Testimonials
Ten years ago Fanny and her R&D team at Scope created a family of capable and reliable network test products that Agilent is still selling today. — Ed Richards, GM, Agilent 1993-2001
Hardware Development Services
Our hardware design capabilities include
- Analog and RF circuit design, including mixers, filters, oscillators, amplifiers and other common circuits
- High speed logic design, including FPGAs switching at a clock rate of up to 1 GHz
- Matlab and SPICE simulation capabilities
- RF and wireless communications domain expertise including the knowledge of MAC and PHY protocols for Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, Bluetooth®, UWB and cellular 2G/3G technologies
Our projects include:
MCPA (multi-carrier power amplifier) subsystem
High frequency, high power MCPA subsystem that improves the efficiency of an MCPA for WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE base stations
RF test equipment subsystem
A high voltage high slew rate pulse generator for performing RF I-V measurements on Gallium Nitride (GaN), Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) devices
Analysis of an RF frond end device for new generation handsets
An in-depth study of a semiconductor design for a wide-band RF front-end device aimed at supporting a variety of wireless services in a handheld device
Analysis of a fiber optic measurement system
Architectural and design analysis of a fiber optic OTDR (optical time domain reflectrometer) based diagnostic system, including the analysis of spectral measurements and sources of interference in the system
The octoScope team has hands-on design experience and a track record of architecting and developing successful hardware products in the following areas:
- Handheld test equipment for qualifying high frequency cabling (the Agilent WireScope)
- OTDR (optical time domain reflectrometer)
- Optical loss and delay measurement equipment
- Network monitoring and protocol analysis tester (the Agilent FrameScope)
- RF Cable modem design
- Stackable broadband modems
- Ethernet, token ring and FDDI concentrators
- Automated test equipment subsystems, including CCD test subsystems
- Wafer stepper equipment for manufacturing of LCD displays
- HiFi audio electronics for the Bose Home Theatre product
- Vision systems
- Radar, including a unique antenna design, for imaging of objects through walls
- Wireless range vs. rate testers
- Wireless channel emulations test equipment