Design of Power Amplifier Test Signals with a User-Defined Multisine

Cellular radio communication involves wireless transmission and reception of signals at radio frequencies (RF). Base stations house equipment critical to the transmission and reception of signals. Power amplifier (PA) is a crucial element in base station assembly. PAs are expensive, take up space and dissipate heat. Of all the elements in the base station, it is difficult to design and operate a power amplifier. New designs of power amplifiers are constantly tested. One of the most important components required to perform this test successfully is a circuit simulator model of an entire communication system that generates a standard test signal. Standard test signals 524,288 data points in length require 1080 hours to complete one test of a PA model. In order to reduce the time taken to complete one test, a 'simulated test signal,' was generated. The objective of this study is to develop an algorithm to generate this 'simulated' test signal such that its characteristics match that of the 'standard' test signal.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2004

Author dc:creator

• Nagarajan, Preeti

Contributors dc:contributor

• McNeill, Perry
• Kozak, Michael R.
• Pinckley, Danny
• Grubbs, Albert B.

• Power amplifiers.
• standard test signal
• circuit simulator model
• base station
• user-defined amplitude spectrum
• radio frequencies

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Nagarajan, Preeti
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 55686143
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4454/
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