{"title":"EVM measurement of RF ZigBee transceivers using standard digital ATE","authors":"T. Vayssade, F. Azaïs, L. Latorre, F. Lefèvre","doi":"10.1109/DFT50435.2020.9250900","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper targets the challenging issue of production test cost reduction for RF circuits. More specifically, it proposes a low-cost solution to perform EVM measurement of ZigBee transceivers using only a standard digital test equipment. The approach is based on 1-bit under-sampled acquisition of the RF modulated-signal by a digital tester channel associated with a specifically-tailored processing algorithm. The different steps of the post-processing algorithm are detailed in the paper. Hardware experimental results obtained on both a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) that emulates the circuit-under-test and on an actual ZigBee transceiver IC are presented.","PeriodicalId":340119,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT)","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT50435.2020.9250900","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper targets the challenging issue of production test cost reduction for RF circuits. More specifically, it proposes a low-cost solution to perform EVM measurement of ZigBee transceivers using only a standard digital test equipment. The approach is based on 1-bit under-sampled acquisition of the RF modulated-signal by a digital tester channel associated with a specifically-tailored processing algorithm. The different steps of the post-processing algorithm are detailed in the paper. Hardware experimental results obtained on both a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) that emulates the circuit-under-test and on an actual ZigBee transceiver IC are presented.