5G

PCTEST Engineering Laboratory which recently became part of the Element Materials Technology Group, has acquired the latest 5G test solutions from Rohde & Schwarz for RF and RRM testing in the FR1 and FR2 frequency ranges.

The XRF16 system-on-module, featuring the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ Radio Frequency (RF) System-on-Chip SoC Gen-2 has been unveiled by Avnet.

Keysight Technologies says that it is the first company to gain approval from 3GPP  for 5G new radio (NR) test cases that support carrier aggregation (CA) technology, using its Protocol Conformance Toolset.

CEVA has announced that Picocom has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC12 DSP in its forthcoming distributed unit (DU) baseband offload System-on-Chip (SoC) for 5G small cells.

Spirent Communications has announced its work with China Telecom on system-wide performance verification and assessment efforts for 5G Standalone (SA) network equipment. 

Keysight Technologies has released LoadCore 5G Core (5GC) Testing software – and announced that China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) has selected LoadCore to validate performance using 5GC network equipment provided by major infrastructure vendors.

CommAgility has announced the general availability of its PHYRefChain-5G software which supports the development of 5G base station technology and will simplify small calls. 

The ADRV9026 quad-channel wideband RF transceiver from Analog Devices is in stock at distributor Mouser Electronics.

Qingdao Hisense Communication has selected Keysight's 5G test platform to validate the performance of its 5G designs and accelerate the market introduction of high-quality 5G devices, including smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Xilinx has announced that the Xilinx Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) will be utilised by Samsung Electronics for worldwide 5G commercial deployments. Xilinx Versal ACAPs provide a universal, flexible and scalable platform that can address multiple operator requirements across multiple geographies.