Keysight Technologies, Inc. has announced its Signal Optimizer software, the industry's first and only all-in-one software for calibration, signal creation, and signal analysis of candidate 5G waveforms.

Software AG and Dell are introducing a new Internet of Things (IoT) architecture that makes it easier for businesses to deploy real-time analytics projects at the network edge, in direct contact with digital devices and sensors. Under this agreement, Dell's Edge Gateway 5000 Series, designed for the most demanding operations in high-performance environments, integrates a version of Software AG's Apama Streaming Analytics platform.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has introduced the U7243B USB 3.1 Transmitter Performance Validation and Certification Testing Software, the most comprehensive on the market for the USB 3.1 Type-C specification.

Anritsu presents a new version of its award-winning cloud-based test management tool SkyBridge Tools™, which reduces the time required for testing and verification of distributed antenna systems (DAS) by up to 90%.

Advanced Navigation has announced the release of its GNSS/INS post-processing software, Kinematica, an easy-to-use GNSS/INS post-processing software that allows users to process GNSS and inertial data after collection and achieve more accurate position, speed, and orientation than is possible in real time.  

NI has announced LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite, which combines SDR (Software Defined Radio) hardware with comprehensive design software to help engineers prototype 5G systems.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has introduced two new additions to its Signal Studio software suite of signal creation tools. The first is signal generation software for the Wi-SUN standard based on IEEE 802.15.4g.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has introduced Signal Studio for Power Amplifier (PA) Testing N7614B, a general-purpose all-in-one software package designed to help engineers improve PA efficiency through crest factor reduction (CFR), envelope tracking (ET), and digital predistortion (DPD) technologies.

The SOPCAWIND tool is software that facilitates the design of wind farms, taking into account not only energy productivity aspects but also the potential impact the wind farm may have on the environment, radar systems, or other nearby telecommunications infrastructure. It also evaluates noise levels, the shadow effect on nearby homes, and applies criteria for heritage protection and buffer zones for power lines and other installations.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has released the latest version of its X-Series measurement application. This software offers the most comprehensive RF specification compliance testing for LTE-Advanced FDD and TDD transmitters and components, based on the 3GPP Release 11 specification. It is available for both benchtop and modular products.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has released enhancements to its Signal Studio N7609B software for global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). The software now includes real-time simulation of satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS), such as WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, GAGAN, and QZSS (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System for Japan).

Aeroflex Limited presents the latest update to its Reader software, which provides significant improvements in the speed of testing mobile RF devices in service centers.

MathWorks has announced enhanced support for wireless communications and radar design with MATLAB and Simulink. The 2013a (R2013a) enhancements to Phased Array System Toolbox and SimRF now allow designers of wireless communications and radar systems to accelerate modeling and simulation within MATLAB and Simulink environments.

MathWorks has announced that Semtech Corporation used MATLAB and Simulink to reduce the development time of optimized digital receivers for wireless RF devices. Semtech, a leading supplier of high-quality analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, adopted model-based design tools to prototype FPGAs in half the time, shorten the verification period from weeks to days, and reduce development time by 33%.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has optimized its CDMA Interactive Functional Testing (IFT) software N5971A by integrating the automation from IFT N5973A for the Inter-RAT LTE-CDMA conformance test plan. This solution enables developers and operators to quickly and repeatedly generate measurement reports in accordance with the LTE-CDMA handover test plan of leading operators.

The METRANET software package is a complete and powerful radar data processor (RDP) system designed to ingest real-time data from one or more radars and create/distribute/display/archive radar "products".