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Characterization of OTA performance is going to be a challenge as wireless communications move towards higher frequency ranges. ART-Fi decided to expand their precision engineering to tackle that challenge, together with their partner WavePro, by releasing a cutting-edge compact range that can be used to characterize the world’s latest technologies, up to 300 GHz.

Anritsu Co. expands its field test portfolio with the introduction of PIM Hunter,™ a passive intermodulation test probe that helps field technicians more quickly discover the precise location of external PIM sources at cell sites. Designed for use with Anritsu’s PIM Master,™ Spectrum Master™ and BTS Master™ handheld analyzers, the PIM Hunter test probe enables field professionals to use traditional interference hunting techniques to accurately locate external PIM sources for optimum wireless network performance.

Microsemi Corp. announced the availability of a series of new plastic packaged PIN diode control products, leveraging the company's 50-year history supplying PIN diode products for challenging RF power, small-signal switching and receiver power limiting functions. The new devices are cost competitive and provide higher RF functionality, helping defense, aerospace and medical customers reduce BOM costs with low risk and little sacrifice to performance.

Bluetest has introduced the RTS25 chamber that is optimized for measurements on the 2.4 and 5 GHz ISM bands.

ADI’s new RF-MEMS switch technology is enabling faster, smaller, lower power, more reliable instrumentation equipment by resolving multiple performance limitations commonly attributed to relays, whose origins date to the earliest days of the electric telegraph.

The new R&S RT-ZP1X passive 1:1 probe from Rohde & Schwarz broadens the application range of its R&S RTO and R&S RTE series oscilloscopes. Both the probe and the oscilloscopes' front-end are extremely low noise, making this combination ideal for measuring the smallest of signals down to 1 mV/div, e.g., for power integrity measurements on integrated circuits and components.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced it will demonstrate an innovative and diverse range of electronic design, verification and test solutions at electronica 2016 (www.electronica.de), Hall A1, Booth 506, Munich, Nov. 8-11.

Anritsu Co. introduced new software for its Radio Communications Analyzer MT8821C that creates the industry’s first test solution that supports evaluation of 4x4 MIMO 256 QAM RF Rx performance for all DL 3CC CA band combinations with no restrictions on frequency and signal bandwidth combinations. The new software provides wireless chipset and UE manufacturers, as well as mobile operators with a solution to conduct efficient, highly accurate carrier acceptance tests to ensure performance.

Anritsu Co. announces that is has earned the 2016 Global Product Line Strategy Award—Manufacturing Test Software for IoT from Frost & Sullivan. In making the announcement, Frost & Sullivan stated that newly released software packages from Anritsu uniquely position the company’s Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870A as an all-in-one instrument with unmatched solutions that support a wide range of wireless technologies to conduct high-volume production tests on IoT devices.