Rohde and Schwarz Gmbh & Co. Kg

Gottfried Holzmann

Werner Mittermaier

Kurt Schmidt

Martin Simon

Martin Oetjen

Martin Roth

Albert Moser

Ralf Plaumann

Thomas Lutz

Matthias Jelen

Rolf Lorenzen

Anton Steinegger

Thomas Maucksch

Andreas Schiessl

Moritz Harteneck

Jens Volkmann

Guido Apenburg

Heino Gerlach

Peter Wolanin

Henry Gropp

Rudolf Schindlmeier

Waldemar Henrich

Peter Ludwig

Heinrich Bichl

Sven Gollon

Wilfried Dilling

Matthias Lutz

Roland Mahr

Mattias Jelen

Frank Korber

Klaus Neugebauer

Hermann Groll

A port multiplier for extending ports of a radio communication test instrument comprises an input for receiving at least one input signal, a power supply unit, a control logic, and at least one output for outputting a processed signal. The port multiplier is configured to split the at least one input signal into its different components such that a radio signal component of the input signal is forwarded to the at least one output. A power signal component of the input signal is forwarded to the power supply unit. Further, a control signal component of the input signal is forwarded to the control logic. Moreover, a radio communication test system for testing a device under test is described.

Port multiplier and radio communication test system

A coupler, in particular a resistive coupler, wherein all ports are at least partially or completely arranged in or at a connector. The coupler comprises resistors which are adapted to sum and/or divide the incoming and/or outgoing signal. The resistors are arranged at or in the connector. A sum port and/or at least two dividing ports are arranged on a substrate.

Wideband coupler

A mobile radio testing device for protocol testing of a device under test is provided. The mobile radio testing device comprises a downlink path and an uplink path, wherein the uplink path comprises at least a first analysis mode and a second analysis mode. In this context, the mobile radio testing device includes a demodulation processing unit for analyzing signals from the device under test in the first analysis mode. In addition, the second analysis mode analyzes signals from the device under test without using the demodulation processing unit.

Mobile radio testing device and method for protocol testing

The present invention provides a frontend module for a modular configuration of a frontend. Each of the frontend modules is configured to achieve a configuration for combining multiple frontends. In particular, multiple signals relating to a relative small frequency range may be combined together to achieve a broadband test signal. For this purpose, radio frequency interfaces are provided in the frontend module for exchanging/distributing radio-frequency signals between the individual frontend modules.

Frontend module and frontend for a radio frequency test device, and method for operating a frontend module

A modular RF measuring device has a motherboard arranged centrally within the device so as to define a front side and a rear side, the front side and the rear side each comprising module interfaces.

Modular device architecture

A radio frequency measuring device module having a first sub-module, a second sub-module, and a third sub-module. The radio frequency measuring device module has a modular structure. The sub-modules are interchangeably mounted on each other. Further, a radio frequency measuring device is described.

Radio frequency measuring device module and radio frequency measuring device

Testing instruments, including mobile radio testers, wireless device testers, protocol testers and conformance and preconformance testers and systems

Techniques related to signal processing include setting up a first operation mode or a second operation mode. In the first operation mode: providing a first analog signal to a first A/D converter by a first switch and a second analog signal to a second A/D by second switch, and converting the first analog signal to a first digital signal by the first A/D and the second analog signal to a second digital signal by the second A/D. In the second operation mode: demodulating a third analog signal to an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal by an I-Q-demodulator, providing the in-phase signal to the first A/D by the first switch, providing the quadrature signal to a second A/D by second switch, converting the in-phase signal to a third digital signal by the first A/D, and converting the quadrature signal to a fourth digital signal by the second A/D.

Signal receiving apparatus and signal receiving method, signal generating apparatus and signal generating method

A switch-extender is connected to a measurement system and to several DUTs. It splits a signal from the measurement system into several signals so that the several DUTs receive the same signal and can therefore be tested in parallel. The switch-extender further includes at least one amplifier and/or at least one attenuator for every output port so that every signal has the same signal level no matter what the individual attenuation factor of the signal connectors or of the internal printed circuit board is. Furthermore a method for calibrating the measurement system as well as for the switch-extender and the signal connectors describes how to obtain the needed calibration values both for the downlink path and for the uplink path without changing the signal connector.

Switch-extender and a method for calibrating

A testing front end module for testing a plurality of devices under test (DUT) includes a testing signal interface, a vector signal generator (VSG) coupled to the testing signal interface and configured to generate testing signals upon reception of testing routine signals from a remote controller via the testing signal interface, a vector signal analyzer (VSA) coupled to the testing signal interface and configured to receive testing response signals from a plurality of DUTs and to transmit the received testing response signals to the remote controller via the testing signal interface, a multiplexer/demultiplexer (MUX/DEMUX) coupled to the VSG and the VSA, the MUX/DEMUX being configured to multiplex the received testing response signals and to demultiplex the generated testing signals, and a test device interface coupled to the MUX/DEMUX and configured to couple the testing front end module to the plurality of DUTs.

Testing front end modules, testing methods and modular testing systems for testing electronic equipment

A measuring device comprises at least one port, an external cable connected to the at least one port, a transmitter connected to the at least one port through a switch, a receiver connected to the at least one port through the switch and a reference path connecting the transmitter with the receiver through the switch. The cable is connected to calibration elements, e.g., short and open. The switch alternately switch in a manner that in a first state the transmitter and the receiver are connected to the at least one port and that in a second state the transmitter and the receiver are connected via the reference path.

Method for calibrating a cable and respective measuring device

The invention relates to an electronic assembly comprising a plurality of electronic component groups and a cooling device for cooling the electronic component groups. The cooling device provides a cooling-power distributor. A cooling power of the cooling device can be individually controlled by the cooling-power distributor for every component group. Furthermore, the assembly provides temperature-registering means for every component group for registering a temperature of every component group, and a load-determining device for determining a parameter for every component group which describes the load experienced by a component group on the basis of the temperature registered for this component group. A control unit controls the cooling-power distributor on the basis of the parameters determined for the component groups.

Electronic assembly with cooling device

A housing for electronic components comprising at least one hardware module and a frame. The hardware module comprises a mounting element, wherein the frame connects the at least one hardware module through the mounting element mechanically stable to the housing. A labeling element is attached to the mounting element and the housing has at least one viewing opening so that at least one part of the labeling element can be seen from the outside of the housing.

Labeling of hardware modules

An antenna coupler for testing a mobile-radio device with a coupling element formed in a flat manner by strip conductors on a printed-circuit board and with a retaining device formed on a first side of the printed-circuit board for positioning a mobile-radio device in the vicinity of the coupling element. On the first side of the printed-circuit board, at least one slit structure is introduced into an ground metallization formed there. For feeding the slit structure serving as the coupling element, at least one stripline formed on the second side facing away from it forms a microstripline with the ground metallization remaining between the slit structure of the first side.

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Zorneding, Germany

Gottfried Holzmann