• DocumentCode
    171376
  • Title

    Automatic characterization of RF DACs for software defined radio applications

  • Author

    Ribeiro, Diogo C. ; Cruz, Pedro Miguel ; Prata, Antonio ; Carvalho, Nelson

  • Author_Institution
    DETI, Univ. de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    1-6 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper it will be shown a way to characterize RF Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) by means of Scattering Parameters. This allows an RF engineer, to understand which are the mismatches of a specific device relatively to its ideal behavior. Several measurement results will be presented for different DAC configurations and compared with ideal responses.
  • Keywords
    S-parameters; digital-analogue conversion; software radio; RF DAC; RF digital to analog converters; scattering parameters; software defined radio; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency measurement; Generators; Impedance matching; Radio frequency; RF DACs; SDR; mixed-signal;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Tampa, FL
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848488
  • Filename
    6848488