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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2011.22.12.1172

Analysis of Adjacent-Channel Leakage-Ratio of Wide-Band Power Amplifiers through Multi-Tone Signals with Statistical Similarity  

Park, Young-Cheol (Department of Electronics Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
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Abstract
In this paper, a design method of multi-tone signals for the measurement of adjacent-channel power-ratios on power amplifiers is suggested. Because most tests for power amplifiers in production are performed with single-tone signals, its testing accuracy is not guaranteed as the signal complexity increases. Therefore, the application of multi-tone signals to the testing is suggested by optimized complex coefficients of each tones for the best statistical similarity to the original modulated signal. From the verification, a 802.11a signal was replaced with a multi-tone signal of N=10, with the complex coefficients generated by the suggested method. The resulting measurements on the ACLR of 2.4 GHz power amplifier showed successful accuracy of less than 1 dB discrepancy.
Keywords
Adjacent-Channel Power-Ratio; Power Amplifier;
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