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E1963A W-CDMA/HSPA Test Application Revision Information

Last updated: September 2, 2009

This document describes the features in the Agilent Technologies E1963A W-CDMA Mobile Test Application releases. This document contains the original features, as well as enhancements that have been added over time.

If you are interested in comparing the key feature differences between the latest releases of each of the W-CDMA/HSPA Test and Lab Applications, see:

W-CDMA/HSPA Applications Feature Comparison

   
CAUTION
You may need to upgrade the hardware in your test set before installing the application firmware described here. If you install application firmware on a test set with incompatible hardware, the following may occur:

To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for your testing needs, please review the hardware requirement information at:

http://www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades

   

Select the appropriate link below to view the required release.

A.15 Release - October 2009

For the most up-to-date information about this release, please visit www.agilent.com/find/8960manuals.

Hardware Requirements

Please be aware that this release has specific hardware requirements to be able to run correctly.

To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for this release, please review the hardware requirement information at:

http://www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades

Measurements

  • The E1963A now includes the QPSK EVM measurement. This measurement can be used to determine the error between the transmitted signal of a UE and the desired ideal signal, like the Waveform Quality measurement. The difference is that the QPSK EVM measurement expects a QPSK modulated input signal, which is similar to the WCDMA uplink signal with only one code channel. The data carried by the QPSK symbols sequence can be any pattern. There are several results reported with this measurement. These include the following:

    • Error Vector Magnitude (EVM)
    • Peak EVM - the maximum symbol EVM which is the calculated EVM at each QPSK symbol in the measurement interval
    • Phase Error
    • Origin Offset
    • Frequency Error

    See SETup:EVMQpsk , INITiate , READ , and FETCh:EVMQpsk .

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A.14.18 Release - May 2009

For the most up-to-date information about this release, please visit www.agilent.com/find/8960manuals.

Hardware Requirements

Please be aware that this release has specific hardware requirements to be able to run correctly.

To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for this release, please review the hardware requirement information at:

http://www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades

Call Processing

  • The E1963A includes HSPA+ 64QAM DL test modes with signaling, HSPA+ MAC_ehs and Layer 2 enhancements. Layer 2 enhancements involve dynamically controlling the RLC PDU and SDU sizes instead of them being fixed. H-Set 8 is the one FRC that is now defined with 64QAM specifically for testing HSPA+ devices. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. Refer to the following items:
    • Changes on the HS-SCCH coding scheme to accommodate 64QAM: To be able to support signaling of three modulation formats (QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM), the coding of HS-SCCHs changes if the UE is configured to be able to use 64QAM modulation type by higher layer signaling and the modulation format on the HS-PDSCHs is 16QAM or 64QAM.
    • New HS-DSCH Transport Block table defined for 64QAM: To support the 64QAM modulation format, a new table of HS-DSCH Transport Block Size and a corresponding table of K0,I of different numbers of channelization codes and modulation schemes are defined in 25.321 v7.8.0. To differentiate the additional K0,I table in release 7 from the existing K0,I table defined in release 5, the former is named octet aligned table, the latter is named bit aligned table. The selection between the two tables in UE depends on 3 Information Elements transmitted from the network which are defined in 25.331 v7.8.0:
      • DL MAC header type
      • Downlink 64QAM configured
      • HS-DSCH TB size table
    • H-SET 8 (64QAM modulation): Each 3GPP FRC H-Set defines a static configuration at the transport channel and physical channel level (for example, block size, number of HS-PDSCHs, inter-TTI distance, number of HARQ processes). The end result is a fixed data rate for the purposes of easier more consistent testing. Each FRC H-Set is associated with a particular UE category. FRC H-Sets 1, 2, 3, 6 and 10 have both QPSK and 16QAM variants, H-Set 4 and 5 only have QPSK variants. This is because UE categories 11 and 12, which are associated with H-Set 4 and 5 respectively, are only capable of QPSK modulation. H-Set 8 only has 64QAM variants. The FRC does not define the MAC-hs and MAC-ehs parameters such as the number of transmissions of a block and the RV sequence, so you must still manually configure these items. H-Set 8 implies that MAC-ehs be applied instead of MAC-hs, octet-aligned HS-DSCH Transport Block Size table be applied. H-Set 8 does not specify the MAC-d PDU size. However, you still need to specify the MAC-ehs SDU size. This can be done using the MAC-d PDU size.

      New RB test mode parameters to support testing UE categories greater than 12.
    • MAC-ehs: The use of an octet-aligned table requires MAC-ehs (see CALL:FDDTest:HSDSchannel:UDEFined:MACEHS:TBSTable:ALIGnment ). MAC-ehs is introduced to support the 64QAM modulation type and MIMO to achieve higher data rate at the MAC layer.
  • HSDPA 14.4Mbps RB Test and FDD Test modes and arbitrary configuration of downlink code allocation: Downlink throughput with HSDPA test modes in increased to a maximum of 14.4Mbps (Category 10). An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.

    Also the ability is provided to flexibly configure channel codes to set up to 15 HS-PDSCHs needed for maximum HSDPA throughput. H-Set 10 allows up to 15 HS-DSCH code channels.
    • Arbitrary DL code configuration (collision detection): You can freely set channelization codes in the allowable integer ranges, and the test set will apply a code collision detection procedure on all active channels and report a warning when a collision is detected.
  • Support for Band XII channels (UL/DL); Band XIII channels (UL/DL); Band XIV channels (UL/DL). See CALL:CHANnel , CALL:UPLink:CHANnel[:MCHannel] , CALL:SETup , CALL:STATus:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:RBReconfig:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:TCReconfig:FBINdicator? , and CALL:STATus:SETup[:PCReconfig]:FBINdicator? . An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • 3GPP TS 34.121 related enhancements:
    • Independent H-RNTI: The UE identity values sent on the four HS-SCCHs (H-RNTIs) are extended so that all four can be set independently. This provides support for 3GPP TS 34.121 s9.4.1. In this release, you can configure the state of any HS-SCCH to be off, i.e. neither allocating the HS-SCCH in the test set nor configuring the UE to allocate that HS-SCCH through RRC messages when a HSDPA or HSPA connection is established (see CALL:FDDTest:HSSCchannel[1]:CONFig:STATe ).
    • Existing preset call configurations have been expanded to add configurability for the HSDPA and HSUPA sub-tests defined in the 3GPP TS 34.121 Annex C tables. This has added 26 new preset call configurations. Previously there were (5) HSDPA and (2) HSPA preset call configuration settings. These are retained as the "generic" setups but additional sub-set setups are added.
    • Support for two new data types (PRBS20 and PRBS23) is provided for use with W-CDMA or HSDPA channels. This adds compliance for 3GPP TS 34.121 s9.2.1A, C, D, E, F, and G. Sections 9.2.1H and I are also supported when 64QAM is the selected modulation type (see ) CALL:FDDTest:HSDSchannel:DATA , CALL:DTCHannel:DATA , and CALL:HSDPa:SERVice:RBTest:HSDSchannel:DATA ).
    • The ranges of the relative levels for the E-HICH, E-AGCH, and ERGCH are extended to support 3GPP TS 34.121 sections 10.2.1.1, 10.3.1.1, 10.3.1.2, and 10.4.1.
    • The AG Pattern has been extended to 8 values, adding support for 34.121 section 10.4.1 test.When the Absolute Grant mode parameter is set to "Pattern" then the application will transmit a continuous sequence of values to the UE over the E-AGCH (see CALL:HSUPa ).
  • A new parameter has been added to set the activation time of WCDMA to GSM handovers. See CALL:HANDoff:SYSTem:GSM:ATIMe .
  • SMS TP-OA, TP-RA, RP-OA extension - allows you to configure parameters TP-OA, TP-RA, RP-OA. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.

Measurements

  • HSUPA IQ tuning, phase discontinuity measurement, waveform quality. EVM measurements are enhanced to support use with HSUPA. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • SEM enhancement: This 34.121 measurement has been modified for certain frequency bands that have small frequency separation. Also, an absolute measurement result has been added to the standard and this has been incorporated. See SETup:WSEMask and FETCh:WSEMask . An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • An in-channel power result has been added to the Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) measurement. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See FETCh:WACLeakage .
  • The Inner Loop Power measurement now supports use with the 12.2k RMC + HSDPA channel type. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • The frequency range of the Fast Device Tune measurement has been extended.

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A.13.13 Release - September 2008

For the most up-to-date information about this release, please visit www.agilent.com/find/8960manuals.

Hardware Requirements

Please be aware that this release has specific hardware requirements to be able to run correctly.

To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for this release, please review the hardware requirement information at:

http://www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades

Call Processing

  • 5.74 Mbps HSUPA (2ms TTI) in RB test mode and FDD test mode - The test set now supports 5.74 Mbps HSUPA (2ms TTI) in addition to the previously supported 2 Mbps HSUPA (10ms TTI), allowing full support of the E-DCH Category 6 HSUPA device verification and manufacturing. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • One-box video loopback - Allows a video call using just one test set and one UE by looping the voice and video data sent by the UE back to the UE. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • AMR/WB-AMR real-time vocoder and digital audio interface - This release includes an AMR/WB-AMR vocoder, which is supported in both voice loopback and with the digital audio interface (playing and recording of pre-defined audio files). This allows for the audio codec verification and real-time end-to-end audio testing. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See CALL:SERVice:AMR:RAB .
  • Short message service (SMS) - Allows you to test both the cell broadcast and point-to-point (mobile terminated and mobile originated messages) SMS capability of your UE (previously SMS was only supported in the lab application). An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See Short Message Service (SMS) .
  • FM source - The test set, with an external adapter (E5520A) connecting to the RF IN/OUT port, can generate FM mono signals from 10-110 MHz, allowing for calibration of FM receiver of your UE. See FM Broadcast .
  • Equipment Identity Request can now be configured to request from the UE either the IMEI, IMEISV, or both. See CALL:EIDentity , CALL:MS:REPorted:EISV? and CALL:MS:REPorted:EISV:SVN? .
  • Support for Band XI. See CALL:STATus:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:RBReconfig:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:TCReconfig:FBINdicator? , and CALL:STATus:SETup[:PCReconfig]:FBINdicator? .
  • The UTRA FDD Speech Echo Loopback Delay value was previously fixed at 0.5 seconds. This setting determines the amount of time that speech frames received on the uplink are delayed before being retransmitted on the downlink. A new parameter has been added with a default value of 0.5 seconds to maintain backwards compatibility. See CALL:SERVice:AMR:SPEech:ECHO:LOOPback:DELay .
  • E-TFCI recording has been enhanced allowing you to control whether all E-DPDCH subframes are recorded, or only those that pass CRC checks. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See CALL:HSUPa:ETFCi:RECord:BEHavior .

Measurements

  • Enhanced fast device tune (FDT) - Supports 10ms measurement step size in addition to the 20ms step size previously available in the E1999A-201 feature option (see SETup:CFDTune:POWer:STEP:LENGth ). An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • Enhancements to the UE reported measurements - Previously, the CPICH Ec/No and CPICH RSCP UE reported values were displayed in the index value. With this release you can get more intuitive values in dB or dBm.

Other Features

  • The test set now provides summary information for the user calibrations that have been performed, along with a readout of the test set's current operating temperature. See User Calibration Summary .

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A.12.11 Release - November 2007

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Known Issues

  • The Block Error Ratio (BLER) measurement does not operate correctly when the Channel Type is set to 12.2k RMC + HSPA. The measurement always reports an error ratio of 100% with this channel type. With 12.2k RMC + HSPA, the BLER measurement uses RLC Transparent Mode (TM) and would require the UE Loopback Type to be set to Type 2 in order to loop back data and CRC bits. However, UE Loopback Type is fixed to Type 1 for this configuration, as required by TS 34.109 (refer to section 5.3.1 in TS 34.109, rev 7.2.0). This means that the BLER measurement cannot work correctly. In a subsequent release of the E1963A, the BLER measurement will not be supported for the 12.2k RMC + HSPA Channel Type.

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A.11.08 Release - July 2007

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963_A11_E6703_D02_T03_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

  • Inner Loop Power measurement enhancements:
    • Improved UE range time and new UE Range Time settings allow the Inner Loop Power measurement to execute more quickly.
    • The Inner Loop Power measurement can now measure power across a 30 dB dynamic range before needing to re-range (previously re-ranging was required every 13 dB). This allows the measurement to execute more quickly. Note, this improvement has specific Hardware Requirements .
  • Peak EVM, IQ Gain Imbalance and IQ Phase Imbalance results are now available from the Waveform Quality measurement, via GPIB command only (see Waveform Quality Measurement Description ).
  • New Dynamic Power Analysis 34.121 5.7A Measurement Configuration setting helps you quickly configure the measurement to perform 3GPP TS 34.121 5.7A from the front panel. This setting should be used in conjunction with the existing 34.121 Preset Call Configurations .

  • New Waveform Quality 34.121 5.13.1A Measurement Configurations help you quickly configure the measurement to perform 3GPP TS 34.121 5.13.1A from the front panel. These settings should be used in conjunction with the existing 34.121 Preset Call Configurations .

  • The Fast Device Tune measurement now supports Band VII (the range of the MS TX Frequency Step Values now includes 2502.4 to 2567.6 MHz, and the range of the MS RX Frequency Step Values now includes 2622.4 to 2687.6 MHz). See Fast Device Tune Measurement Description . Note, the band VII functionality has specific Hardware Requirements . An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • The PRACH Transmit On/Off Power measurement's "Post Burst Off Power" range has been improved for test sets with the required hardware (see Hardware Requirements ). Previously the Post Burst Off Power was measured starting 100 µs after the end of the PRACH preamble burst. With the required hardware, the Post Burst Off Power is measured starting 25 µs after the end of the PRACH preamble burst. See PRACH Transmit On/Off Power Measurement Description .
  • New Extended Range Dynamic Power measurement (see Extended Range Dynamic Power Measurement Description ).

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A.10.19 Release - April 2007

This is a maintenance release to resolve known issues. The features offered in this release are identical to those offered in the A.10.17 Release - March 2007 .

A.10.17 Release - March 2007

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963_A10_E6703_D01_T01_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Receiver Measurements

Other Features

  • The downlink HARQ0 trigger is transmitted every time data is transmitted by HARQ process 0 (which is every 12 ms when on an FRC). See Trigger Output Setup .

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A.10.12 Release - December 2006

Release has been delayed.

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A.09.06 Release - July 2006

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A09_E6703C_C04_D00_T00.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

   
NOTE
The settable ranges for CALL:CHANnel and CALL:UPLink:CHANnel have changed due to changes in 3GPP TS 25.101. Some channels are no longer available. See the Requirements information at CALL:CHANnel and CALL:UPLink:CHANnel:CHANnel for more information.
   

Transmitter Measurements

  • New Fast Device Tune measurement (see Fast Device Tune Measurement Description ). An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. This feature does not require a feature license in the lab application. See www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades for more information.
  • Waveform quality, code domain and IQ tuning measurements now support HSDPA (see Waveform Quality Measurement Description , Code Domain Measurement Description and IQ Tuning Measurement Description ). When Trigger Source is set to HS-DPCCH , many new settings and results are available.
    • Trigger Source range now includes HS-DPCCH .
    • New Transient Period setting.
    • New HS-DPCCH Trigger Subframe Alignment setting.
    • New HS-DPCCH Trigger Slot Alignment setting.
    • New HS-DPCCH Trigger Subslot Alignment setting.
    • New HS-DPCCH Measurement Interval setting.
    • New Beta hs-acknack and Beta hs-cqi results.
  • Phase discontinuity measurement enhancements (see Phase Discontinuity Measurement Description ).
    • New 18 up and 18 down settings for Power Control Pattern .
    • New peak EVM results (via remote access only). Previously only rms EVM results were available.

Other Features

  • Previously, the downlink HARQ0 trigger occurred every time data was transmitted by HARQ process 0 (which is every 12 ms when on an FRC). The downlink HARQ0 trigger is now only transmitted when the HARQ0 process is aligned with the 10 ms system frame clock (which is every 60 ms when on an FRC). See Trigger Output Setup .
  • New Thermal Power Null Adjustment .

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A.08.31 Release - January 2006

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A0820_E6703C_C03_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

   
NOTE
The settable ranges for CALL:CHANnel and CALL:UPLink:CHANnel have changed. Some channels are no longer available. See the Requirements information at CALL:CHANnel and CALL:UPLink:CHANnel:CHANnel for more information.
   

Transmitter Measurements

  • Dynamic Power Analysis: Dynamic range has been expanded to 35 dB (40 dB when RRC Filter = On ).

Receiver Measurements

  • Loopback BER: Confidence Level (1-F) is now fixed to 99.8% and Bad DUT Factor (M) is fixed to 1.5. These parameters are being fixed because 3GPP TS 34.121 Table F.6.1.8 specifies an F of 0.2% and Bad DUT Factor of 1.5 for all Receiver and Performance Characteristics tests in 34.121 sections 6 and 7 (except for the fail limit for 6.5, Blocking Characteristics). Also, the 34.121 early pass/early fail formulas are based on the parameter D, which is mapped to F in 3GPP TS 34.901 Table 6-1 for only a small set of values of F and M (including F=0.2% and M=1.5).

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A.08.09 Release - August 2005

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A08_E6703C_C02_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Receiver Measurements

  • New HSDPA Block Error Ratio measurement - see HSDPA Block Error Ratio Measurement Description . (An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades for more information.)

Other Features

  • Downlink subframe 0 (HARQ 0) trigger available at rear panel (see Trigger Output Setup ). (An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades for more information.)

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A.07.25 Release - May 2005

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A07_E6703C_C02_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Transmitter Measurements

Other Features

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A.06.17 Release - January 2005

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A06_E6703C_C01_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Receiver Measurements

Other Features

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A.05.33 Release - July 2004

Resolved Known Issues

  • Assert if partial preset is initiated while call status is Releasing .
  • Assert if UE initiates a release while the call status is Setup during a UE-initiated AMR voice call.
  • Test set-originated AMR voice call is dropped by UE if user does not answer the alert quickly enough.
  • Incorrect downlink CRC and DTCH block size configuration when Uplink DTCH RMC CRC Presence is set to Used for Data .
  • Test set does not send Open UE Test Loop message during release of RB test mode call.
  • Hard handover fails due to missing IE (related to Timing Indication) in Phys Chan Reconfig message.
  • AMR voice call origination fails due to incorrect extraction of security algorithm capability parameters.

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A.05.28 Release - April 2004

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A0528_E6703B_B0129_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1963A A.05.20, E6703B B.01.20 - April 2004

Call Processing

Resolved Known Issues

  • Handoff and current UARFCNs not updated on failed handoff.

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A.05.16 Release - January 2004

The functionality present in the A.05.16 release is identical to that in the A.05.14 release (see A.05.14 Release - January 2004 and GPIB Changes for E1963A A.05, E6703B B.01 - December 2003 ).

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A.05.14 Release - January 2004

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A05_E6703B_B01_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1963A A.05, E6703B B.01 - December 2003

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Receiver Measurements

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A.04.10 Release - July 2003

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A04_E6703A_A02_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Other Features

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A.03.20 Release - February 2003

The reference guide for this release is available at the following web location. Note, this is a 12.9 MB .pdf file.

http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/1000-1864.pdf

This firmware release provides you with improved call processing from the previous release, three new measurements (Inner Loop Power, PRACH Transmit On/Off Power, and IQ Tuning), and enhancements to the Spectrum Emission Mask and Occupied Bandwidth measurements. The newly added Spectrum Monitor instrument provides additional transmitter measurement functionality. Also, save/recall function is available in this release. By working with the E1968A test application, this revision allows to make an inter-system handoff from W-CDMA to GSM.

Call Processing

Transmitter Measurements

Other Features

  • Save/Recall

    This function allows you to store the test set's current settings to a register and retrieve them later, eliminating the task of reconfiguring the test set. See Save and Recall Registers .

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A.02.35 Release - August 2002

This firmware release provides you with improved call processing from the previous release.

Call Processing

Measurements

  • Timing error is now returned in chips instead of seconds for the Waveform Quality and Code Domain measurements.

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A.02.20 Release - May 2002

The reference guide for this release is available at the following web location. Note, this is an 8.8 MB .pdf file.

http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/1000-1844.pdf

This firmware release provides you with call processing, including base station originate, base station release, and closed loop power control, an additional reference measurement channel, 64k RMC, three new measurements, Spectrum Emission Mask, Occupied Bandwidth, and Code Domain Power, and enhancements to the Waveform Quality and Channel Power measurements. Also, a GPIB help mode exists in this firmware. This revision works with the E1985A fast switching test application.

Call Processing

Measurements

Other

  • Help Mode

    This release enables the HELP key on the test set's front panel. When in help mode, the test set provides GPIB syntax assistance. For more information, refer to Help Mode .

  • This release gives you the first revision of the W-CDMA Test Application that can be used with the E1985A GSM_136/AMPS_GPRS fast switching test application. This release when used with the E1985A GSM_AMPS/136_GPRS_WCDMA fast switching test application allows you to switch quickly between GSM, AMPS/136, GPRS, and W-CDMA formats.

    When writing program code for use with the E1985A, there are several parameters which require the format identifier, :WCDMA, to be appended. For details on these commands, refer to the user documentation for the GSM_AMPS/136_GPRS_WCDMA fast switching test application.

  • Measurements have to be recalibrated when you switch to the E1963A W-CDMA Test Application from the E1962B CDMA2000 Test Application of release revisions B.05 or lower.

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A.01.08 Release - November 2001 (Initial Test Application Release)

The reference guide for this release is available at the following web location. Note, this is a 6.5 MB .pdf file.

http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/1000-1802.pdf

Call Processing

This release of the W-CDMA test application does not provide call processing. Therefore, call processing operations, such as base station origination (paging) and registration, are not available to establish a connection between the test set and the user equipment (UE).

A frequency division duplex (FDD) test mode is available to provide a downlink signal that a properly configured UE can synchronize to in order to transmit a corresponding uplink signal. The test set can then demodulate the uplink signal and make waveform quality and loopback bit error ratio measurements. See FDD Test Operating Mode for a description of this feature.

Transmitter Measurements

  • Thermal Power. This is an unfiltered, broad-banded power measurement that uses a thermal detector to measure the total power of all signals present at the test set's RF IN/OUT connector down to -10 dBm. Because of its high accuracy, this is the preferred power measurement for the Maximum Output Power test (3GPP TS 34.121, section 5.2, v3.2.0) to verify that the UE is transmitting at the correct level when transmitting at its highest output level. See Thermal Power Measurement Description .
  • Channel Power. This is a filtered power measurement that can be used to measure high level and low level signals within a 3.84 MHz bandwidth. This measurement is used in the Transmit Off Power test (3GPP TS 34.121, section 5.5.1, v3.2.0). It can also be used for calibrating mobile TX power. These tests require specific power levels to be measured within the 3.84 MHz channel bandwidth. See Channel Power Measurement Description .
  • Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio. Power is measured within a 3.84 MHz bandwidth at +/-5 MHz and +/-10 MHz offsets from the center frequency. The measurement results can be displayed in either numeric and graphical formats. This measurement is defined in 3GPP TS 34.121, section 5.10, v3.2.0, Adjacent Channel Leakage Power Ratio (ACLR) , which verifies that the mobile station is not transmitting too much power outside of its 3.84 MHz channel bandwidth, which could interfere with other frequency channels. See Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) Measurement Description .
  • Waveform Quality. This measurement returns the composite error vector magnitude (EVM), frequency error, origin offset, phase error, and magnitude error of the received signal. This measurement is used for the Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) test in 3GPP TS 34.121, section 5.13.1, and for the Frequency Error test in 3GPP TS 34.121, section 5.3, v3.2.0. These measurements verify the accuracy of the transmitter's modulation circuitry and RF source. For this FDD test mode release, this measurement can only be performed on a 12.2 kbps reference measurement channel (RMC) that is synchronized to the downlink signal from the test set. See Waveform Quality Measurement Description .

Receiver Measurements

  • Loopback bit error ratio (BER). This measurement uses the UE in loopback mode 1 to test the sensitivity of its receiver. The receiver sensitivity test is described in 3GPP TS 34.121, section 6.2, v3.2.0, Reference Sensitivity Level . When using the test set's FDD Test operating mode, the user must configure the UE in the loopback mode 1 to perform this measurement; no provision is made to send messages over the downlink signal to the UE to configure it. See Loopback Bit Error Ratio (BER) Measurement Description .

Other Features

Base Station Emulation in FDD Test Operating Mode

Base station emulation for this release is limited to sending a configurable downlink signal that the UE can synchronize to in order to transmit a corresponding uplink signal. The downlink does not send any commands to the UE to configure it for testing. All control of the UE must be provided by the user.

Downlink signal parameters that can be configured include the following settings:

  • Downlink channel codes:
    • Primary Scrambling Code
    • PICH Channelization Code
    • DPCH 12.2 RMC Channelization Code
  • Downlink channel levels:
    • FDD Test CPICH Level
    • FDD Test P-CCPCH/SCH Level
    • FDD Test PICH Level
    • FDD Test DPCH Level
  • Orthogonal Channel Noise Simulator - OCNS is automatically turned on and off, and the level set, as the downlink channel levels are changed.
  • Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)
  • Downlink Transport Format Combination Indicator (TFCI)
  • Downlink channel
  • Downlink DTCH data type
  • Downlink PICH data pattern

Power control bit patterns can also be configured on the downlink. This allows you to vary the value being sent for the uplink closed loop power control data, and to send step up and step down power control sequences.

CW Operating Mode

CW operating mode provides an unmodulated RF generator signal with an adjustable level from -10 dBm to -127 dBm.

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