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Keysight Technologies is releasing a new Digital Wideband Transceiver test solution, which reports radio frequency (RF) performance characteristics of mixed-digital RF devices. The company announced the new offering on April 12. 

The Digital Wideband Transceiver test solution compares digital and RF signals between device input and output and measures the transmitter and receiver responses independent from other test instrumentation. Keysight said this meets the need for a new measurement methodology to measure digital signals on antennas for defense radars and satellite communications. The company said this product can reduce weeks of in-house measurement and data analysis effort to a few minutes.

“Digital signals are highly integrated into the RF front-end architecture of modern antennas, which require a new measurement methodology for performance characterization,” said Dan Dunn, vice president of Keysight’s Aerospace & Defense Government Solutions. “Keysight’s digital wideband transceiver test solution enables true RF performance characterization, while speeding measurements and data analysis that ultimately accelerate the entire design cycle.”