Frequency planning wizard
17 April 2013
Design Automation
RFP is an innovative new frequency planning wizard within AWR’s Visual System Simulator (VSS) that enables engineers to efficiently determine spurious free bandwidths when designing complex radio communications systems.
Whether developing satellite communication, cellular, or military radio links, RFP provides greater insight into unwanted signals or spurs generated in a specified bandwidth. As well as analysing spurs generated by a line-up of mixers, the tool analyses the entire RF lineup of common components (amplifiers, mixers, filters, etc.) found in radio communication links.
In addition to spur analysis, RFP gives engineers the first cut of cascaded measurements such as noise figure (NF), gain compression (P1dB), signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and third-order intermodulation (IM3), as well as spurious-free dynamic range. Its seamless integration with VSS means that, with a single mouse click, the RF link constructed in RFP is automatically translated to a VSS system diagram.
VSS can then be used to account for mismatch between components, account for noise at image frequency, and run yield analysis and optimisation. Engineers then have a choice of modulated signals and can perform, for example, error vector magnitude (EVM), adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) and bit error rate (BER) measurements.
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