System and method for confirming radio frequency (RF) signal connectivity with device under test (DUT)

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8934849-B2
Application number	US-201313791127-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2013
Priority date	Mar 8, 2013
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

A system and method for confirming radio frequency (RF) signal connectivity integrity with a device under test (DUT). An output RF signal is provided to a RF signal port and looped back for analysis along with an input RF signal, which includes a reflected signal component related to the output RF signal, from the RF signal port. By measuring magnitudes of combinations of the input and loopback RF signals, e.g., at multiple signal frequencies, it can be determined whether the RF signal port is properly terminated by the DUT.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus including a test system for confirming radio frequency (RF) signal connectivity integrity with a device under test (DUT), comprising:
a RF signal port to convey input and output RF signals, wherein said input RF signal includes a reflected signal component related to said output RF signal;
RF signal source circuitry to provide said output RF signal with one or more RF signal frequencies;
RF signal analysis circuitry responsive to said input…

Assignees

• Litepoint Corp

Inventors

• Kamakaris Theodoros

Classifications

• H04B17/0085 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic