Alternate testing of RF transceivers using optimized test stimulus for accurate prediction of system specifications

Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 323-339

  Bhattacharya, Soumendu ^a   Halder, Achintya ^a   Srinivasan, Ganesh ^a   Chatterjee, Abhijit ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate test; Behavioral modeling; Optimization; Periodic bitstreams; RF transceivers

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE TEST; BEHAVIORAL MODELING; PERIODIC BITSTREAMS; RF TRANSCEIVERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIFICATIONS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 17444390880     PISSN: 09238174     EISSN: 15730727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10836-005-6361-9     Document Type: Article

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