A mathematica-based approach to designing receiver and transmitter gain tables

This paper describes a few intrinsic mathematica functions particularly well suited for designing a gain line up by exhaustively searching through all possible gain states of a given architecture. The key mathematica function is the "outer" function. Armed with the proper performance functions and input data, the Outer function fully characterizes a given architecture in one command. Since the arguments and operators for the Outer function are lists, the approach is extremely flexible. For example, one can quickly assess architectural changes simply by manipulating lists.