Jihyun Park

Ready for RED - new mandatory test requirements for

automotive radio equipment, TVs and set-top boxes

Agenda

ı RED - The Radio Equipment Directive

ı R&S®BTC – Broadcast Test Center

ı ETSI EN 303 340 measurements

ı ETSI EN 303 345 measurements

ı Test and reporting

New mandatory tasks for broadcast and car receivers

Who is affected?

Consumer electronics manufacturers

Audio equipment makers (car radio, stereo etc)

Car makers and car integrators

Audio or video module manufacturers

Test House

R&S®BTC – Broadcast Test Center

The All-in-One Solution

DUT

Signal Generation

RF Performance

Tests

Automated Testing

Test SuitesAnalysis

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R&S®BTC – Global used Broadcast Standards

ı R&S®BTC supported broadcast standards

ı Analog and digital terrestrial broadcasting

▪ Audio and TV signal generation

Digital TV Mobile TV Analog TVAudio

Broadcasting

DVB-T/T2 DVB-H B/G AM

ISDB-T ISDB-T 1 seg. D/K FM / RDS

ATSC / 8VSB ATSC-M/H I/I1 DAB

DTMB CMMB M/N DAB+

DVB-S/S2 T-DMB L/L` ISDB-Tsb

DVB-S2X DRM

ISDB-S DRM+

DirecTV HD Radio™

DVB-C2 XM Radio1

DVB-C CDR2

ISDB-C DARC2

J.83/B VICS2

ATSC 3.02

DTMB2

1 next upcoming standards2 requested standard

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R&S®BTC (Broadcast Test Center) – Single box solution

ı 2RF paths up to 6GHz

ı

Analogue input module

All digital and analogue broadcasting

standards supported

ı HDMI input module

ı

ı Integrated power sensor

} audio & video analyzer

160 MHz bandwidth

ETSI EN 303 345 measurements

R&S®BTC – Receiver testing acc. to EN 303 345

ı Radio testing

▪ With AM, FM, DAB & DRM in line with conformance requirements

▪ Sensitivity

▪ Adjacent channel selectivity and blocking

ı For all radio broadcast receivers

▪ Stationary receivers

▪ Mobile receivers

▪ Car entertainment systems

Generic methods of testing audio receiver devices

Radiated tests

Conducted tests

Receivers with

built-in antenna

integral antenna

Receivers with an external antenna connector

EN 303 345 test setup

RF signal generator

(with built-in modul

ation)

Variable a

ttenuator

1

Signal C

ombiner

Matching

pad

RF signal generator (

with external modulat

ion capability)

Variable

attenuator

2

4.5/15 kHz lo

w-pass filter

Pre-emphasis

(FM only)CCIR Rec.

559 filter

Noise ge

nerator

Receiver under test

Audio test set

(CCIR 468

weighting)Wanted

Signal

Unwanted

signal

©

Audio

Coupling loop

for AM

White

noise

Shaped

noise

Modulation

Audio player

ı Loading the audio content in the internal audio player

▪ Selecting CCIR559 weighted noise

▪ AM: 4.5 kHz bandwidth

▪ FM: 15 kHz bandwidth

R&S®BTC – CCIR559 Weighted Noise

Source: ETSI EN 303345

EN 303 345 – DAB and DRM minimum sensitivity requirements

ı R&S®BTC

▪ Realtime coder for DAB and DRM

▪ Frequency settings for AM, FM, DAB and DRM

▪ Level setting in dBm or dBµV

Source: ETSI EN 303345

EN 303 345 – DAB and DRM minimum sensitivity requirements

ı R&S®BTC

▪ Install DAB / DRM service

DUT

Audio analysis

Source: ETSI EN 303345

ı Audio measurement acc. to CCIR 468

▪ Currently only supported by the R&S®UPV and R&S®UPP

▪ R&S®VT-B2370 with R& R&S®VT-K2150 audio analysis

EN 303 345 – Audio Test-Set Measurement

CCIR 1k weighted = ITU-R 468

not present in the

VT-K2150 option

today

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BTC Audio analysis

With K2150 sw option

measurement of:

▪ Level

▪ THD+N

▪ Frequency Response

(spectrum, sweep)

▪ SNR

▪ Crosstalk

▪ Inter-channel phase

▪ Quality (PESQ, POLQA)

EN 303 345 – example: DRM selectivity & blocking measurements

ı Test setup

▪ Requires two signal generators

ı R&S®BTC

▪ One-box solution

▪ Two signal generators

▪ Internal I/Q paths combining

Signal g

enerator

1

Variable

attenuator

1

Signal g

enerator

2

Variable

attenuator

2

CombinerAntenna

Network

Device u

nder test

Loudspeaker

EN 303 345 – DRM wanted and unwanted signal

ı Internal interferer addition with frequency offset

Source: ETSI EN 303345

Test concept of EN 303 345

Automated or manual operation

RF

HDMI/Composite/

Component signa

l

Manual operation: Human ear j

udgement for pass/fail analysis

Automatic operation:

Using R&S®BTC for signal generat

ion and Audio Analyzer for result an

alysis

Commands sent

via CAN bus

RF simulation

Test case runni

ng on PC

CAN bus controller Loudspeaker

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Automation software

4.2.3 SensitivityEN 303 340 Test

Test report

EN 303 340

Summary

ı New European test standard for Terrestrial Digital TV and Radio Broadcast Receivers

▪ Harmonized Standard covering the requirements of article 3.2 of the Directive

2014/53/EU

ı R&S®BTC – Co-existence test of

▪ DVB-T/T2 and LTE (acc. to EN 303 340)

▪ AM, FM, DRM and DAB (acc. to EN 303 345)

▪ DVB-S/S2 and AWGN (acc. To EN 303 372-2)

100% product fit for the R&S®BTC !EN 303 340: Testing is mandatory from June 2017 onwards!

EN 303 345: To be finalized in 2018 – mandatory testing!

EN 303 372-2 : To be finalized in 2017 – mandatory testing!

Ready for RED?