Specifications

Introduction

The recent 1999 CDMA Americas Congress marked the milestone of

a decade of CDMA. Among the items highlighted were the exciting

opportunities for CDMA in the new millennium. With the evolution

toward 3G standards, CDMA is providing an even more exciting

opportunity. CDMA leads the industry in providing the highest quality

voice services and it is also leading the way in delivering wireless data

services. Used by nearly 42 million worldwide, CDMA is the predominant

global technology of choice for third generation (3G) services and

devices.

Through its introduction of the ESG Option 201 real-time cdma2000

personality, Agilent Technologies is providing a significant advantage

in signal generation for customers developing mobile receivers for the

CDMA marketplace. The ESG Option 201 personality can be used to

provide fully coded, multi-channel stimulus signals supporting both the

IS-95 and IS-2000 (release 0) CDMA standards. These signals can be

used to test receiver performance (frame error rates) and low-level

protocol handling for CDMA products. Features include:

a) Fully coded IS-95 signal package including pilot, sync, paging, and

traffic channels.

b) Fully coded IS-2000 signals including fundamental and supplemental

channels at rates up to 307.2 kbps.

c) Full control of the paging message stream (overhead and signaling

messages).

This product note discusses features, setup, and applications for

Agilent Technologies’ ESG Option 201 Real-time cdma2000 personality.

It is intended to provide R&D designers working on DSPs, ASICs, and

other firmware components of IS-95 and IS-2000 mobile phones with

techniques for testing and troubleshooting their receiver designs. The

ESG Option 201 also provides designers with the ability to perform RF

design characterization, and will provide manufacturing engineers with

a suitable means of RF functional testing.

This product note assumes a working knowledge of CDMA and/or IS-2000.

For supplemental information on CDMA and receiver measurements,

please refer to the Recommended Reading section on page 25. Through-

out the remainder of this document references are made to IS-2000;

unless otherwise noted, the reader may assume that these references

apply to IS-95 as well as IS-2000.

1. CDG (CDMA Development Group), www.cdg.org,

CDMA Moves Into The New Millennium; Leading Wireless Companies Highlight CDMA Milestones and

Future at the CDMA Americas Congress

, San Francisco, CA, November 30, 1999.

2. cdma2000, also referred to as the IS-2000 standard, refers to the 3

generation migration of cdmaOne, which incorporates backward compatibility with

the IS-95 standard.