Left for NI RF wireless test & marketing senior manager Raajit Lall, technical marketing manager Pan Jianan, NI NI Taiwan semiconductor testing department marketing development manager Joey top.
NI published new RF function of semiconductor test system (STS), contains high power transmission and receiving, Real - Time packet tracking FPGA architecture, as well as digital predistortion.
High power RF port is one of the latest project in STS improvement plan, can help the RF front-end module manufacturers to meet the multiple testing requirements of RFIC and other smart devices, at the same time helps to reduce the cost. Due to the RF port, the tester are fully integrated with the STS, so the development of the RF test time and cost is reduced, and need not to sacrifice the measurement accuracy and efficiency. In addition, the integrated system is different from traditional automated test equipment (ATE), need not use extra expensive RF subsystem.
As the integration and RF front-end module components, more and more, also because of the new broadband standard and improve the peak average power, the device manufacturers need higher power RF measuring efficiency. STS new RF port in the state of the RF blind plug, can be transmitted at a rate of about + 38 dBm, and receiving, at a rate of about 40 + dBm is the function of the leading industry of other commercial solutions.
In addition, the STS can still perform 26 GHz S participation through fully functional software, FPGA architecture packet tracking number test, and the FPGA digital predistortion. With these functions, the STS is a new generation of RFIC production test of the ideal solution.
NI semiconductor testing assistant manager Ron Wolfe said: "NI continue to provide more wisdom efficiency alternative to RF and mixed signal device manufacturers, it was quite a blow to the semiconductor ATE. STS modularization of open architecture can help customers to save the cost of investment, enjoy the latest commercial technology at the same time, so despite the device under test is protean, also can improve their test performance at any time."
Went public in 2014 STS adopted engineers to build more wisdom efficiency of NI platform and ecosystem, in view of the semiconductor production test provides a different way. The platform includes 1 GHz bandwidth of the vector signal transceiver, fA levels of power measurement unit, the industry's leading commercial off-the-shelf software test management, TestStand Semiconductor Module, and more than 600 kinds of DC, mmWave PXI products.
Other functions are integrated timing and trigger function, through the PCI Express Gen 3 bus interface and subnanosecond level synchronization function, to achieve high speed data transmission. With LabVIEW software and TestStand environment well productivity, coupled with our partners, external IP with active ecological system composed of application engineer, can greatly reduce test cost, shortened product time-to-market, and ensure the tester can overcome the future challenge.
