At the 2023 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), being held June 11-16 at the San Diego Convention Center, Keysight’s technical experts will highlight microwave and RF innovations to help customers accelerate 5G and pioneer 6G in booth 835. With an end-to-end portfolio of product development solutions that quickly solve design, emulation and test challenges, Keysight is enabling RF advances in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), IoT networks and massive MIMO.

Keysight will present the following demonstrations that are accelerating RF innovations:

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  • Production Open RAN and Over-the-Air (OTA) Testing for 5G Massive MIMO Radio – Demonstration of live Open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) testing.
  • 6G Vector Component Analyzer Solution – Demonstration with Nokia Bell Labs showing power amplifier measurements in the 6G sub-terahertz (sub-THz) D-Band frequency band under wideband stimulus conditions.
  • 5G–NTN Component Evaluation – Demonstration of the calibration and characterization of NTN components used with dual-polarized phased arrays for mmWave communication systems. Showcases Keysight's Phased Array Antenna Calibration Manager, a phased array antenna OTA calibration and characterization test solution.
  • Emulate Non-Terrestrial 5G – Demonstration of Keysight's NTN testbed applying timing and Doppler pre-compensation, using extended hybrid automatic repeat request and measuring device-under-test block error ratio and throughput.
  • Test 5G Amplifiers 50% Faster – Demonstration of Keysight's newly introduced ENA-X vector network analyzer that reduces the characterization of 5G component designs by up to 50 percent.
  • 5G Field Signal Analysis – Demonstration of Keysight's handheld N9953B FieldFox field test solution to demodulate OTA transmissions with a frequency coverage up to 54 GHz and a bandwidth up to 120 MHz.
  • DVB-S2X Digital Twin – Demonstration of an up-converter digital twin with the Keysight PathWave System Design to validate RF performance against real-world measurements.
  • First Pass Success for 5G / mmWave Circuit and System Design – Demonstration of PathWave ADS 2024 to accelerate mmWave MMIC module design with an integrated EM-circuit simulation.
  • Accelerate EMC and Wireless Compliance Testing of Wi-Fi 6E / 7 Devices – Demonstration of the IOT0047A IoT Regulatory Compliance Test Solution to quickly validate compliance against the latest FCC, ETSI, KCC, MIC, SRRC and DFS requirements.

Keysight's experts will explore how to accelerate RF innovation with intelligent insights through keynotes, technical lectures, presentations, workshops and tutorials including:

  • IMS Executive Forum: Emerging Technology Trends and Markets
    • Lucas Hansen
    • June 13 – 3:30-4:30 pm
    • IMS Exhibit Floor, MicroApps Theater (Booth 2447)
  • Industry Keynote: Precision DPD Measurements and Modeling of Non-Linear Amplifiers
    • Joel Dunsmore
    • June 15 – 10:00-10:30 am
    • 30DE
  • Technical Lecture: Integrated Digital Twins for Design and Test of 5G Networks
    • Rajive Bagrodia
    • June 13 – 12:00-1:20 pm
    • Ballroom Section 20A
  • Connected Future Summit: Sustainability in 6G: Driving Energy Efficiency in the Radio Access Network
    • Ben Coffin
    • June 13 – 3:40-4:10 pm
    • 33ABC

RF Bootcamp

Industry Workshops

  • Production OTA and ORAN Testing for 5G mMIMO Radio
  • mmWave Permittivity Standard Reference Material Development
  • Building a Hybrid Beamforming Digital Twin of Commercial Off the Shelf Hardware Using Available EDA Software.