Designing marketable 6G measurement tools presents technical and logistical challenges, including generating and capturing signals in new spectrum allocations with high speed and low latency, managing wide bandwidths, and ensuring system-level synchronization. Overcoming these challenges requires advances in hardware design and implementation of instrumentation tools tailored for 6G test environments.
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Gopalakrishnan, S., Mamidanna, M. & Erickson, B. Hardware design challenges for marketable 6G measurement tools. Nat Rev Electr Eng 2, 588–589 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-025-00205-2
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