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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848488
