Teradyne Inc.’s new test instrument UltraWave offers wireless customers 12 GHz source and measurement performance, with greater parallel test efficiency to ultimately lower the cost of test. Combined with the UltraFLEX test platform, UltraWave covers the entire spectrum of current and emerging connectivity and cellular technologies. According to Teradyne’s release, Broadcom is first customer to take delivery of the instrument.

“The feedback we have received from our RF customers is that they highly value the technology advancements we’ve made in wireless test with the UltraWave instrument. UltraWave builds on four generations of Teradyne’s leading microwave test solutions,” said Rod Stewart, general manager of Teradyne’s SOC business group.

“Two trends are framing the explosive wireless market,” said Kyle Klatka, product manager for Teradyne’s Wireless Business Unit. “First, rapidly increasing demand for world phones and handsets that support many wireless interfaces is multiplying the number of RF ports on a single chip. Second, manufacturers are combining multiple core functions into a single chip and creating more highly integrated devices to save space and drive down price. UltraWave can handle both trends, as manufacturers look to handle not only new wireless protocols, but also to quickly achieve multisite test to lower their cost of test.”

UltraWave’s unique universal port architecture provides 12 GHz source and measure with uniform test capability on every port. It can be configured with up to 64 universal RF ports per instrument set and multiple instruments per system, easily providing parallel octal site test without needing complex DIB circuitry for high port count devices, such as WEDGE transceivers and 802.11n applications.

UltraWave incorporates Teradyne’s patent-pending TVS synthesizer technology that provides fast settling time to 0.07dB within 1 millisecond and superior phase noise.

www.teradyne.com

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