Simulating Load Pull with PathWave ADS
Available On demand
Duration: 1 hour
Summary
This session will cover the following topics:
- Load pull simulation basics and Smith Chart region to be sampled
- Contours plots for a specific output power and gain compression point
- Avoid simulation convergence problems
- Investigation on the effects of reflections at the harmonics
- Interpolation of data between measured or simulated points
- Identification of regions where multiple, potentially competing specifications are satisfied
Speaker
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.