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Agilent Technologies, the world’s premier measurement company, offers a full range of design, test, and management solutions that span the range of cellular technologies—from legacy 1G systems through 3G systems such as HSPA to 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 1xEV-DO. Agilent products cover the lifecycle from early design and development, through volume manufacturing, to network deployment and service assurance. See the Quick Guide to Agilent’s Solutions for High-Speed Cellular for an overview of all technologies and supporting product families. To learn more about related technologies consult MIMO Test and Wireless Connectivity. Greater insight. Greater confidence. Accelerate next-generation wireless.

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10 Steps to a Perfect Digital Demodulation Measurement (PN 89400-14A) 
This Product Note provides a recommended procedure for configuring the Agilent 89400 Series Vector Signal Analyzers to demodulate and characterize a wide variety of digitally-modulated signals. Follow it step-by-step to insure that no important setup parameters are missed or incorrectly...

Application Note 2000-10-01

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3GPP Long Term Evolution: System Overview, Product Development and Test Challenges 
This application note focuses on LTE and includes content on system overview, product development and test challenges of this new wireless communications technology.

Application Note 2009-09-08

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89410A and 89440A Vector Signal Analyzer Characterization of Digital Communications Channels 
Accurate measurements of channel imperfections are important to the designers and operators of digital communication systems.

Application Note 2000-11-01

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Bluetooth® RF Measurement Fundamentals (AN 1333-1) 
Bluetooth® is an open specification for a wireless personal area network. It provides limited range RF connectivity for voice and data transmissions between information appliances.

Application Note 2006-10-12

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Characterizing Digitally Modulated Signals with CCDF Curves 
This Application Note examines the main factors that affect power CCDF curves, and describes how CCDF curves are used to help design systems and components. The Agilent E4406A VSA Series Transmitter Tester is utilized in the Note.

Application Note 2000-01-01

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Comparing Power Measurements on Digitally Modulated Signals 
Measuring the power of digital CDMA signals is not as straightforward as the procedure employed when measuring their analog counterparts. While there are several ways to perform these in-channel and out-of-channel measurements, a spectrum analyzer and software-implemented power detection makes...

Application Note 2000-09-01

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Designing and Testing 3GPP W-CDMA Base Stations (Including Femtocells) - Application Note 
W-CDMA is one of several wideband digital cellular technologies competing for the third-generation (3G) cellular market.

Application Note 2010-08-01

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Designing and Testing 3GPP W-CDMA User Equipment - Application Note 
This Application Note focuses on the physical layer (layer 1) of the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode of W-CDMA.

Application Note 2003-02-21

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Designing and Testing cdma2000 Base Stations (AN 1357) 
This Application Note describes base station design and measurement issues at the physical...

Application Note 2003-02-25

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Designing and Testing cdma2000 Mobile Stations - Application Note 1358 
One of the proposals for the IMT-2000 requirements for a 3G global wireless communications system is cdma2000. This application note describes mobile station design and measurement issues at the physical layer (layer 1) that may be different between cdma2000 and cdmaOne.

Application Note 2003-01-13

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Digital Radio Theory and Measurements (AN 355A) 
This Application Note is for information only. Agilent no longer sells or supports these products.

Application Note 2005-05-20

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E-UTRA Base Station Transmit ON/OFF Power Measurement  
This application note describes the LTE TDD E-UTRA base station transmit ON/OFF power measurement-also known as the power-versus-time measurement- as provided in the N9082A LTE TDD measurement app.

Application Note 2010-06-22

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ESG (Revisions B.03.72, B.03.75 and B.03.80) Option 200 Compliance with 3GPP W-CDMA 
The ESG signal sources can be used to generate the signals to perform many of the receiver characteristics and performance requirements measurements for user equipment and base stations as defined by the 3GPP standard.

Application Note 2001-03-01

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ESG Option 201 Real-time IS-2000 Measurements 
This Product Note discusses features, setup, and applications for the Agilent ESG Option 201 Real-time cdma2000 personality. It is intended to provide R&D designers working on DSPs, ASICs, and other firmware components of IS-95 and IS-2000 mobile phones with techniques for testing and...

Application Note 2000-04-03

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HPSK Spreading for 3G (AN 1335) 
The objective of this Application Note is to provide an overview of Hybrid Phase Shift Keying (HPSK) and explain how to start making modulation quality measurements on the reverse link (uplink) of 3G spread-spectrum systems.

Application Note 2000-11-01

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Interference Testing with Handheld Spectrum Analyzers Application Note 
This application note describes the techniques and procedures for interference testing in a wireless environment using the Agilent family of N934xC/N9340B handheld spectrum analyzers.

Application Note 2011-10-11

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Investigating Bluetooth Modules: The First Step in Enabling Your Device with a Wireless Link 
This Application Note is designed for vendors or manufacturers who plan to add a wireless link to their products by installing commercially-available, pre-built Bluetooth® modules into them.

Application Note 2001-09-30

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Mastering the New Base Stations: Design and Test of ADPA and Digital Transceivers for 3G Radios. 
This paper examines adaptive digital pre-distortion (ADPD) technology and the test challenges associated with implementing ADPD amplifiers and digital radio transceivers.

Application Note 2005-02-01

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Measuring ACLR Performance in LTE Transmitters 
This note focuses on the adjacent channel leakage-power ratio (ACLR) test, a vital one for LTE.

Application Note 2010-01-07

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Measuring Complex Burst Signals with Time-Gated Spectrum Analysis (PN 8590-9) 
This Product Note describes how 8590 C/E-series Spectrum Analyzers with Option 105, Time-Gated Spectrum Analysis, can help make measurements of pulsed signals such as Time-Division Multiple-Access (TDMA) easy.

Application Note 2000-07-01

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Measuring Third-Order Intermodulation, N dB Bandwidth, and Percent AM with Built-In Functions (PN... 
This Product Note explains how to use three of the advanced functions found in all 8590 C/E/L-series Spectrum Analyzers. The three functions are: Contents Third-Order Intermodulation N dB Bandwidth Percent AM

Application Note 2000-07-01

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MIMO in LTE Operation and Measurement-Excerpts on LTE Test 
Focuses on MIMO radio operation and implementation as it applies to Long Term Evolution (LTE). MIMO (spatial multiplexing) is one of several multiple antenna techniques being implemented in LTE.

Application Note 2009-10-06

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MIMO Performance and Condition Number in LTE Test 
Topics include basic concepts of MIMO, how antenna and channel correlation affects system performance, recommendations for the best measurement tools to use when developing LTE products and systems.

Application Note 2009-10-06

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Multi-Coded Waveform Quality and Code Domain Measurements for cdma2000 
Waveform quality is the basic measure of the performance of a CDMA system transmitter. The success of a CDMA system lies in its efficient use of power, and the waveform quality measurement gives the percent of power that correlates to the ideal code.

Application Note 2001-02-14

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PDC and NADC Transmitter Measurement for Base Transceiver Stations and Mobile Stations (AN 1324) 
This Application Note describes the key RF parametric measurements necessary to characterize Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) and North American Digital Cellular (NAD) transmitters in both Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) and Mobile Stations (MS).

Application Note 2000-02-01

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