Rohde & Schwarz, a supplier of electronics solutions in a variety of industries, has released the new R&S BTC broadcast test center, a high-end test platform that offers a complete testing environment for nearly all audio, video and multimedia applications.
Designed to assist chipset and receiver manufacturers with the development, certification and quality assurance of products, the R&S BTC “comes with a comprehensive range of analysis features and supports all common digital and analog standards for cable, satellite and terrestrial television, as well as digital and analog audio broadcasting standards and second-generation DVB standards such as DVB-T2, DVB-C2, DVB-S2 and their interfaces,” the company said.
The new R&S BTC broadcast test center features up to eight arbitrary waveform generators (AWG) per RF path for equipment testing under realistic and complex interference conditions, as well as two independent real-time signal paths, each with a modulation bandwidth of 160 MHz. Digital I/Q data interfaces and flexible I/Q data input/output for ideal test and design capabilities and a high resolution, 8.4-inch touchscreen display and graphical user interface with hierarchical function blocks for ease of use are also included.
