Characterizing twisted pair and coax cables and components is becoming more and more critical, as high data rates and reliable communications within the modern automobile increase, particularly with the use of artificial intelligence. The need to characterize balanced transmission is gaining increasing adoption with the proliferation of AI, safety features, entertainment, and the management of hybrid and electric systems for occupancy comfort.
AEM’s automotive test solutions include small form factor analyzers used in R&D and Manufacturing environments, as well as ruggedized in-car test solutions, designed for manufacturing and service center harness testing. AEM’s Wire Harness test solutions support up to 6GHz frequency range.
TestPro Automotive allows you to test the automotive wire harness while installed in the vehicle. This makes post production line testing and troubleshooting, as well as service center troubleshooting much easier, than having to deploy a network analyzer and PC. TestPro offers a variety of hot swappable test adapters, for your specific testing needs.
The MMVNA is a compact, customizable, and cost-effective tool for manufacturing or lab testing of components such as raw cable, connectors, patch-cords, or cable harnesses. With numerous test fixtures to suite every application, MMVNA significantly reduces the effort in setting up test environment. Its powerful VNA Manager Pro software provides a wide range of S-parameter selections with unlimited plots, and traceable test reports. You can even configure secondary parameters such as ACR-F, capacitance, inductance, step or impulse response time domain plots, and more!
The Cable Harness Tester AHT-128 offers 128 test points of connectivity and resistance test. Multiple testers can be cascaded to test up to 1024 points. It is a compact and cost-effective PC controlled tool. Cable Harness Tester Manager PC software controls the AHT-128 units to perform testing, allows configuration and setting of test limits, and provides test reports.
AEM offers a number of purpose-built and customized test fixtures that turn your MMVNA or any other VNA into a complete test setup. Ranging from raw cable testing, Non-destructive connecting hardware test using POGO pins, to automotive harness testing, our test fixtures with calibration kits take variability our from the VNA measurements.
