Testing Multi-Radio Devices in Manufacturing

Single devices with multiple radios and wireless standards pose a significant challenge for manufacturing testing. Ordinarily, each standard is tested one after another, and test times and costs balloon upward. The challenge for you is to test multiple radios and standards in the time it now takes you to test one or two, and that's precisely what LitePoint's IQ2010 is designed to do.

Before the IQ2010, to test multi-radio devices, most manufacturers relied on separate lines of single-radio test systems. Multi-radio devices are moved from line to line, and inserted again and again. If one is testing four radios and their underlying standards, it may require four lines and four different test systems. So, equipment cost is high, and insertion-damage risk compounds that cost.

LitePoint's IQ2010 Multicom Tester

With LitePoint's IQ2010, a single system, you can test six different radios and standards. The standard model comes ready to test four popular radios and standards – WiFi, GPS, FM and Bluetooth. But, as needs dictate, you can add WiMAX and NFC, in the field, via a software licensing key.

LitePoint's IQ2010 Multicom Test System attacks two key manufacturing-test obstacles: test time and equipment costs. Your test time is affected by the length of individual tests, and by having to do them in a series. The IQ2010 provides you with some test concurrency, which shortens overall test time, and a technology called "sequence-based testing" or SBT, which markedly reduces the number of communications transactions between your tester and device-under-test (DUT). These two features can reduce test time and test cost dramatically.  2010 demo.  And, by having a single system that does the work of four systems, you save on equipment costs.