How to Setup and Run Load Pull Simulations: The Basics
Duration: 60 minutes
Available On-Demand
Summary
Load Pull is an important step in the design of Power Amplifiers. It helps you see what key specifications like output power, efficiency and gain could be attained from a device and determine the optimal load impedance. The presentation shows how to set up and run simple load pull simulations and examine the results.
Key learnings:
- The basics of load pull
- How to run a sequence of load pull simulations
- How to adjust parameters in your setup and analyse the results
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.