How to Test Power Amplifiers with Modulated Signals
Testing power amplifiers with modulated signals on a VNA
Testing a power amplifier (PA) with modulated signals to ensure compliance with 5G New Radio (NR) standards requires wideband, calibrated vector signal generation and signal analysis. A single testbed with a vector network analyzer (VNA), vector signal generator (VSG), and multiple measurement software applications provides fully-calibrated signal generation and analysis.
The measurement software applications enable accurate adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) and low residual error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements on the VNA. During testing, the engineer operates multiple measurement applications without changing the configuration of the test setup.
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