Product Details
The MIPI RF Front End Control Interface, MIPI RFFE, is the world’s de-facto standard interface for control of radio frequency (RF) front-end (FE) subsystems. It delivers fast, agile, semi-automated, and comprehensive control of the complex RF subsystem environment, which has rigorous performance requirements and can include up to 19 components per bus instance (up to 15 target devices and up to four master devices), including power amplifiers, LNAs, antenna tuners, filters, and switches.
As a part of product validation, it’s important to validate the product’s conformance against the protocol specification to ensure the interoperability of the product. As the complexity of the protocol and product increases, the validation time of the protocol interfaces also increases which in turn reduces the RTM. Performing the protocol conformance testing in the traditional way needs a lot of time and effort.
Soliton’s RFFE Validation Suite is an off the shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI Platform, which helps to validate the devices’ compliance with timing and electrical specifications of the MIPI RFFE protocol. The tool can also validate the devices tolerance to and recovery from a variety of RFFE faults & exceptions and provides a comprehensive set of reports. Users have claimed that, using this automated solution for RFFE Validation has brought down the test time/ validation time from a few weeks to a couple of days.
Peek and Poke GUI for exercise and debug the RFFE communication manually. User can configure any allowed timing/voltage parameters to debug the transactions.
Technical Documentation
Soliton’s RFFE Validation Suite is an off the shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI platform, which helps to validate the devices’ compliance with the timing and electrical specifications of the MIPI RFFE protocol. It contains the below components.
- NI PXIe 657x – Digital Pattern Generation Card with the PXIe Chassis setup
- Soliton PVS Interposer Board
- Oscilloscope – For performing voltage measurements
- Soliton RFFE Validation Suite Software compatible with Windows OS (Win 10)
Hardware
Soliton’s RFFE Validation suite is based on the NI – PXI Platform and the NI part configuration lists the hardware required to perform the validation
Support & Training
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TYPICAL USER BASE FOR RFFE VALIDATION SUITE
- Design Engineers, Test Engineers, Post Silicon Validation Engineers, Engineering Managers, Validation Managers, Lab Managers, etc from the Semiconductor Industry.
- Post Silicon validation of Chips with RF Front End Interface (RFFE)
- Semiconductor Chip Manufacturers making RFFE Devices