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Spirent Vertex Channel Emulator
The Vertex Channel Emulator is an advanced platform that replicates the comprehensive noise and spatial conditions of even the most complex wireless channels. Its cutting edge capabilities enable users to emulate a real-world RF environment in the lab, making it possible to isolate and identify performance issues early in the development cycle.
Category:
RF- / Wi-Fi Channel Emulation
Manufacturer: Spirent Communications
The Vertex Channel Emulator is an advanced platform that replicates the comprehensive noise and spatial conditions of even the most complex wireless channels. Its cutting edge capabilities enable users to emulate a real-world RF environment in the lab, making it possible to isolate and identify performance issues early in the development cycle.
Vertex is backed by a long history of channel emulation leadership and industry-recognized expertise. Incorporating a modular RF front end with a powerful signal processing core, the Vertex Channel Emulator achieves an unprecedented level of scalability and flexibility, enabling it to efficiently address a broad range of applications from low channel density like SISO or 2x2 MIMO to high channel density required for 5G scenarios, such as MIMO beamforming, MIMO OTA, carrier aggregation, and massive MIMO.
Easy to set up and operate, Vertex includes Spirent’s industry-recognized user-friendly graphical user interface that allows measurements to be set up and performed quickly and accurately.
The world's most scalable channel emulation platform, Spirent's Vertex Channel Emulator is an advanced test and measurement system that accurately simulates the complex effects of signal fading on wireless transmissions.
The system enables the test and evaluation of a broad range of applications with a variety of channel densities, from basic applications like 2-channel SISO to complex, high channel density applications like MIMO OTA, MIMO beamforming and carrier aggregation needed for 5G test scenarios.
The Vertex platform combines modularity, scalability and ease-of-use into a powerful test and measurement solution that addresses the needs of a constantly evolving wireless market.
Applications
- Scalable from basic SISO to high channel density applications
- MIMO beamforming
- MIMO OTA
- Carrier aggregation
- Massive MIMO
- Device conformance and performance verification
- Virtual drive testing
- Mesh networks
- Satellite and aeronautical applications
Technical Specifications
| RF configuration | • With bidirectional module: from SISO up to 8x8 MIMO with bidirectional fading • With unidirectional module: up to 2x32 and dual 2x16 • Multiple instruments: Two instruments can be fully integrated into a system; additional instruments can be synchronized for more complex connection setups. |
| RF inputs | Up to 16 |
| RF outputs | Up to 32 |
| Digital channels | Up to 256 (40MHz or 100MHz bandwidth); up to 64 (200MHz bandwidth) |
| Bandwidth | 40MHz, 100MHz, 200MHz, 400MHz |
| Frequency range | 30MHz to 5925MHz |
| RF input | Input level range: -50 to +15dBm Level resolution: 0.1dB Damage level: +33dBm (Peak) |
| RF output level | Min/max range: -110 to -10dBm (RMS) Resolution: 0.1dB |
| Input and output power meters |
Modes: • Continuous • RF burst-triggering for gated input signals |
| Residual EVM | -40dB typical |
| Residual noise | Better than -165dBm/Hz at a set output level of -45dBm |
| RF port VSWR | 1.5:1 |
| IndepeDelayndent paths | Up to 24 paths per digital channel |
| Delay | 0 to 4000μs, 0.1ns resolution; Up to 1s (future release) |
| Relative path loss | 0 to 40dB |
| Dynamic channel parameters | • Sliding delay (moving propagation) • Birth-death delay • 3GPP High-Speed Train (HST) profiles log normal (shadow fading) |
