Test setup for error vector magnitude measurement on WLAN transceivers

Author

Fialho, V. ; Fortes, F. ; Vieira, Marco

Author_Institution

ADEETC, Inst. Super. de Eng. de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

917

Lastpage

920

Abstract

This paper presents a measurement system and experimental examples of error vector magnitude measurements on a wireless local area network receiver under several radio frequency impairments, with emphasis to local oscillator phase noise. An algorithm that cancels the phase and frequency carrier synchronization error is presented. Typical base band figure of merit are obtained under influence of these impairments. The described method allows the experimental calculation of error vector magnitude without a dedicated vector analyzer.

Keywords

oscillators; phase noise; radio transceivers; vectors; wireless LAN; WLAN transceivers; dedicated vector analyzer; error vector magnitude measurement; frequency carrier synchronization error; local oscillator phase noise; measurement system; test setup; wireless local area network receiver; Bit error rate; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Radio frequency; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless LAN; error vector magnitude; phase noise; radio frequency transceiver; signal to noise ratio; symbol error rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seville

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1261-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1259-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463512

Filename

6463512