HONOR continues to showcase its development and advancements in consumer electronics technology, offering a glimpse of its General Innovation Laboratory.
Passive Device Admission Certification Laboratory
The Passive Device Admission Certification Laboratory supports HONOR’s thousands of coded device admission test systems, ranging from tiny passive devices (such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, and crystal oscillators) to hundreds of watts of power integrated circuits (ICs).
It features the industry’s most advanced batch certification capabilities (10-thousand level) and comprehensive testing capabilities across all parameters and environments, covering device materials, device technology, device design simulation, and additional functions. It also integrates device life cycle reliability assessments and failure analysis methods.
HONOR collaborates with the Japan Research Institute on inductor materials to strengthen its competitiveness and process analysis abilities. Currently, capacitors, inductors, MOS, and LEDs possess device simulation capabilities.
They have also guided their suppliers to improve design and development, resulting in a reduction in device height from 0.8mm to 0.65mm on Magic V2 mobile phones and a decrease of 0.15mm in the complete-built unit.
MEMS Accelerometers, IMUs, and Other Inertial Devices Access Certification Laboratory
The consumer electronics company also invests in high-end testing through its laboratory, which is equipped for performance testing, calibration, failure analysis, and other related algorithm validation. It also boasts industry-leading aerospace-grade inertial device testing capabilities, addressing current and future consumer inertial device testing needs over the next 10 years.
HONOR’s ultra-high-frequency vibration exciter is the only terminal company with this testing capability. Additionally, they have developed the industry’s first powered batch testing platform for MEMS inertial devices, enabling device performance verification under terminal-like working conditions.
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Audio Laboratory HI-FI Laboratory
The HI-FI Laboratory is an experiential area for subjective effects, featuring 11.2-channel stereo media playback capabilities. It serves as a benchmark environment for audio experience design, allowing us to evaluate audio effects in this room.
- Anechoic Chamber – used to evaluate voice call quality by simulating real-life noise in the chamber, as well as testing the noise reduction performance of mobile phones to ensure clear conversations in any environment.
- Safety Testing – used to test the sound’s safety level, protecting the user’s hearing by measuring the headphones’ loudness in the room and ensuring that products meet safety standards.
- Smart Accessories – used for acoustic performance testing of headphone products to measure basic acoustic parameters and noise playbacks.
- Recording and Video – used for directional testing of recording and video. Using a turntable, it evaluates a mobile phone’s sound reception from different directions.
- Intelligent Wake Up Lab – using an artificial head, speakers play different types of noise to simulate different environment sounds, such as crossroad, train station, office room, etc. The artificial head simulates different people saying “wake-up words” to test the wake-up success rate and false acceptance rate.
- Wind Lab – this lab can simulate up to level 7 wind to evaluate a device’s wind noise cancellation effect.
Antenna Laboratory
You may not see it, but a mobile phone contains many internal antennas, including a cellular antenna, Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth, among others. Using a specialized chamber, HONOR can test a mobile phone’s signal absorption capabilities and calculate its performance.
There are also head-and-hand models to simulate free space, as well as one-hand and two-hand modes, to meet the requirements of customers worldwide.
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Laboratory
Since a mobile phone contains several antennas within a single handset, this also means our body can absorb those signals, which are technically radiations (RF), and absorbing too much can be harmful. To ensure they meet safe limits, HONOR devices comply with the Conformité Européenne (CE) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) test standards, as well as Chinese standards.