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Digital Generation of Signals for Low Cost RF BIST
Freiburg, Germany May 20-May 24
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ETS.2007.1812th IEEE European Test Symposium (ET ...
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Marcelo Negreiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Luigi Carro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Altamiro A. Susin, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
RF test signals are a requirement for the implementation of effective BIST techniques in transceivers. In this work a method to encode a binary signal with the desired RF frequency is presented. The approach employs high-pass sigma delta modulators, in contrast to conventional low-pass or band-pass approaches, allowing signal generation close to the Nyquist limit of FS/2 (FS=Sampling Frequency). As a digital signal is used, only a 1-bit DAC is needed, reducing test costs. Practical results using a 3Gbps transceiver illustrate the performance achievable by the method.
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Marcelo Negreiros, Luigi Carro, Altamiro A. Susin, "Digital Generation of Signals for Low Cost RF BIST," ets, pp.49-54, 12th IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS'07), 2007
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