Pre-Compliance Over-The-Air Performance Testing on Wireless Devices

The use of anechoic chambers for the testing of Over-The- Air (OTA) wireless device requirements such as those regulated by the CTIA has become common practice over the last five years. These facilities allow measurements to be carried out to the degree of accuracy and repeatability required by OTA regulations. However, in most cases OTA chambers become very busy as a result of the number of tests needed to certify each product. Users may therefore encounter throughput issues that delay product development and in the global wireless market of today this can rapidly become a major hurdle to the success of a product.