Testing | Tuning | Infrastructure | Capabilities

To ensure products are manufactured to your rigorous requirements, CAES offers an extensive infrastructure and support staff dedicated to expedient and accurate testing and tuning of products.

CAES testing and tuning solutions include the design and implementation of automated test equipment, environmental and dynamics testing, TID radiation testing, high power testing (featuring radiated testing), and antenna radiation pattern and gain measurements.

Automated Testing

With an emphasis on automation, CAES test capabilities include hundreds of automated test stations plus automation software and processes that allow CAES to minimize test time and maximize first-pass yield.

Environmental and Dynamics Testing

CAES offers comprehensive test laboratory services including environmental, dynamic, and vibration, testing and analysis, addressing commercial, military, and aerospace requirements for applications including engineering design verification, environmental stress screening, reliability verification and qualification testing.

High Power Test Solutions

CAES engineers are experts in the design and implementation of cooling techniques for high density, tightly-packaged electronic assemblies. CAES couples this capability with specialized test equipment, including high-gamma, load pull resources, and unique, high radiated power, ferrite-lined environmental test chambers.

Antenna Test Ranges

With both indoor anechoic chambers and outdoor pattern test ranges, all of which provide real-time, digitally-captured data, CAES has the capability to quickly and accurately characterize all aspects of antenna performance from HF through W-Band.

Automated Test

CAES reduces product and program costs with a high level of automation in the testing and tuning processes.

Environmental and Dynamics Test

CAES provides complete capabilities for environmental, dynamic, contaminants, and TID radiation testing and analysis.

Antenna Test

Automated, digitally-controlled, anechoic chambers enable rapid and accurate, antenna characterization.

High Power Test

Custom test chambers enable antenna high power testing under simulated altitude conditions.

Antenna Test Ranges

To enable rapid, accurate antenna design and characterization, CAES provides antenna test ranges, highly automated anechoic chambers and an industry leading team of experienced antenna engineers.

With both indoor anechoic chambers and outdoor pattern test ranges, all of which provide real-time, digitally captured data, CAES quickly and accurately characterizes all aspects of antenna performance from high frequency through W-Band. Our suite of anechoic chambers provides broad capabilities for far-field radiation pattern and RCS (radar cross-section) measurements, near-field scanning and high-power testing.

Radiation Pattern Measurement

Automated, digitally-controlled anechoic chambers enable rapid and accurate antenna characterization and provide real-time, digitally-captured data for far field requirements through the W-Band.

Radar Cross Section Measurement

Compact antenna test ranges, custom test bodies, computational electromagnetic software and analysis tools accurately assess and optimize antenna RCS performance.

Near Field Measurement

Near field test chambers deliver pin-point measurements within antenna arrays, and, when combined with computational electromagnetic software and analysis tools, provide optimized antenna array design and test.

High Power Test

Unique, ferrite-lined, RF-shielded environmental test chambers and wideband TWT (traveling-wave tube) or GaN (gallium nitride) RF amplifiers facilitate antenna high-power testing under simulated altitude conditions.

Far Field Measurement

Automated, digitally-controlled, anechoic chambers enable rapid and accurate, antenna characterization.

Near Field Measurement

Near Field Scanners enable optimized design and test of antenna arrays.

Radar Cross Section (RCS) Measurement

Compact ranges, custom test bodies, and experienced antenna design engineers enable optimized antenna RCS performance.

High Power Test and Measurement

Custom test chambers enable antenna high power testing under simulated altitude conditions.

Automated Test and Tune

To reduce customer product and program costs, CAES uniquely employs a high level of automation in the testing and tuning processes.

With an emphasis on automation, CAES test capabilities include hundreds of automated RF SMART™ test stations, plus automation processes and techniques that allow CAES to further minimize test time, enabling volume production of highly reliable products that conform to stringent customer specifications.

Automated testing

24x7 testing capabilities enable CAES to support fast ramps and high volume programs.

Active Compensation

CAES uses an adaptive, automated tuning process to do coarse equalization of the RF chain.

Wafer probing station

CAES’ automated wafer probing station provides a low-cost approach to testing wafers.

Networked factories

CAES' networked factories minimize down-time, improve the harmonization of our manufacturing processes and ultimately reduce product and program costs.

AUTOMATED TEST CASE STUDY

RF Switch Matrix Advanced Routing Test Solution (RF SMART) Reduces Automated Test Time and Station Downtime

CAES manufactures many multiport subsystems. Due to the testing requirements of multiport stations and the use of electromechanical switches, CAES recognized that there had to be a better way of reducing test time and increasing test station downtime. Electromechanical switch reliability, in a robust test environment, drives station down time.

" CAES' Automated Test & Tune capabilities help drive down our program costs.

CAES Customer