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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Two-Tone Signal Generation for ADC Testing

Keisuke KATO, Fumitaka ABE, Kazuyuki WAKABAYASHI, Chuan GAO, Takafumi YAMADA, Haruo KOBAYASHI, Osamu KOBAYASHI, Kiichi NIITSU

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This paper describes algorithms for generating low intermodulation-distortion (IMD) two-tone sinewaves, for such as communication application ADC testing, using an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) or a multi-bit ΣΔ DAC inside an SoC. The nonlinearity of the DAC generates distortion components, and we propose here eight methods to precompensate for the IMD using DSP algorithms and produce low-IMD two-tone signals. Theoretical analysis, simulation, and experimental results all demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E96-C No.6 pp.850-858
Publication Date
2013/06/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E96.C.850
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies)
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Authors

Keisuke KATO
  Gunma University
Fumitaka ABE
  Gunma University
Kazuyuki WAKABAYASHI
  Gunma University
Chuan GAO
  Gunma University
Takafumi YAMADA
  Gunma University
Haruo KOBAYASHI
  Gunma University
Osamu KOBAYASHI
  Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center(STARC)
Kiichi NIITSU
  Nagoya University

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