New-Tech Europe | May 2017

Figure 5. VSS supports load pull based on digitally-modulated active devices like power transistors to generate constant contours for communication performance metrics such as ACPR and EVM.

(SC-FDMA) upload (UL).

to VSS is further enabled with new libraries and capabilities introduced in V13. The VSS software now provides LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) support for carrier aggregation of intra-band and inter-band component carriers and 5G candidate modulated waveforms (Figure 6) such as filter-bank multicarrier (FBMC), generalized frequency-division multiplexing (GFDM), and filtered orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). These technologies take advantage of faster processing speeds to offer higher data rates and are therefore being considered to replace OFDM download (DL) and single-carrier frequency-division multiple access

designers address these linearity and efficiency requirements, Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) system design software supports load pull based on digitally-modulated active devices like power transistors to generate constant contours for communication performance metrics such as adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR), error vector magnitude (EVM), and bit error rate (BER) using either measured load- pull data or a nonlinear behavioral model based on measured or simulated circuit/active device data (Figure 5). Models and Libraries System and PA simulation for communication applications specific

Measurements and Results

For sharing and re-using results in subsequent simulations, a new output file measurement feature in VSS writes a compatible nonlinear behavioral model text file that includes information on fundamental input, fundamental output, intermodulation (IM3) products (for two-tone simulations), harmonics (for one-tone simulations), S11, S22, characteristic input and output impedances, and noise figure. In addition, signal heritage information obtained from the RF Inspector (RFI) technology within VSS can be exported to an .xml file. Even before a simulation is

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