Wireless LAN Tester fulfills high-volume production needs.
Press Release Summary:
IQflex(TM) 802.11a/b/g WLAN Manufacturing Test Solution offers capabilities of vector signal analyzer, vector signal generator, spectrum analyzer, and power meter. It measures error vector magnitude, spectral mask compliance, and phase noise levels. IQflex uses LitePoint Application Programming Interface to operate under control of Visual C/C++ test scripts. Test scripts can be created to support either automated pass/fail or parametric testing.
Original Press Release:
LitePoint Announces Availability of IQflex(TM), The First Dedicated Manufacturing Test Solution For Wireless LAN Products
All-in-one 802.11a/b/g test instrument improves quality while reducing cost of test
SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 2, 2004 - LitePoint Corporation, an industry-leading provider of advanced wireless solutions and test instruments, today announced shipment of its new IQflex(TM) 802.11a/b/g WLAN Manufacturing Test Solution. IQflex is the only dedicated WLAN test instrument available today meeting increasingly stricter test requirements in 802.11a/b/g WLAN high-volume production. Breaking the cost barrier for advanced WLAN manufacturing test, IQflex replaces costly general-purpose equipment and less than perfect "golden radio" testing while ensuring compliance with future WLAN standard changes.
Industry-proven Architecture - Improving Quality
IQflex is based on LitePoint's industry-proven IQview(TM) 802.11a/b/g WLAN Test Solution. Like IQview, IQflex is a wide-bandwidth device incorporating the capabilities of a Vector Signal Analyzer (VSA), Vector Signal Generator (VSG), spectrum analyzer, and power meter into a single high-performance instrument. LitePoint's WLAN test solutions measure advanced transmitter performance metrics such as Error Vector Magnitude (EVM), spectral mask compliance, and phase noise levels. Rather than relying upon a "golden radio" to generate test signals that drift over temperature and time, LitePoint's test solutions independently produce highly accurate signals ensuring consistent and reliable test results.
GEMTEK Technology, Inc. (Taisdaq: 4906), the leading provider of 802.11 WLAN solutions and an early adopter of LitePoint's test solutions, installed IQflex for manufacturing functional test, to reduce test time and improve overall quality of test. "We deployed IQview and IQflex because it's the only solution that satisfy our requirements for cost-effective parametric manufacturing test, significantly improving EVM test quality while reducing test costs," said Jorson Tsai, GM for China plant; VP of Gemtek.
From R&D Through Manufacturer to Brand Owner
Data compatibility and correlation between IQview in the R&D lab and IQflex on the manufacturing floor facilitates fast manufacturing ramp-up, consistency during test development while evaluating test results and downstream analysis.
Netgear, a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products recognized for driving product quality improvements, is leading the improvements in test quality and manufacturing quality transparency for WLAN products by deploying LitePoint's test solutions.
"IQview in the lab and IQflex in the manufacturing line meets our needs for transparency of test results throughout the product development lifecycle", said Patrick Rada, Sr. Principal Wireless Engineer at Netgear. "Being able to ensure a high level of product quality as well as consistent and reliable test results is key when qualifying and working with ODM's and ensures our customers continue to receive high quality products."
Reduced Cost - Improved ROI
IQflex provides low capital and operational costs and realizes a superior return on investment at a fraction of the cost of equivalent dual-band general-purpose test instruments.
"With increased test accuracy, faster test and higher throughput, the manufacturer not only reduces the number of production-line test stations but also improves production yield for overall increased profitability," said Anita Chapman, VP of Marketing of LitePoint. "Ongoing maintenance cost is significantly lower and software upgrades will ensure continued compliance with WLAN standard changes."
Flexible and Customizable
IQflex uses the LitePoint Application Programming Interface (API) to operate under the control of Visual C/C++ test scripts. Test scripts can be easily and quickly created using the LitePoint API's DLL interface to support either automated pass/fail or parametric testing.
IQflex is completely independent of the particular chipset used by a WLAN product design, providing measurements and test signals to assess product quality against the standard and the specific product specifications. At the same time, IQflex capabilities can be readily incorporated as part of PC-controlled test suites for specific chipsets to support production-line calibration of such parameters as transmit power levels, gain and phase imbalances, and crystal oscillator frequency offsets.
Additional information about the LitePoint IQflex 802.11a/b/g WLAN Manufacturing Test Solution is available at www.litepoint.com/solutions/iqflex.php
Product Availability and Pricing
IQflex is available today, supporting test of 802.11a/b/g WLAN products at both 2.4 and 5 GHz.
Price: US$40,000.
About Litepoint
LitePoint Corporation, based in San Jose, California, designs, develops, markets, and supports advanced wireless test solutions for developers and marketers of branded wireless products, for consumer electronics and contract manufacturers, and for wireless IC designers.
By leveraging its in-house expertise in the design of wireless systems and ICs, LitePoint has developed innovative test solutions to assure product conformance to specifications, interoperability with other compliant products, and overall product quality. LitePoint's test products address both R&D and high-volume production, providing its customers with superior ROI, accelerated time-to-market, improved manufacturing yields, improved product quality, and increased profitability.
For more information, please visit www.litepoint.com.
Company Contact:
Anita Chapman / VP Marketing
anita@litepoint.com
Litepoint Corporation
Tel: +1 (408) 456-5000
www.litepoint.com
