Embodiment
Base band data modular converter in embodiment of the present invention baseband interconnection equipment converts the base band data from equipment under test receiving by radio base band interface module to the interface protocol of testing equipment, and send the base band data after conversion by test baseband interface module to testing equipment, and convert the base band data that carrys out self-testing device receiving by test baseband interface module the interface protocol of equipment under test to, and pass through the base band data after radio base band interface module is changed to equipment under test transmission.Be connected with testing equipment owing to can realizing Base Band Unit, thereby shortened development time of Base Band Unit, dropped to occur wrong after the difficulty of location error unit.
In force, the signal transmitting between tested equipment and baseband interconnection equipment is baseband digital signal; And/or the signal transmitting between testing equipment and baseband interconnection equipment is baseband digital signal;
Accordingly, baseband interconnection equipment obtains base band data from baseband digital signal.
Below in conjunction with Figure of description, the embodiment of the present invention is described in further detail.
As shown in Figure 1B, in embodiment of the present invention baseband signal connection diagram, baseband interconnection equipment is connected with equipment under test by multifiber or other data wires; Be connected with testing equipment by data wire.The baseband interconnection equipment of the embodiment of the present invention can connect TDD (Time division duplex, time division duplex) Wireless Telecom Equipment of pattern, also can connect FDD (Frequency division duplex, Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD)) Wireless Telecom Equipment of pattern, can support full-duplex mode simultaneously, Supporting connectivity possesses the Wireless Telecom Equipment of many antenna functions, and at this time base band data has multichannel data, the data of the corresponding antenna in each road.
As shown in Figure 2, embodiment of the present invention the first baseband interconnection equipment comprises: base band data modular converter 20, radio base band interface module 21 and test baseband interface module 22.
Base band data modular converter 20, for the base band data from equipment under test receiving by radio base band interface module 21 being converted to the interface protocol of testing equipment, and send the base band data after conversion by test baseband interface module 22 to testing equipment, and convert the base band data that carrys out self-testing device receiving by test baseband interface module 22 interface protocol of equipment under test to, and pass through the base band data after radio base band interface module 21 is changed to equipment under test transmission;
Radio base band interface module 21, for forwarding the base band data of transmission between base band data modular converter 20 and equipment under test;
Test baseband interface module 22, for forwarding the base band data of transmission between base band data modular converter 20 and testing equipment.
Wherein, the base band data modular converter 20 of the embodiment of the present invention can be a kind of programming device or special integrated circuit (ASIC), such as FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array, field programmable gate array) module, DSP (Digital Signal Processor, Digital Signal Processing) module.
Preferably, the agreement that radio base band interface module 21 is supported includes but not limited to following agreement:
TD-SCDMA IR (TD SDMA digital mobile cellular telecommunication net distributed base station IR) interface protocol, CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface, common public radio interface) agreement, CCSA (China Communications Standards Association, CCSA) definition TD-LTE IR (TD SDMA Long Term Evolution digital mobile cellular telecommunication net distributed base station IR) interface protocol, DigRF interface protocol (interface protocol between the base band of mobile terminal and radio frequency IC), connect the PCIe interface of DU equipment of C-RAN and other interface protocols of the Base Band Unit of Wireless Telecom Equipment and radio frequency unit.
Preferably, the agreement that test baseband interface module 22 is supported includes but not limited to following agreement:
SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, small computer system interface) agreement and Z-DOK+ interface protocol.
Wherein, test baseband interface module 22 can be that conventional short distance digital data transmission interface is any, can be serial or parallel.In force, can select corresponding matched interfaces according to the interface type of tester support.
Preferably, sending function and receiving function in test baseband interface module 22 can also be divided into two modules.Concrete, as shown in Figure 3, test baseband interface module 22 can further include: test base band input interface module 220 and test base band output interface module 221.
Test base band input interface module 220, for by the transfer of data of testing equipment to base band data modular converter 20;
Test base band output interface module 221, for by the transfer of data of base band data modular converter 20 to testing equipment.
Preferably, base band data modular converter 20 is according to conversion parameter, the agreement of testing equipment interface support will be converted to from the base band data of equipment under test, and according to conversion parameter, the base band data of self-testing device converts the agreement that equipment under test interface is supported in the future.
Be CPRI agreement with the interface protocol of equipment under test below, the supported protocol of testing equipment interface is that SCSI agreement is example, and the function of base band data modular converter 20 is elaborated.
It should be noted that, the conversion between the conversion between other agreements and CPRI agreement and SCSI agreement is similar, does not repeat them here.
Base band data modular converter 20 is according to conversion parameter, C & M (Control & Management, control and management) passage in the base band data that parsing receives by radio base band interface module and data and the I/Q data in S passage; According to conversion parameter, I/Q data are divided into multiple groups, wherein every group of data belong to same radio-frequency channel; For one group of data, these group data are sent by corresponding interface in test baseband interface module; And
According to conversion parameter, by the base band data composition I/Q data of receiving by the each interface in test baseband interface module; Fill the data in C & M passage and S passage according to CPRI protocol data form; And the data in C & M passage and S passage and I/Q data are sent by tested baseband interface module.
Preferably, the conversion parameter that base band data modular converter 20 uses include but not limited in following message partly or entirely:
Interface rate, base station side or the end side of the antenna number of equipment under test, each agreement.
Concrete, CPRI agreement layer 2 (data link layer) provides the service interface of three kinds of data: SAP
iQ, SAP
cMand SAP
s, SAP
cMand SAP
sinterface is also referred to as C & M passage, S passage.SAP
iQbe business datum interface, business datum is sent and is accepted by this service interface; SAP
cMbe to control and management data interface, the data of control and management are sent and are accepted by this service interface; SAP
sbe synchronous data interface, the data that the device synchronization at CPRI interface two ends need to be transmitted are sent and are accepted by this service interface.
SAP
iQthe data array of data-interface is as follows:
wherein
represent a pair of I, the Q data of a radio-frequency channel, a represents the radio-frequency channel sequence number (supposing 1≤a≤8) of wireless device, often a pair of
data, comprise I, two integer datas of Q, the bit bit wide M (specifically can select as required the size of M) of each data.
Taking M=15 as example, I/Q data are divided into multiple groups and comprise:
First the SAP of CPRI agreement
iQthe data of data-interface are divided into 8 parts, specifically can be referring to table 1;
Then, 8 partial datas are exported to test baseband interface module 22 by base band data modular converter 20, and every partial data is a corresponding road SCSI respectively.
In the corresponding relation of data bit and SCSI pin, because each data are made up of M bit, often a pair of
data have 2*M bit, are expressed as I
m-1, I
m-2, I
m-3..., I
2, I
1, I
0, Q
m-1, Q
m-2, Q
m-3..., Q
2, Q
1, Q
0.The quantity of the pin that general warranty scsi interface is used for transmitting data is no less than 2*M, if number of pins more than
bit quantity (number of bit altogether of a pair of I/Q data of bit quantitaes here, here hypothesis be 2M), so first respectively I, two data of Q are carried out to sign extended, bit quantity is equated with number of pins.The corresponding relation (S represents the symbol data of sign extended) as shown in table 2 of data bit and SCSI pin.
It should be noted that, table 2 just illustrates, as long as can ensure that each bit of data can have at least one pin correspondence, the corresponding relation of any data bit and SCSI pin is all suitable for the embodiment of the present invention.
It is above-mentioned inverse process that scsi data format conversion becomes the process of CPRI data format, wherein for the data in C & M passage and S passage, base band data modular converter 20 need to be filled according to the data format of CPRI, the content of filling can arrange, such as can be according to the data of the control and management of CPRI protocol requirement, or the feedback data of CPRI protocol streams range request can be also other any data; The data format of CPRI can be referring to " CPRI Specification V4.2 " agreement.
Table 1
I_DATA(0) |
I0 |
I_DATA(1) |
I1 |
...... |
...... |
I_DATA(M-1) |
IM-1 |
I_DATA(M) |
S |
Q_DATA(0) |
Q0 |
Q_DATA(1) |
Q1 |
...... |
...... |
Q_DATA(M-1) |
QM-1 |
Q_DATA(M) |
S |
Table 2
Preferably, the conversion parameter that base band data modular converter 20 uses can be pre-stored in base band data modular converter 20; Also can arrange as required.
If arranged, concrete, as shown in Figure 4, the third baseband interconnection equipment of the embodiment of the present invention comprises: control and synchronization module 23.
Controlling and synchronization module 23, for according to configuration information, is base band data modular converter 20 configuration transitions parameters.
In force, tester is inputed to the configuration information that comprises conversion parameter to control and synchronization module 23 by human-computer interaction interface.Control and synchronization module 23 are received after configuration information, can be just base band data modular converter 20 configuration transitions parameters.
Preferably, if configuration information comprises the interface protocol of equipment under test support and the interface protocol that testing equipment is supported, control and synchronization module 23 also for according to configuration information, for base band data modular converter 20 configures the agreement that the interface of agreement that the interface of equipment under test supports and testing equipment is supported; Accordingly, before base band data modular converter 20 carries out base band data conversion, determine respectively according to configuration information the agreement that the interface of equipment under test and testing equipment is supported.
Preferably, the synchrodata (being the data in S passage) in the base band data that control and synchronization module 23 can receive by radio base band interface module according to base band data modular converter 20 is carried out synchronously;
Control and synchronization module 23 can also carry out synchronously according to the synchronizing signal of receiving by sync cap.
The baseband interconnection equipment of the embodiment of the present invention can also comprise that built-in power module is used to baseband interconnection equipment to power; Can also directly adopt external power supply is the power supply of baseband interconnection equipment.
In force, the baseband interconnection equipment of the embodiment of the present invention can be equipment under test or testing equipment.
Accordingly, base band data modular converter 20 converts the base band data receiving by internal interface module to the interface protocol of opposite equip., and send the base band data after conversion by external interface module to opposite equip., and the base band data from opposite equip. receiving by external interface module is converted to the interface protocol of internal support, and send the base band data after conversion by internal interface module;
External interface module, for forwarding the base band data of transmission between baseband interconnection equipment and opposite equip..
If baseband interconnection equipment is equipment under test, opposite equip. is testing equipment, and external interface module is test baseband interface module 21, as shown in Figure 5;
If baseband interconnection equipment is testing equipment, opposite equip. is equipment under test, external interface module be radio base band interface module 22 as shown in Figure 6.
Accordingly, base band data modular converter 20 is according to conversion parameter, the base band data receiving by internal interface module is converted to the interface protocol of opposite equip., and according to conversion parameter, the base band data from opposite equip. receiving is converted to the interface protocol of internal support by external interface module.
Accordingly, if baseband interconnection equipment is equipment under test, and external interface module is SCSI agreement;
Base band data modular converter 20 is according to conversion parameter, resolves C & M passage in the base band data receiving by internal interface module and data and the I/Q data in S passage; According to conversion parameter, I/Q data are divided into multiple groups, wherein every group of data belong to same radio-frequency channel; For one group of data, these group data are sent by interface corresponding in external interface module; And according to conversion parameter, by the base band data composition I/Q data of receiving by the each interface in external interface module; Fill the data in C & M passage and S passage according to CPRI protocol data form; And the data in C & M passage and S passage and I/Q data are sent by internal interface module.
Accordingly, if baseband interconnection equipment is testing equipment, and external interface module is CPRI agreement; Base band data modular converter 20 is according to conversion parameter, resolves C & M passage in the base band data receiving by external interface module and data and the I/Q data in S passage; According to conversion parameter, I/Q data are divided into multiple groups, wherein every group of data belong to same radio-frequency channel; For one group of data, these group data are sent by interface corresponding in internal interface module; And according to conversion parameter, by the base band data composition I/Q data of receiving by the each interface in internal interface module; Fill the data in C & M passage and S passage according to CPRI protocol data form; And the data in C & M passage and S passage and I/Q data are sent by external interface module.
Accordingly, control and synchronization module 23, according to configuration information, are base band data modular converter 20 configuration transitions parameters;
Accordingly, if baseband interconnection equipment is equipment under test, control and synchronization module 23 according to configuration information, the agreement of supporting for the interface of base band data modular converter configuration testing equipment;
If baseband interconnection equipment is testing equipment, control and synchronization module 23 according to configuration information, the agreement of supporting for the interface of base band data modular converter configuration equipment under test.
Current method of attachment can only directly be tested and measure the radiofrequency signal of equipment under test, and cannot directly the baseband signal of equipment under test be tested and be measured.This makes the thermometrically of Base Band Unit equipment be subject to the impact of the development progress of radio frequency unit, affects to a certain extent the construction cycle of product.Be connected with testing equipment because the embodiment of the present invention can realize Base Band Unit, thereby shortened development time of Base Band Unit
Current method of attachment cannot be carried out thermometrically to Base Band Unit separately, can only carry out thermometrically to the entirety of Base Band Unit and radio frequency unit, can not effectively position mistake or deviation, increases the time of test position fix.Be connected with testing equipment because the embodiment of the present invention can realize Base Band Unit, dropped to the difficulty that occurs wrong rear location error unit.
Current method of attachment requires tester must have radio frequency unit, thereby has improved the cost of tester, has increased the cost of equipment vendors' use test instruments.Because the embodiment of the present invention can realize between tester and equipment under test by base band signal transmission, thereby reduce the cost of tester.
Based on same inventive concept, a kind of method of transferring is also provided in the embodiment of the present invention, due to principle and embodiment of the present invention baseband interconnection unit affinity that the method is dealt with problems, therefore the enforcement of the method can be referring to the enforcement of equipment, repeats part and repeat no more.
As shown in Figure 7, the method that the embodiment of the present invention is transferred comprises the following steps:
Step 701, convert the base band data from equipment under test receiving the interface protocol of testing equipment to, and send the base band data after conversion to testing equipment; And
Step 702, convert the base band data that carrys out self-testing device receiving the interface protocol of equipment under test to, and send the base band data after conversion to equipment under test.
Wherein, between step 701 and step 702, there is no inevitable sequential relationship, if receive the base band data of equipment under test, perform step 701; If receive the base band data of testing equipment, perform step 702.That is to say, step 701 and step 702 can be carried out simultaneously, also can first perform step 701, also can first perform step 702.
Preferably, in step 701, according to conversion parameter to, the agreement of testing equipment interface support will be converted from the base band data of equipment under test;
Preferably, in step 702, according to conversion parameter, the base band data of self-testing device converts the agreement that equipment under test interface is supported in the future.
If the interface protocol of equipment under test is CPRI agreement, the supported protocol of testing equipment interface is SCSI agreement:
Preferably, in step 701, according to conversion parameter, resolve receive from data and I/Q data in C & M passage and S passage in the base band data of equipment under test; According to conversion parameter, I/Q data are divided into multiple groups, wherein every group of data belong to same radio-frequency channel; Every group of data are sent to respectively to testing equipment.
If the interface protocol of equipment under test is CPRI agreement, the supported protocol of testing equipment interface is SCSI agreement:
Preferably, in step 701, according to conversion parameter, by the multi-group data composition I/Q data of carrying out self-testing device of receiving; Fill the data in C & M passage and S passage according to CPRI protocol data form; Data in C & M passage and S passage and I/Q data are sent to equipment under test.
Preferably, the method also comprises:
According to carrying out synchronously from the synchrodata in the base band data of equipment under test of receiving; Or
Carry out synchronously according to the synchronizing signal of receiving.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification and not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention the present invention.Like this, if these amendments of the present invention and within modification belongs to the scope of the claims in the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, the present invention is also intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.