RFXpress Software for RF/IF/IQ Waveform Creation and Editing

Enabling you to create the exact waveforms required for extensive, thorough and repeatable design validation, and margin and conformance testing. RFXpress considerably cuts the time you need for signal creation and simulations, thus reducing overall development and test time.

Features and Benefits

• Define Base Band I and Q Signals Using a Variety of Modulation Schemes
• Create Single and Multi-carrier Signals Where Each Carrier is Independently Defined
• Apply Impairments such as Quadrature Error and Imbalance or Non-linear Impairments
• Add Interferences and Multipaths During Waveform Creation
• Replay Baseband Waveform Files Captured from Oscilloscopes and Real-time Spectrum Analyzers as IQ or IF/RF. Add Impairments and Interferences to the Captured Waveform before Replay

UWB-WiMedia

• Direct RF Generation of WiMedia BG1 and BG2Waveforms*2
• Ability to Generate IQ and IF Waveforms for all Band Groups including Band Hopping
• User Defined IF Frequency Including TFC Pattern
• Comprehensive WiMedia Signal Generation Support for MAC and PHY Layers
• Ability to Create UWB-WiMedia Correction files Which can be Automatically Applied as Compensation to Accurately Generate RF/IF Signals
• Gated Noise Feature can be Used to Define Noise Profiles, Which can be Defined Individually for Each Section of the UWB Packet. (Pre-amble, PPDU Header & PSDU)
• Create Tone Nulling with Intermediate Values for both Amplitude (20 dB to -60 dB) and Phase (-180 to +180°) for OFDM Carrier Mapping
• Ready to Use "Real-World Interference" like WiFi (802.11a and MIMO), WiMAX and Radar to the WiMedia Waveform

Applications

• Design and Debug Wideband Wireless Communications Receivers
• Generate General-purpose Digitally Modulated IQ, IF, and RF Signals
• Characterize WiMedia MB-OFDM UltraWideband (UWB) Radio Platform for Applications like Wireless USB (WUSB), FireWire, Bluetooth, WiNet

Additional Resources

RFXpress Advanced RF/IF/IQ Waveform Creation and Editing Software for Tektronix Arbitrary Waveform Generators Fact Sheet (923 KB)
RFXpress is a powerful and easy-to-use set of software packages to synthesize digitally modulated base band, IF and RF signals that are generated by arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs). RFXpress runs as an integral part of the Tektronix AWG7000 and AWG5000 Series arbitrary waveform generators, or from an external PC.