Keysight Technologies has introduced its signal optimiser software, which is the industry’s first all-in-one software for calibration, signal creation and signal analysis of 5G candidate waveforms. By simplifying calibration and the critical design tasks related to 5G signal creation and analysis, the software enables research and development (R&D) engineers to create their own designs.

R&D engineers of major wireless infrastructure and device vendors are designing and evaluating 5G candidate technologies using a complex range of tools. Keysight’s new signal optimiser software solves this problem by bringing together 5G measurement science and flexible wideband system calibrations in a single software solution. This leads to a powerful solution for accelerating the deployment of 5G mobile wireless services.

While calibration is essential to make accurate measurements of 5G signals, calibrating wideband channels at RF, microwave and millimeter wave frequencies is a challenging task. However, Keysight’s software overcomes this challenge by making fully gui­d­­ed system calibrations easier. It also features task-based ins­truc­tions that simplify complex system optimisation and measurements, and allow engineers to validate their 5G designs.

Keysight’s signal optimiser software can generate and analyse a host of 5G candidate technologies, such as filter bank multicarrier and filtered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Enhanced LTE for 5G technology is also being developed along with new multiple access points on the existing LTE signals.