Testing Phased-Array Antennas for NTN Applications
Testing, evaluating, and qualifying phased-array antennas bring new challenges to designers and developers in characterization, calibration, and production test.
The cloud is expanding into space, and phased-array antennas (PAAs) are critical enablers of the convergence between non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) and terrestrial networks. As NTN advances, the industry is developing advanced PAAs to enable seamless connectivity between terrestrial and NTN components, which are complex in function and circuitry as well as physically large and heavy. They introduce new challenges in characterization, calibration, and production testing.
Such challenges can be addressed from test methodology, measurement platform, test algorithms, product design, test equipment design, and production efficiency and reliability perspectives. In this podcast, we talk to Giorgia Zucchelli, Product Manager for RF and Mixed-Signal at MathWorks, about this formidable space.
SHOW NOTES
1:02 – Commercialization of Pace
1:39 – Importance of Satellites
5:22 – Challenges for Developing Non-Terrestrial Network Systems
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.
