Sub-6GHz 5G NR test solution is 3GPP-compliant

26th February 2018

Mick Elliott

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At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona National Instruments announced a sub-6GHz test reference solution compliant with the 3GPP Release 15 specification for 5G New Radio (NR). With commercial 5G NR deployments below 6GHz on the horizon engineers are actively developing sub-6GHz RF components and devices.

The accelerated pace of 5G standardisation is driving intense pressure to bring products to market quickly.

NI’s sub-6GHz 5g NR reference solution is a cost-effective and high-performance option for test that helps engineers quickly characterise their designs and more easily transition from R&D to production test environments.

The new reference test solution from NI is well-suited for testing new wideband RFICs, especially those operating in the 3.3-4.2GHz and 4.4-5.-GHz bands. ,

Engineers can test devices operating with 400MHz of continuous signal bandwidth and beyond with the PXIe-5840 Vector Signal Transceiver (VST), which includes

1 GHz of instantaneous signal generation and analysis bandwidth up to 6GHz.

With the NI VST, the solution delivers residual EVM performance better than 0.32% (50dB) for 100MHz NR signals along with faster measurement speed.

A critical component of this solution is NI-RFmx NR measurement software. Which has evolved in conjunction with the 3GPP specification.

The latest version of NI-RFmx NR measurement software offers 5G NR waveforms and measurement capability compliant with the first official specification of 3GPP Release 15 for non-standalone NR, which empowers engineers to test both OFDMA and DFT OFDM carrier aggregated waveforms with flexible subcarrier spacing from 15-120kHz.