CMA180

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BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CMA180

► Discovering CMA180
► Transmitter Testing
► Receiver Testing
► RF Testing (non demodulation)
► VoIP
► CMARUN

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DISCOVERING CMA180

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CMA180 ARCHITECTURE - FRONT
Touchscreen Cursor knob

Speaker

Power key RF in/out RF in RF out USB Interface

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CMA180 ARCHITECTURE - FRONT

Preset

Help

Batt LED

DC LED STBY LED AF1 in AF2 in AF1 out AF2 out Sensor Interface Phone

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CMA180 ARCHITECTURE - FRONT
Print Screen Help Lock Touchscreen

Status info
Load / Save
Setup

Error LED

Remote LED

Busy LED

Ready LED

RF in LED RF out LED RF in LED RF out LED

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CMA180 ARCHITECTURE - REAR
DC or AC
DVI-D connector USB connectors Main Switch connector

LAN Interface Reference input 10MHz Reference output External control

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CMA180 ARCHITECTURE - REAR
External Harddisk Battery
LAN interface USB connectors
Optional Optional

SPDIF output SPDIF input Trigger output Trigger input

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FREQUENCY ( 100KHZ TO 3 GHZ )

Tactical
radio Aeronautics

Car Industry
Home automation

FM/AM Transceivers
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UNIQUE FEATURES (1)
Internal batteries
( up to 4, approx 90min )

4 height units and ¾ 19“

wide compact size Light weight
approx 10Kg

Removable
Harddisk/SSD AC 110V/230V

DC 9 to 30V
Silent vent system
Windows Based ( external source )
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UNIQUE FEATURES (2)

100 W input power

Efficient and CMArun

modern user Graphical
interface Sequencer

Flexible Internal
signal Interferer
routing

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 100 W input power

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INPUT/OUTPUT POWER (1)
RF Connectors (N-Type)

150 W (1 min on / 1 min off)

100 W continuous

• Sensitive IN
• High Power OUT

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INPUT/OUTPUT POWER (2)

► RFIN:
► Maximum allowed feed in power: 20 dBm = 100 mW
► Red Label on frontpanel and user manual
► What happens: RF MMIC switch gets destroyed

► RFOUT:
► Maximum allowed feed in power: 13 dBm = 20 mW
► Red Label on frontpanel and user manual
► What happens:
− low feed in power: output signal may be distorted
− Higher feed in power: RF MMIC switch gets destroyed

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INPUT/OUTPUT POWER (3)
1) Overload detector identifies high power
RF COM
X651 1b)
a) -> short time (20ms) for switching is
handled by diode circuit

b) -> Relays are switched into „Open“ state

17 dB Overload
100 W Detection
DC - 3 GHz Detektor
2) On Screen Warning:
-> Temperature warning on CMA display:
„Remove High Power“
1a)

Overload
Protection
Circuit

RX_GAIN0

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 Efficient and
modern user
interface

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EFFICIENT AND MODERN USER INTERFACE

Pure touch interface Scenario Selector

Max screen size Configures the instrument
for optimized operation for a specific application
such as RX-Test or TX-Test.

Signal Zoom Feature Scenario Setup Guide

Easy zoom for signal Each Scenario comes
of interest with Vision setup guide
to help user
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EFFICIENT AND MODERN USER INTERFACE
Scenario Display Tx Measurement Rx Measurement DX Measurement Audio Measurement

Spectrum Measurement AVIO Measurement Sequencer Expert mode

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 Flexible
signal
routing

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FLEXIBLE SIGNAL ROUTING
Filter Modulator
AF
1
AF

Audio
Sub
AF Gen 1
1 RF
OUT

SP RF
DIF COM

RF
AF Gen 2 IN
2

AF
2

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 Internal
Interferer

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INTERNAL INTERFERER

Radio Tester with

external Interferer

Independent
Frequency
Level
Modulation

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 CMArun
Graphical
Sequencer

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CMARUN SEQUENCER

Create Scripts using

CMArun software and
load into sequencer
for automation

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ANALOG

AM

FM

SSB

PM

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GENERATION/ANALYZING CAPABILITY
Generator Analyzer

RF Generator RF Measurement

• Frequency counter
• 100 kHz to 3000 MHz
• Power
• down to -140 dBm • Frequency Error
• AM, FM, PM, SSB • Spectrum
• ARB Generator for Digital • VSE for Digital

AF Generators AF Measurement

• DTMF • SNR, SINAD, THD, THD+N

• Multitone • Spectrum
• CTCSS • Power
• Sub Audio • Frequency
• Audio Oscilloscope

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CMA180 OVERVIEW - COMMUNICATION AND DISPLAY

USB DVI GPIB LAN

Keyboard, mouse To connect Option CMA- 10/100/1000
and memory stick external displays / B612A Mbit/s
projectors Remote control Remote control

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CMA180 OVERVIEW - POWER SENSOR

EPS
CMA is able to perform CMA can be use for
highly accurate power directional Power
level measurements measurement with
with NRP Sensors, e.g. NRT Sensors, e.g.
NRP-Z51 NRT-Z43

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TRANSMITTER TESTING

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TYPICAL TRANSMITTER BLOCK DIAGRAM

Voice
modulated
or
RF
Data
Mic

Transmitter
Data

Power Supply

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TEST SETUP FOR TRANSMITTER MEASUREMENT
RF Power
AF Antenna RF Counter
Input Out
RF SPA
AF Gen 2 Demod
AF Gen 1 TX

Deviation S/N
Power Supply AF Count Scope
Distortion Speaker

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CMA180 TX SETUP (1)

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CMA180 TX SETUP (2)

• CMA180 provides an audio signal at an AFOUT connector.

• The DUT feeds this audio signal into its modulator and transmits the modulated RF signal
back to the R&S CMA180.
• The R&S CMA180 analyzes the received RF signal, demodulates it and analyzes the
resulting audio signal.

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CMA180 TX SETUP (3)

AF RF

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FIND RF (FINDING UNKNOWN SIGNAL PARAMETERS)

► Single and continuous mode

► automatically search in complete level range

− can also find very weak signals

► limit the search range

− for even faster results

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EXPECTED POWER – WHAT IS IT?

▪ Dynamic range of CMA180 is around 70 dB

▪ Expected Power can be set between 53 dBm and -36 dBm

▪ What does it mean?

expected power overdriven

dynamic range measurement possible

noise

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TX TEST – R&S RADIO TESTING

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RECEIVER TESTING

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TYPICAL RECEIVER BLOCK DIAGRAM

Voice
modulated
or
RF
Speaker Data

Receiver
Data

Power Supply

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TEST SETUP FOR RECEIVER MEASUREMENT

Speaker Antenna
AF Gen 2
Output Input AF Gen 1

RX RF Gen

AF Level S/N
AF Count Scope Power Supply

Distortion Speaker

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CMA180 RX SETUP (1)

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CMA180 RX SETUP (2)

• R&S CMA180 generates an RF signal, modulated with an audio signal.

• The DUT demodulates the RF signal.
• The resulting audio signal is routed back to the R&S CMA180 for analysis.

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CMA180 RX SETUP (3)

RF AF

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TECHNICAL BACKGROUND – AUDIO ANALYSIS
RMS S+N+D

f
RMS N+D

RMS S

RMS D2

2f
D

RMS Dx
xf
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RX TEST – R&S RADIO TESTING

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RF TESTING (NON DEMODULATION)

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SPECTRUM ANALYZER
Obtaining a spectrum plot – Sweeping Spectrum (1)

Select trace mode

Select Markers

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SPECTRUM ANALYZER
Obtaining a spectrum plot – Sweeping Spectrum (2)

Spectrum analyzer
settings

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SPECTRUM ANALYZER (ZERO SPAN)
Zero Span mode

Example of obtaining
the time slot information
of Tetra Signal using
the zero span feature
of spectrum analyzer.

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FFT SPECTRUM ANALYZER
Obtaining a spectrum plot – FFT Spectrum

Fixed Spans
and FFT Length

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HOW TO CONFIGURE RF TRIGGERS

triggers an exp. power + threshold

delays the trigger by offset

minimum time between to trigger

events

Offset
expected
power

threshold Trigger

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VOIP

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R&S SOLUTION
VoIP ED137
I New air traffic radios now support VoIP interfaces to transmit and
receive audio. These digital VoIP interfaces also have to be tested.

I International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) references ED-137B

as the international standard for VoIP in Air Traffic Management.

I This requires connecting the radio to an IP connection that supports

the ED-137 protocol.

I With Firmware 1.5.60, CMA180 support ED-137C

I The R&S®CMA180 and the R&S®CMA-K610 VoIP option make the

VoIP interface available.
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R&S SOLUTION
Radio Setup for VoIP test
▪ VOIP setup in expert mode of CMA180

▪ With VOIP setup, the AFIN and AFOUT are

not needed and are replaced with LAN
connections.

▪ An additional LAN hub will be needed for

communication between CMA180 and the
series4200 radio.

▪ R&S®CMA VoIP Kit R&S®CMA-Z610A or

Third party LAN Hub

▪ The audio information will be transported

using LAN interface.
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R&S SOLUTION
TX/RX FID and AF RX FID, URI

▪ TX FID, URI
▪ AF Level
▪ AF Freq

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R&S SOLUTION
DUT and CMA URI sip setup

Setup:
▪ DUT URI sip: tx@ipaddress
▪ DUT URI sip: rx@ipaddress
(Depends on what settings in
radio IP configuration)

▪ CMA URI sip: vcs

(Default setting)

▪ Frequency ID to Frequency of
Radio

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CMARUN

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CMARUN
Run and define
customized test scripts

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CMA180 SEQUENCER (1)

CMARUN in the Box !!!

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CMA180 SEQUENCER (2)
Popups appear
during runtime

Report displayed
after test run

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AUTOMATED TEST OF R&S SERIES 4200 RADIOS

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AUTOMATED TEST OF R&S RADIOS

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