Affiliation:
1. ISETCOM de Tunis and CIRTA’COM/SUPCOM, Cité Technologique des Communications, Tunisia
Abstract
This chapter describes some basic characteristic responses that must be known for each Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits. The main parameters such Return Loss, Insertion Losses or Gain, Power at 1dB compression, InterModulation Products or Noise Figure are very important and have to be measured before using the device in final applications. Basic rules of Test and Measurement in RF and Microwaves, as well for characterization on benches as for high volume production using Automatic Test Equipments installed in test platforms, are summarized for helping today’s test engineers to develop their own test solutions. The device, that was characterized on bench and tested in production environment, is a monolithic, integrated low noise amplifier (LNA) and mixer usable in RF receiver Front-End applications for Personal Communications functioning on frequency wideband between 0.1 and 2.0 GHz.
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