E8870 Fixed WiMAX Wireless Library

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The IEEE 802.16-2004 standard, often generally referred to as WiMAX, specifies air interfaces for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems. The standard is expected to energize the BWA industry and open many opportunities to deploy systems in applications that were previously cost-prohibitive. WiMAX enables multiple services in a wireless metropolitan area network, such as wireless backhaul for telecommunications, high-bandwidth/high-reliability remote connectivity, and E1/T1 replacements for small- and medium-size businesses, and residential wireless DSL for broadband Internet at home. E8870 Fixed WiMax Wireless Library A WiMAX Design Library for System-Level RF/DSP Co-design, Microwave Journal, November 2005. Agilent WiMAX Tool Kit CD Ordering and Information Request Form - resource CD from Agilent Technologies Related Product: E8869 Mobile WiMax Wireless Library Related Products: Wireless Libraries Localized Versions   Japan   Korea   Taiwan   China

E8870 Fixed WiMAX Wireless Library

Agilent's 802.16d Fixed WiMAX wireless library provides signal processing models and preconfigured simulation setups for Agilent's Advanced Design System EDA software. Agilent's Fixed WiMAX library provides signal sources and receivers to facilitate simulation of fully coded systems. The models and simulation test benches can be used as an analysis framework for simulation and verification of baseband algorithms, digital baseband/IF systems, and verification RF circuitry used in point-point and point-multi point fixed BWA designs.

Agilent's 802.16d Fixed WiMAX wireless library also can be imported into Agilent's RF Design Environment (RFDE), allowing RFIC designers to access Mobile WiMAX test benches within the Cadence Virtuoso Custom IC platform through links developed as one result of the ongoing alliance between Agilent and Cadence.

Moreover, this library provides transmitter measurements (such as EVM, CCDF and etc) and receiver measurements (such as receiver sensitivity, BER and etc).

Features

• Configure TDD/FDD frames for downlink and uplink
• Flexible configuration of bursts and MAC PDUs
• FCH , DL-MAP, UL-MAP, DCD and UCD automatically generated in downlink
• Standards-based, raw, or fully coded data
• Channel coding: CC (Convolutional coding) and RS (Reed-Solomon coding)
• CC and RS decoding with soft decision (with channel state information - CSI)
• SUI (Stanford University Interim) channel model

Fixed wireless access propagation Channel model is included. The multi-path fading is modeled as tapped-delay line representing 6 SUI (Stanford University Interim) channel models.

Propagation Channel Model for Fixed WiMax Applications

Test Benches

Transmitter Measurements

The following transmitter measurements are performed for both Uplink and Downlink subframes:

• EVM, Constellation
• CCDF, Spectrum Mask, Waveform
• Spectral Flatness

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Downlink Transmitter Spectral Flatness Measurement

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Downlink Transmitter Spectral Flatness Display

Receiver Measurements

The following receiver measurements are performed for both Uplink and Downlink subframes:

• Receiver Sensitivity
• BER and PER in AWGN
• BER and PER in Fading Channel
• Adjacent Channel Rejection

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Downlink Transmitter BER and PER Measurement in AWGN Channel

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Downlink Transmitter BER and PER Measurement Display

Required ADS Modules

• E8870 Fixed WiMax Wireless Library

And

• Design Environment (E8900)
• Data Display (E8901)
• Agilent Ptolemy Simulator (E8823)

Or

• Agilent Communications Systems Designer Suites (E8850, E8851, E8852)

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