CMW platform offers fully featured RFPHY test capabilities using the phase-based ranging (PBR) principle. High-performance internal signal generators and analyzers allow repeatable high-quality device verification.
The R&S CMW platform also supports Bluetooth Low Energy over-the-air (OTA) receiver and transmitter measurements, as defined in the upcoming Unified Test Protocol (UTP) test mode. The OTA test capability allows easy RFPHY testing of devices that do not have a physical test connector. The new Bluetooth core specification defining the CS and UTP modes is expected to be released later this year.
The R&S CMW platform is a comprehensive, fully automated test solution for verifying the physical layer functions Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Classic with the addition of LE audio measurements. Visitors can experience the new LE test modes live at the Rohde & Schwarz booth.
Eight-channel MXO 5 oscilloscope sets new signal analysis standards
Another highlight is the MXO 5 oscilloscope from Rohde & Schwarz, the world's first eight-channel oscilloscope that can detect 4.5 million acquisitions and a total of 18 million waveforms per second across multiple channels. The MXO 5 shows more of a signal's activity than any other oscilloscope in both the time and frequency domains. With a simultaneous acquisition memory of 500 Mpoints across all eight channels, it offers twice the standard memory of competitive models. As the first eight-channel oscilloscope with digital triggering, it sets a new standard for signal analysis. It is also the first oscilloscope to offer 45 000 FFTs per second. Visitors to the Rohde & Schwarz booth will have the opportunity to see this innovative instrument in action, testing system-on-chip (SoC) power designs with multiphase buck converters.
Testing signal integrity in high-speed digital designs
High-speed digital interfaces play a pivotal role in electronic designs. Increasing data rates and integration densities are a challenge for designs at the IC, board and system levels. Visitors to the show can learn about powerful tools for system verification and debug, as well as compliance testing for signal integrity in interfaces, PCBs and interconnects, directly from experts in the field. Demo setups at the Rohde & Schwarz booth include USB 3.2 signal integrity debugging with receiver equalization emulation and advanced eye diagram analysis with the R&S RTP164B oscilloscope, as well as protocol decoding with the MXO 4 oscilloscope.
In addition, visitors will find a solution for fully automated (pre-)compliance testing and verification of high-speed cables (IEEE 802.3bj/by/cd/ck and PCIe 5.0/6.0) using the R&S ZNrun automation test suite, an R&S ZNA or R&S ZNB vector network analyzer and the R&S OSP320 open switch and control platform. The multiport physical layer analysis of a PCIe 6.0 compliant cable is performed by accurately de-embedding the signal with the R&S ZNB43 vector signal analyzer.
R&S CMX500 with new Wi-Fi 7 R&D capabilities
The new Wi-Fi 7 standard supports up to 16x16 MIMO with 320 MHz wide channels and 4096 QAM modulation, providing extremely fast and stable connections. When developing Wi-Fi 7 devices, the RF TX and RX characteristics must be measured under real-world conditions in signaling mode. The R&S CMX500 multi-technology multi-channel signaling tester is now available with integrated Wi-Fi 7 test functions. Test environments with multiple RF chains are particularly important in Wi-Fi 7, where multilink operation (MLO) is a key feature. The testers flexibility, support for multiple radio technologies and embedded IP test capabilities make it a versatile solution for a wide range of Wi-Fi 7-specific tests, such as 2x2 MIMO, 6 GHz band with out-of-band discovery, coexistence and E2E test capabilities.
Solving test challenges for UWB verification and FiRa Consortium certification
Accurate ranging, low power consumption, high security and reliability - these are the features of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology features that make it suitable for many secure ranging applications, especially as a digital key. At embedded
