R&S®TS7100 / TS7180 Test Platform for Mobile Phone Production
Scalable solutions from low-cost standard system to turnkey production system
Mobile radio - a dynamic market
The mobile radio market is undergoing dynamic changes and is characterized by rapidly increasing production volumes, extremely short product cycles and a variety of mobile radio standards. Special design tools and chip sets today simplify mobile radio development, which has resulted in many new manufacturers entering this market and offering attractively priced products of their own. This leads to increasingly fierce competition.
Important developments on the mobile phone market
- Reduction of time to volume
- Reduction of production costs
- Re-usable test solutions for new products and new mobile radio standards
- Outsourcing to contract manufacturers
- New mobile radio manufacturers
- Use of reference designs from different chip set manufacturers
- Large local markets, e.g. China
- Global manufacturers using internationally standardized test solutions
- Global projects involving development teams and production plants around the world
Demands on production test solutions
- Minimization of costs per mobile radio unit, i.e. high throughput
- Standardized, easily adaptable solutions
- Production at any location around the world
- Easy integration of a company’s own core competences
- Local support on a global scale
- Continuous development and upgrading to include new mobile radio standards
- Constant optimization, updating and further development of test platform
- Ready-to-use solutions for different reference designs
- Global project management
Being one of the world’s leading manufacturers in the field of communication T&M, Rohde & Schwarz has developed the R&S® TS7180 and R&S® TS7100 systems, which are optimal solutions for production tests on all types of mobile phones. They offer turnkey solutions for PCB tests, RF adjustment and final tests of mobile phones.
Wide range of services
The Rohde & Schwarz test systems are backed by a wide range of services. Customers are supported in selecting and configuring a system that best suits their application. On request, customized test programs are created and the system is fully integrated into the production process. System calibration and maintenance are provided too. You can rely on the expertise of Rohde&Schwarz to handle all tasks connected with the development and maintenance of your production test system.
