Concurrent RF Test Using Optimized Modulated RF Stimuli

  • Authors:
  • Sasikumar Cherubal;Ram Voorakaranam;Abhijit Chatterjee;John Mclaughlin;Jason L. Smith;David M. Majernik

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '04 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

With proliferation in wireless applications, RFcircuitry is being included in a large number ofIntegrated Circuit (IC) designs. The testing of RFdevices has become increasingly expensive due to thehigh cost of RF testers as well as the test times for RFcircuits. The use of a new concurrent test methodologyreduces RF test time by measuring multiple RFparameters in parallel using modulated RF stimuli.Experimental results on a GaAs Low-Noise Amplifier(LNA) are described.