Verifying Antenna-in-Package Design Performance in 5G and Satellite Systems

Aug. 16, 2021

Keysight Solutions selected by TMYTEK to verify Antenna-in-Package designs to enable the Taiwan-based mmWave startup to accelerate development of radio units.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Keysight Technologies

The mmWave spectrum is being used to deploy 5G services requiring wider bandwidths to support the high data transfer volume required while also exhibiting low latencies. With the goal of accurately verifying mmWave designs for 5G new radio (NR) and satellite applications, TMYTEK, a Taiwan-based mmWave startup, has selected Keysight's development tools to verify antenna-in-package (AiP) designs used in 5G and satellite systems.

“We’re pleased to support TMYTEK XBeam with test solutions that ensure interoperability between radio units and distributed units which are part of a multi-vendor radio access network that uses open standard specifications,” said Jeffrey Chen, general manager of greater China wireless solutions engineering at Keysight Technologies. “Keysight’s long-standing expertise and solution portfolio for mmWave technology for both 5G NR and satellite markets makes Keysight an ideal partner to TMYTEK.”

Keysight’s Open RAN Studio validates a radio unit (O-RU), using its software and hardware to construct, play, capture, and measure O-RAN traffic. Open RAN Studio can leverage Keysight’s signal-generation and analysis platforms, PathWave Signal Generation (Signal Studio), and Vector Signal Analysis (89600 VSA) software. This enables TMYTEK to access cross-domain and multichannel O-RAN protocol measurements for both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL).

“Keysight offers TMYTEK the measurement certainty and performance in test solutions we need to confidently develop AiP technology that meets the demands of both 5G and satellite markets,” said Su-Wei Chang, founder and president of TMYTEK. “Many 5G designs for mmWave spectrum deployment use AiP technology to reduce the size and cost of wireless systems as well as improve radio frequency (RF) performance.”

Keysight’s VXG Microwave Signal Generator offers high output power and ultra-low phase noise, and their UXA Signal Analyzer supports wide analysis bandwidth and dynamic range, critical to both mmWave 5G and satellite applications.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

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.