Last updated: November 17, 2014
This document describes the features in the Keysight Technologies E1962B CDMA2000 Mobile Test Application releases. This document contains the original features, as well as enhancements that have been added over time.
cdma2000 is a registered certification mark of the Telecommunications Industry Association. Used under license.
If you are interested in comparing the key feature differences between the latest releases of each of the cdma2000 Test and Lab Applications, see
cdma2000 Applications Feature Comparison.
To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for your testing needs, please review the hardware requirement information at:
http://www.keysight.com/find/8960upgrades
Select the appropriate link below to view the required release.
The features offered in this release are identical to those offered in the B.21.09 Release - May 2013.
The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
This release has specific hardware requirements. Test sets with serial number<MY5210 require a HW upgrade to run this release.
To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for this release, please review the hardware requirement information at:
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This is a maintenance release. The feature offered in this release are identical to those offered in the B.20.12 Release - March 2012 .
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
This release has specific hardware requirements. Test sets with serial number<MY5210 require a HW upgrade to run this release.
To determine if a hardware upgrade is required for this release, please review the hardware requirement information at:
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable the following functionalities in a licensed test application .
Generator
Info ( F4 in Call Control 2 of 4
), then Code Channel
Parameters ( F2 in
Gen Inf o).
GPIB commands are CALL[:CELL[1]]:FCHannel[:FORWard]:QOFunction:MIDentifier
, CALL:SCHannel[:FORWard]:QOFunction:MIDentifier
and CALL[:CELL[1]]:OCNSource:QOFunction:MIDentifier
. See QOF, QOF Mask ID and
QOF Set for more information.Teleservice
is set to User
Specified ; for the mobile originated
SMS, allows you to query the current teleservice
ID that is being used. See the GPIB commands
at CALL:SMService:MTERminated:TELeservice:NUMBer
and CALL:SMService:MORiginated:TELeservice:NUMBer?
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
SMS
Support Control to describe the rejection
reason when there is a network failure. See Setting Mobile-Originated SMS Parameters
. (An additional Revision
to Current (R2C) license is required to enable
this functionality in a licensed test application)
Maximum
Number of Alternative SO and Flexible
RC/SO Negotiation Mode . See Setting Cell Parameters . (An additional Revision to Current
(R2C) license is required to enable this functionality
in a licensed test application) The following measurements are updated due to the 1x Advanced: (An additional feature license is required to enable these functionality in a licensed test application)
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Downloadable User's Guide located at:
http://www.keysight.com/find/e1962b (from the Technical Support tab choose Manuals, then "Repository of E1962B, E6702A/B/T CHM Help Files and Reference Guides")
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.17- July 2010
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.16, E6702C C.01- September 2009
PESQ is a objective method to test the speech quality of the mobile station. With a voice service option and the Voise SO mode set to PESQ, the test set supports the PESQ measurement with three measurement modes: Uplink Audio, Downlink Audio and Both. When a single measurement is done, a PESQ score ranging from -0.5 (bad) to 4.5 (Excellent) is given to rate the speech quality. The related headroom is also displayed. See Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) Measurement Description .
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.15- May 2009
The test set works at the calibration mode and will digitally generate a 1kHz sinewave that is scaled to hit the full DAC scale. This can help you to determine the gain of the analog audio input and audio output path. See Operating Mode and CALL:RTVocoder:OPERating:MODE .
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.14, E6702B B.07 - September 2008
Cellular Upper 700 Band (Band Class 7) has been added to support new frequency. See CALL:BAND and CALL:SETup:BAND:[:SELected] .
The user calibration history and the current operating temperature information can both be displayed on the front panel. See User Calibration Summary .
Constellation and rho Quality Graphics can be displayed (a new setting Graphical Waveform Quality State is added) to give a graphic view of I/Q Constellation and chip EVM of the AT.
Supports 10ms measurement step size in addition to the 20ms step size (An additional feature license is required to enable the 10ms functionality in a licensed test application) . Besides, the range of Number of Power Steps is extended up to 40. See Fast Device Tune Measurement Parameters .
Short Message Service supports both mobile terminated and mobile originated short message service for point to point or broadcast type. With flexible configuration and diverse settings this feature has powerful testing capability for SMS services testing like wireless paging teleservice, wireless messaging teleservice, voice mail notification and WAP.
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.13, E6702B B.06 - July 2007
NMT-450 Band (Band Class 5) has been revised to support new frequency. See CALL:BAND and CALL:SETup:BAND:[:SELected] .
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This is a maintenance release to resolve known issues. The features offered in this release are identical to those offered in the B.12.17 Release - March 2007 .
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The most current documentation for the cdma2000 applications is the Online User's Guide located at:
http://wireless.keysight.com/rfcomms/refdocs/cdma2k/
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.12, E6702B B.05 - December 2006
AWS Band (Band Class 15) has been added to the list of supported bands. See CALL:BAND and CALL:SETup:BAND:[:SELected] .
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Release has been delayed, please use previous release.
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A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:
http://www.home.keysight.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1962B_B11_E6702B_B04_E6702T_T00_Ref_Guide.chm
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.11.06, E6702B B.04.16 - July 2006
US PCS 1900 MHz Band (Band Class 14) has been added to the list of supported bands. See CALL:BAND and CALL:SETup:BAND:[:SELected] .
The Fast Device Tune measurement allows you to simultaneously calibrate your mobile station's transmitter (TX) output power and receiver (RX) input level across level and frequency in a single sweep (per frequency band range). See Fast Device Tune Measurement Description for details.
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A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:
http://www.home.keysight.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1962B_B10_E6702B_B0310_Ref_Guide.chm
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.10, E6702B B.03.10 - December 2005
The test set supports the Global Challenge, Unique Challenge and SSD Update authentication procedures for the purpose of confirming the identity of the mobile station. A successful outcome of the authentication process occurs only when it can be demonstrated that the mobile station and base station possess identical sets of Shared Secret Data (SSD). See Performing Authentications for details.
In real-time vocoder mode, the test set real-timely encodes the analog audio signal applied at the test set's AUDIO IN connector using the appropriate vocoder algorithm and then sends the encoded audio frames to the mobile station on the F-Traffic/F-FCH. Also, the test set can simultaneously decodes the encoded audio frames that is received on the R-Traffic/R-FCH using the appropriate vocoder algorithm and then converts to an analog signal output at the test set's AUDIO OUT connector. See Real-Time Vocoder for details.
The test set supports to test an MEID-equipped mobile station. Mobile Equipment Identifier (MEID) is a newly designed way to uniquely identify the mobile stations (MS) due to ESN exhaustion. See MEID / Enhanced PLCM for details.
The test set can emulates the base station to allows you to set the CDMA system time parameters that are sent to the mobile station. The mobile station uses them to calculate time-based data applications. The settable system time is also used in multiple test sets synchronization. See Setting CDMA System Time Parameters for details.
The base station identification (Base ID) is now a settable parameter instead of a fixed setting. See Setting Cell Parameters .
The forward link frequency range of US Cellular cell band is changed from 869 - 894 MHz to 860 - 894 MHz and the reverse link frequency range of US Cellular cell band is changed from 824 - 849 MHz to 815 to 849 MHz. See Cell Band .
The channel range of US Cellular cell band is extended to include the channels of 1024 - 1323. See RF Channel Number .
A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:
http://www.home.keysight.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1962B_E6702B_Ref_Guide.chm
Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.09.14 - April 2005
Span and resolution bandwidth can now be set independently, new Detection Method. See Resolution Bandwidth and Frequency Span and Detection Method for details.
The improvement can be seen manually or automatically (See GPIB Commands ).
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Summary of GPIB command changes for this release: GPIB Changes for E1962B B.08, E6702B B.02 - December 2004
A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:
http://www.home.keysight.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1962B_E6702B_Ref_Guide.chm
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Random
- 40% Voice Activity ,
is added to the Traffic
Data Rate selection menu.Multi-Tone
and Null
Frames , are added to the
Voice SO Mode
selection menu.R-SCH
Service Configuration Max Rate
, is added to the R-SCH Parameters
menu. See Configuring
the TDSO Supplemental Channel
Information for details.Paging
Data Rate , F-QPCH
State , F-QPCH
Relative to Pilot Level
, and F-QPCH
Data Rate settings are
moved from Cell Parameters menu
to the new Control Channel Parameters
menu. See Setting
Control Channel Parameters
.Minimum
Frame Count , is added
to the Frame Error Rate Setup
menu. See FER
Measurement Parameters
for details.FER
Requirement setting
is extended from the range
of 0.1% to 15% to the range
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The functionality present in this release is identical to that in the B.07.15 release (see B.07.15 release - December 2003 ).
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This firmware release adds the following new features for IS-95/cdma2000 system:
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This firmware release adds two new measurement results for the Channel Power measurement which was introduced at the B.01 release.
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This firmware release adds the following new features for AMPS/IS-95/cdma2000 systems:
The following sections provide descriptions of cdma2000 features introduced with the B.06 release.
The Code Domain Power measurement's pass/fail criteria have been modified to be compliant with the TIA/EIA-98-E specifications for waveform quality. The test was compliant with TIA/EIA-98-D specifications in earlier releases. See Waveform Quality/Code Domain Measurement Description
The Spectrum Monitor measurement feature has been added. This allows you to find, identify and measure transmitted signals from your mobile phone. It can also be used for spur measurements in the transmit band. See Spectrum Monitor Description .
The FER (Frame Error Rate) measurement adds three new measurement results provided to identify the types of frame errors counted by the FER measurement (see Frame Error Rate (FER) Measurement Description ). The three types of errors now identified are:
Changing the pattern to PRBS improves the ability to accurately determine the spreading rate for the SCH since code domain measurements on SO32 calls can not determine the actual spread rate of the signal when using a fixed data pattern. The PRBS setting appears to be far more useful in a wider variety of test cases and so the default for this setting has been changed to the more useful case. See CALL:SCHannel:TDSOption:DSOurce and Configuring the TDSO Supplemental Channel Information .
The mobile station's ESN can be displayed in decimal format. See CALL:MS:REPorted:ESNumber[:DECimal]? and Performing a Registration .
During registration and call setup the test set will normally issue a series of status requests to obtain the band class, max EIRP, and other capabilities from the mobile station. These requests can be disabled in order to decrease the time required to establish a connection with the mobile station. See CALL:MS:REPorted:REQuest[:ENAble] and Paging IMSI Setup .
Note that in most cases when the Status Requests are disabled, you must supply a value for MAX_EIRP in order for the test set and the mobile station to remain connected when the mobile station transmits near its maximum output power. See CALL:MS:REPorted:EIRPower:DEFault .
The test set can disable requests for power-up registrations. See CALL:REGister:PUP[:STATe] and Setting Registration Parameters .
When the test set is connected to a mobile station in a voice echo mode the delay between the incoming voice and when that data is returned to the mobile station is adjustable. See CALL[:CELL[1]]:FCHannel[:FORWard]:SOURce:ECHO and Configuring the Forward Fundamental/Traffic Channel (F-FCH/Traffic) .
Pre-vocoded audio tones are available for selection as an audio source when a non loopback service option is connected. See CALL[:CELL[1]]:FCHannel[:FORWard]:SOURce and Configuring the Forward Fundamental/Traffic Channel (F-FCH/Traffic)
The following sections provide descriptions of IS-95 features introduced with the B.06 release.
The Code Domain Power measurement's pass/fail criteria have been modified to be compliant with the TIA/EIA-98-E specifications for waveform quality. The test was compliant with TIA/EIA-98-D specifications in earlier releases. See Waveform Quality/Code Domain Measurement Description .
The Spectrum Monitor measurement feature has been added. This allows you to find, identify and measure transmitted signals from your mobile phone. It can also be used for spur measurements in the transmit band. See Spectrum Monitor Description .
The FER (Frame Error Rate) measurement adds three new measurement results provided to identify the types of frame errors counted by the FER measurement (see Frame Error Rate (FER) Measurement Description ). The three types of errors now identified are:
The mobile station's ESN can be displayed in decimal format in the Mobile Station Information window. See CALL:MS:REPorted:ESNumber[:DECimal]? and Performing a Registration .
During registration and call setup the test set will normally issue a series of status requests to obtain the band class, max EIRP, and other capabilities from the mobile station. These requests can be disabled in order to decrease the time required to establish a connection with the mobile station. See CALL:MS:REPorted:REQuest[:ENAble] and Paging IMSI Setup .
Note that in most cases when the Status Requests are disabled, you must supply a value for MAX_EIRP in order for the test set and the mobile station to remain connected when the mobile station transmits near its maximum output power. See CALL:MS:REPorted:EIRPower:DEFault .
The test set can disable requests for power-up registrations. See CALL:REGister:PUP[:STATe] and Setting Registration Parameters .
When the test set is connected to a mobile station in a voice echo mode the delay between the incoming voice and when that data is returned to the mobile station is adjustable. See CALL[:CELL[1]]:TRAFfic[:FORWard]:SOURce:ECHO and Configuring the Forward Fundamental/Traffic Channel (F-FCH/Traffic) .
Pre-vocoded audio tones are available for selection as an audio source when a non loopback service option is connected. See CALL[:CELL[1]]:TRAFfic[:FORWard]:SOURce and Configuring the Forward Fundamental/Traffic Channel (F-FCH/Traffic) .
The following sections provide descriptions of AMPS features introduced with the B.06 release.
The Spectrum Monitor measurement feature has been added. This allows you to find, identify and measure transmitted signals from your mobile phone. It can also be used for spur measurements in the transmit band. See Spectrum Monitor Description .
The mobile station's ESN can be displayed in decimal format in the Mobile Station Information window. See CALL:MS:REPorted:ESNumber[:DECimal]? .
The Audio Out connector on the test set's front panel can now be configured to carry one of two signals. It is normally configured to carry the output from the built in audio generator. It can now be configured to carry the analog FM Demod signal. When the analog FM signal is selected to route to the Audio Out connector, a fixed BW bandpass, expandor, and de-emphasis filters are available to operate on the demodulated signal. See SYSTem:AUDio and Configuring the Test Set's AUDIO OUT port .
This function allows you to store the test set's current settings to a register and retrieve them later, eliminating the task of reconfiguring the test set. See Save and Recall Registers .
This feature allows you to display GPIB commands on the test set's front panel display by pressing a command function's front panel button or soft key. See Help Mode .
The test set provides two new test signals (AM or DSB-SC) for output. An example usage of the test signals is for calibrating mobile stations that use Qualcomm's radioOne architecture. See CW Operating Mode .
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This firmware release adds no new features. The Time Response of Open Loop Power Control measurement, which was introduced at the B.04 release with relaxed specifications, has now been fully qualified and meets published specifications.
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This firmware release adds the following new features:
The following sections provide descriptions of cdma2000 features introduced with the B.04 release.
This measurement is a graphic view of the mobile station under test's output power after a step increase or step decrease in cell power from the test set. The graph displays mobile station power over a 100 ms period with pass/fail results determined by the measured signal's conformance to mask limits derived from the test standard. See Time Response of Open Loop Power Control (TROLPC) Measurement Description .
The graphical code domain power measurement now includes a table of code channel power values that simplifies testing a mobile station's conformance to TIA/EIA-98-D 4.4.9.2.2 Code Channel Output Power for the Reverse Traffic Channel . The new table provides specific code channel power relative to the reverse pilot channel in units of dB. Also displayed in the table are Walsh number, spread factor, code channel power relative to mean output of the mobile station, and total code channel power relative to the mean output of the mobile station. See Waveform Quality/Code Domain Measurement Description .
The Tx Spurious Emissions measurement displays pass/fail results based on a mask defined by test standards. This mask automatically displays power limits derived from two adjacent frequency offsets and two alternate frequency offsets. An adjustable mask control feature is now provided that allows two mask parameters to be adjusted, one for the adjacent frequency pass/fail limits and one for the alternate frequency pass/fail limits. See Tx Spurious Emissions Measurement Description .
The Waveform Quality measurement Numeric Rho view is now displayed in a table when Multi-Measurement Count is on. Minimum, Maximum, and Average for the number of measurements requested is displayed in the table. Standard deviation is available using GPIB commands. See Waveform Quality/Code Domain Measurement Description and Statistical Measurement Results .
This firmware release adds the following new features:
The following sections provide descriptions of cdma2000 features introduced with the B.03 release.
This implementation of TDSO service option 32 (SO32 (+SCH)) assigns the mobile station to both forward and reverse supplemental channels. There is no measurement selection or standard tests associated with the reverse supplemental channel.
The implementation of TDSO service option 32 that was introduced at B.02 (SO32(+ F-SCH)) provided non-loopback frame error rate measurements on the forward supplemental channel. When SO32 (+SCH) is selected, frame error rate measurements on the forward supplemental channel are still available. See CALL[:CELL]:SOPTion[:SELected][:SELected] and TDSO Frame Error Rate Measurement Description .
Beginning with release B.02 the graphical Gated Power measurement included a "Full" and "Zoom" view of the mobile station's signal during the gated on period. The gated power measurement now includes expanded views of the rising portion and falling portion of the mobile station's transmitter power during gated operation. Gated power occurs only when the mobile station is operating in IS-95 mode or IS-2000 mode with radio configuration 1 or 2 selected and eighth rate data is selected. See Gated Power Measurement Description .
PRBS is an acronym for pseudo random bit sequence. PRBS is a new data pattern available for TDSO frame error rate tests. When making code domain measurements with a supplemental channel service option PRBS data is required. See CALL:SCHannel:TDSOption:DSOurce .
When a test data service option is selected, the test set sends data bits to the mobile station on the forward supplemental channel. The mobile station demodulates the forward supplemental channel data and reports frame errors to the test set on the reverse fundamental channel. (See TDSO Frame Error Rate Measurement Description for additional details.)
Secondary 800 MHz Band (Band Class 10) has been added to the list of supported bands. See CALL:BAND and CALL:SETup:BAND:[:SELected] .
The test set now provides settings for local and universal time and date. See Configuring System Time and Date .
A type-N RF connector on the test set's front panel provides an optional path for the forward channel or analog signal. See RFGenerator:OUTPut[:DESTination] and RF OUT ONLY .
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This firmware release adds IS-95 and AMPS system types as well as many cdma2000 features. This firmware release will run on an E5515C chassis with Option 003 (Option 002 is recommended). If you wish to run this firmware on an E5515B or E5515T chassis, contact your local sales representative.
The following sections provide descriptions of cdma2000 features introduced with the B.02 release.
These tests assess any differences in timing or phase between active reverse code channels and the reverse pilot channel. (See Code Channel Time/Phase Error Measurement Description .)
This test (which is similar to the GSM power versus time measurement) verifies that mobile station transmitters conform to gated output power test limits. Transmitter output power is gated when operating in IS-95 or cdma2000 radio configuration one or two modes with partial (eighth) rate data selected. (See Gated Power Measurement Description .)
This test provides a collection of signal energy measurements at only the alternate and adjacent frequency offsets specified by test standards to ensure that mobile stations do not transmit excessive signal energy outside of their transmit channels. (See Tx Spurious Emissions Measurement Description .) Measurements at 12.5
This measurement has been added to provide a collection of waveform quality measurements acquired during mobile station transmission of a single code channel. This measurement can be performed only during a handoff, as specified in the TIA/EIA-98-D test standard. (See Handoff Waveform Quality Measurement Description .)
The Handoff Waveform Quality measurement provides the same suite of measurement results as the multi-code waveform quality measurement (see Waveform Quality/Code Domain Measurement Description ), excluding EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) and code domain power measurements.
TDSO Frame Error Rate measurements provide a test of the mobile station receiver's ability to demodulate the forward supplemental channel. To obtain test results, the test set signals the mobile station under test to count errors that occur while the mobile station is demodulating fixed pattern data sent from the test set. Only convolutional encoding is supported. The test set then displays FER results received from the mobile station. (See TDSO Frame Error Rate Measurement Description .)
The following sections provide descriptions of IS-95 features introduced with the B.02 release.
Supported IS-95 registration procedures are the same as cdma2000 (zone based, timer based, power up, mobile station originated calls, and base station pages).
The following sections provide descriptions of AMPS features introduced with the B.02 release.
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