Keysight, a Platinum sponsor of European Microwave Week for the past eleven years, will offer workshops and demonstrations of testing solutions in our four main areas: aerospace and defense, device characterization, simulation with Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS), and research and education. The demonstrations will focus on the following aspects.
Generation and analysis of broadband signals
Learn to capture and understand sporadic signals and analyze transient signals with Keysight oscilloscopes and signal analyzers. Combined with real-time spectrum analysis tools, the test system can reveal what's happening inside product designs, enabling you to troubleshoot technical issues in digital communications and radar applications where broadband signals need to be demodulated and analyzed.
Multi-emitter tests for electronic warfare
Learn how to generate signals for multi-emitter simulation, from 0 to 40 GHz, and discover how to reduce program costs across the entire electronic warfare system through improved simulation fidelity in the loop. Research, development, and reprogramming cycles for electronic warfare receivers rely on innovative testing solutions to achieve efficient designs and advancements.
Multichannel antenna calibration reference solution
Discover how to dramatically reduce antenna calibration times from weeks to days with the multi-channel antenna calibration reference solution and its revolutionary concepts. Using a high-performance AXIe digitizing platform, which incorporates multiple channels with phase coherence and real-time digital downconversion, measurements can be taken in parallel on several antenna elements, resulting in faster, highly accurate antenna phase and amplitude measurements. This reference solution provides a basic system and essential elements for quick and easy integration into an existing multi-channel antenna calibration test environment.
Characterization of materials from millimeter waves to THz
Learn to measure the relative permittivity and loss tangent of dielectric materials at millimeter-wave and THz frequencies to obtain essential information for the design, modeling, research, manufacturing, and quality control of materials and circuits. This information is especially important for radar-invisible materials, dielectric substrates, microwaveable food products, and biofuels, for which accurate characterization of their electromagnetic properties is required.
Complete characterization of active components
Learn how to verify the correct operation of today's highly integrated, feature-rich electronic components under every conceivable condition. Test instruments, such as the PNA-X Series microwave network analyzers, offer integrated multifunction measurement capabilities that enable comprehensive characterization of active devices, including amplifiers, mixers, and frequency converters.
Phase noise measurement and noise figure
Learn about recent improvements in Y-factor noise figure measurement with new USB preamplifiers, better-calibrated noise sources, and improved mismatch uncertainty estimation. The PNA-X instruments' cold noise technique and high-precision source correction methodology enable maximum accuracy in noise figure measurements, especially in challenging environments such as wafer measurements.
Genuine electromagnetic/circuit co-simulation capability
Learn how to perform true electromagnetic/circuit cosimulation with Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS), which includes scanning and optimization with a common OpenAccess database architecture. Demonstrations will showcase examples of 3D electromagnetic simulation in the time and frequency domains, including EMI/EMC analysis.
Design of RF power amplifier modules with ADS
Learn how to design a multi-technology RF power amplifier module using an ADS layout. Demonstrations will include setting up the environment to address module design, encompassing various technologies, such as configuring substrate definitions, element layout, routing, inductor design, full module simulation, verification, and export for manufacturing.
Innovative solutions for research
Learn to develop scalable, multi-function, multi-port test benches for research projects with PXI-based measurement configurations. Discover the advantages of a wide range of measurement, switching, attenuation, and other functionalities integrated into a single, ready-to-use chassis. Apply the same measurement science, using the proven Keysight software you already know, to perform measurements that you can immediately correlate and transfer between traditional benchtop instruments and PXI-based configurations throughout your product development lifecycle.
Research on 5G and millimeter wave communications
Learn how to generate and analyze various millimeter wave communication signals, including 802.11ad, 5G and return traffic standards, using a flexible set of solutions, including generators, up- and down-converters, analyzers and power sensors.
Keysight technical workshops
Keysight's "Connect with the Experts" workshops will allow attendees to meet Keysight experts specializing in the following topics:
• New applications for the aerospace and defense sector that require advanced testing solutions.
• Latest advances in materials measurement and device characterization.
• Solving design challenges using EDA software.
• The future of mobile communications research: the search for higher and wider frequency bands.
• Fundamentals of RF and microwave measurements.
Register for Keysight's technical workshops at keysight.com/find/eumw2014.
