Comment by leoh

8 months ago

ELI5: what is this used for?

It’s used to create communication test signals.

Say you designed a Bluetooth transceiver chip and need to test the performance under stress conditions: noise, sample clock instability etc.

The WinIQSim software simulates such a signal and uploads it to the AMIQ, which is essentially a high quality digital analog converter.

The analog output will go to an RF signal generator and then to your chip under test.