BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK), a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced an extension to the TDSUWB oscilloscope software utility. The new Tek UWB WiMedia2 software extends the UWB debug and analysis capabilities of the Tektronix DSA70000, DPO70000 and TDS6000C Series — the industry’s highest multi-channel performance real time oscilloscopes — to include real-time analysis of Ultra Wideband RF and electrical signals. UWB wireless technology promises a data transfer rate beyond 1Gbps to meet the demand of data-intensive future applications. With the Tektronix UWB WiMedia2 application, engineers will be able to design, debug, and validate performance of WiMedia Ultra Wideband radios used in Certified Wireless USB, WiNet and High Speed Bluetooth consumer electronics.
UWB is a wireless radio technology that uses pulses or waveforms compressed in time, allowing frequency energy to be spread over a very wide bandwidth to very low levels enabling UWB radios to share spectrum with existing narrowband transmissions without causing undue interference. Extensions within Tek UWB WiMedia2 for the WiMedia Alliances’ UWB Common Radio Platform offer single-button tests for efficient debugging and RF compliance testing of WiMedia UWB systems including demodulation of the RF waveform and RF signal quality measurements including constellation patterns, E.V.M., Power Spectral Density, ACPR measurements and Spectrograms. The information-rich display of modulation and time domain frequency domain waveforms offers new insight into Ultra Wideband radios.
“Our UWB customers worldwide tell us it is important that test equipment be able to accommodate without modification the regulatory requirements of all regions,” said Marv LaVoie, Tektronix Fellow, Performance Scope Product Line, Tektronix. “Tek UWB WiMedia2 demodulates and measures all WiMedia Bandgroups, frequencies and Time Frequency Codes when installed on DSA70000, DPO70000, or TDS6000C oscilloscopes with sufficient real time bandwidth. Tek UWB WiMedia2 provides UWB design engineers with essential debug and compliance testing capabilities.”
Tektronix Inc.