A Fully-Automated Measurement System for 77-GHz Mixers

Author

Wagner, C. ; Treml, M. ; Hartmann, M. ; Stelzer, A. ; Jaeger, H.

Author_Institution

Johannes Kepler Univ., Linz

fYear

2007

fDate

1-3 May 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A fully-automated measurement system for 77-GHz mixers is presented. Power and frequency of LO signal plus up to three RF signals can accurately be configured. The RF signals are combined before being applied to the device under test (DUT) making single and dual tone measurements possible combined with the emulation of a blocking signal as important for transceiver applications. Thus, for the first time to the author´s knowledge, it is possible to gain detailed insight into the large-signal behaviour of 77-GHz mixer circuits using an integrated low-cost solution.

Keywords

automatic test equipment; bipolar MIMIC; integrated circuit testing; millimetre wave mixers; transceivers; LO signal; RF signals; blocking signal emulation; dual tone measurements; frequency 77 GHz; fully-automated measurement system; mixer circuits; transceiver applications; Emulation; Germanium silicon alloys; Integrated circuit measurements; Power generation; RF signals; Radar applications; Radio frequency; Signal generators; Silicon germanium; Voltage-controlled oscillators; IP2; IP3; blocking signal; multi-tone measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2007. IMTC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Warsaw

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0588-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2007.379425

Filename

4258469