Test set upgraded to support latest Bluetooth 5

Anritsu Corporation has released an upgrade to the MT8852B Bluetooth Test Set to support the latest Bluetooth core specification version 5. The device is one of the market leading RF measuring instruments for design proving and production test of a wide range of products that integrate Bluetooth technology. It supports BR, EDR and BLE measurement of transmit power, frequency, modulation, and receiver sensitivity required by Bluetooth RF test specifications These new options for the device support the full range of PHY layer (RF) tests required by the new Bluetooth 5 specifications for designing and manufacturing Bluetooth devices and SoC, especially tests for 2Mbps Low Energy PHY (2LE), which greatly improves battery life, and for BLR, which extends communications over longer ranges of several hundred meters. Although the device has supported the earlier Bluetooth Low Energy specification, this upgrade adds new measurement options for the 2LE and BLR specifications. New test cases can run as part of test scripts to simplify test-case creation and cut test times. It implements 2LE and BLR measurements by direct connection and can control the device under test (DUT) either via USB, two-wire RS-232 HCI DTM, or USB–Serial conversion adapter interfaces.