Advanced Load Pull Simulation and Analysis Techniques
Duration: 59 minutes
Available On-Demand
Summary
Recent improvements have been made with respect to load pull simulation in PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS). This session will show methods of sweeping power up to an X-dB gain compression point (but not beyond), graphically selecting regions of the Smith chart, and analysing results for best Doherty performance.
Key learnings:
- Load pull simulation up to an X-dB gain compression point.
- How to graphically specify the loads to be sampled.
- How to analyse the results for best Doherty performance.
Speakers
Andy Howard
Senior Applications Engineer
Keysight Technologies
Andy Howard, Senior Applications Engineer, has been with Keysight since 1985. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley, B.S. E.E., 1983, and M.S. E.E., 1985. He was a visiting researcher for one year in Japan while a graduate student, and is fluent in Japanese. He has published more than 20 magazine articles, HP or Agilent seminar papers, and application notes. He has created hundreds of ADS examples, and is currently focused primarily on various power amplifier simulations (load pull, envelope tracking, optimisations, etc.) He has also worked on several switched-mode power supply simulations.