Verify Wireless Signal Designs with RF Test Equipment
Overview
When designing wireless systems, at some point in your design cycle, you need to verify the characteristics of your signal using real hardware and RF test equipment. This design verification task can be a challenge. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how MATLAB and the Wireless Waveform Generator app can help you design and verify 5G and WLAN signals. We’ll generate standards-compliant signals in MATLAB, send them out over the air using an RF signal analyzer, acquire the signals from an RF signal generator, and analyze the quality of the transmitted signals by calculating EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) and viewing constellation diagrams.
Through discussion and product demonstrations, you will see how you can use the wireless design and instrument control products to:
- Generate a variety of WLAN and 5G signals
- Introduce impairments to the signals
- Transmit the signals over-the air using RF Signal generators from Keysight, R&S and other vendors
- Acquire IQ data from RF signal analyzers
- Calculate the EVM of an 802.11ax signal
- Plot the constellation diagram of a 256-QAM signal
About the Presenter
Eric Wetjen is a Product Marketing Manager in the Test and Measurement and IoT group at MathWorks. He has been with the MathWorks for over 11 years covering product management and product marketing for toolboxes that allow MATLAB to interface with instruments, data acquisition devices, industrial equipment and vehicle networks.
Dr. Houman Zarrinkoub is a senior product manager at MathWorks, responsible for wireless product portfolio. During his 18 years of service at MathWorks, he has served as a development manager responsible for multiple signal processing and communications software tools. Prior to MathWorks, he was a research scientist at Nortel Networks working on 3GPP projects on mobile and voice coding technologies. He has been awarded multiple patents signal processing applications. Houman is the author of the book Understanding LTE with MATLAB (Wiley, 2014). He holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Canada.
Recorded: 13 Jun 2019