Agilent Technologies is offering a link test platform for Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) interconnects, supporting reference point 3, RP3-01, reference point 1, and Ethernet Interfaces used between the baseband subsystem and radiohead subsystems within the basestation architecture.

According to the company, the emergence of standard high-speed electrical and optical, protocol-based interconnects between subsystems in basestations is driving changes in the debug and test methodologies; interoperability and robust testing are becoming increasingly important.

Also, as all subsystems may not be present during the test time, it becomes crucial to emulate missing devices to ensure proper operation of the device under test.

This test platform provides multi-channel stimulus and real-time analysis capabilities with frame decoding for extensive link layer test. These provide bit-level to frame-level functionality, hierarchical protocol display and automated tools for test-vector generation that allow users to emulate, troubleshoot and verify designs.

The N5341A basestation link test module and N5340A basestation test module extension are available at $80,000 and $30,000 respectively.

See http://www.agilent.com