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Low-Cost Production Testing of Wireless Transmitters
Hyderabad, India January 03-January 07
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLSID.2006.11319th International Conference on VLSI ...
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Achintya Halder, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abhijit Chatterjee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Production testing of wireless transmit systems incurs high test cost primarily due to the need for using lengthy bit-sequences for testing critical specifications, such as adjacent-channel-power ratio (ACPR) and error-vector-magnitude (EVM). Given the production test sequence for measuring multiple specifications of a transmitter-under-test, switching from one test hardware setup to the next, impacts test time. In this paper, anew test methodology for wireless transmitters is demonstrated, in which a single stimulus is used to test multiple frequency-domain and modulation-domain transmitter specifications in a significantly short test time. In the proposed test method, a multi-tone stimulus is applied at the baseband of the transmitter-under-test; the corresponding spectral test response at the RF output of the transmitter is analyzed for predicting the transmitter specifications using an alternate testing framework. Pass/fail decisions are made using the predicted specification values. Experimental data for a 1.575 GHz digital-IF transmitter prototype is presented.
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Achintya Halder, Abhijit Chatterjee, "Low-Cost Production Testing of Wireless Transmitters," vlsid, pp.437-442, 19th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 5th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'06), 2006
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