W1467BP Datasheet, PDF (2/6 Pages) Keysight Technologies – SystemVue Array Architect Bundle

Introduction
The W1720 Phased Array Beamforming Kit provides system architects in 5G, Radar/EW, and Satellite
communications with the essential tools to evaluate phased array and beamforming subsystems, including
RF, Digital, and Hybrid beamforming architectures. It allows system designers to consider RF nonlinear and
noise effects, Gain/Phase quantization, and Monte Carlo variations effects on total beam quality, sidelobe
levels, and effective radiated power. It also supports dynamic system-level scenarios with algorithms for
adaptive beamforming.
Because SystemVue includes MATLAB Script and supports baseband algorithm modeling in multiple
languages, such as C++, SystemC, and VHDL/Verilog, SystemVue is an ideal platform to cross-validate
phased array design information from RF, Baseband, and test & measurement teams. The W1720
beamforming kit is also compatible with SystemVue’s many reference libraries for 4G/5G, Radar, satellite,
and other modulation formats.
Who should use the W1720 Phased Array Beamforming Kit?
In typical R&D organizations, many engineering disciplines are required in phased array subsystem design.
The SystemVue Phased Array Beamforming Kit allows RF and baseband teams to use a model-based
engineering approach across disciplines. This enables them to perform early R&D validation of phased array
system architectures, components and beamforming algorithms, and then continue into hardware test.
–– System architects can integrate design information from multiple diverse teams, along with test
waveforms, to produce winning architectures and proposals
–– Algorithm and beamforming designers can include RF design information, for more realistic accuracy
–– RF system architects can directly observe the effects of their RF arrays on high-level beam-level
measurements, such as beamwidth, sidelobe levels & nulls, effective radiated power (ERP), and Gain/
Temperature (G/T)
–– System Verifiers can validate scenario-level performance under a range of conditions, as well as
automate regression suites, and link to high performance test and measurement equipment
SystemVue also provides a variety of links to RF design tools such as Keysight Advanced Design System
(ADS), providing both flexibility and consistency across a full R&D workflow.
Key applications
–– 5G beamforming and high order MIMO
–– Radar/EW systems
–– Automotive beamforming
–– Satellite/NewSpace communications terminals and payloads