aaron_do
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Hi all,
this is related to my question in the RF measurements section. I thought I would post it here since my question seems to be more about RF simulators now.
Basically I simulated a low-pass filter for out-of-band IIP3, where the two tones are outside of the filter band. I found that using a large + moderate signal in a QPSS analysis or two large signals in a PSS analysis gives simulated IIP3 very close to my measurements. However, when using a PSS + PAC analysis with one large tone and one small signal, the simulated IIP3 is significantly better (10 dB) than measurements.
This may have something to do with the interaction between the nonlinearity and the memory in the filter. I was hoping somebody could shed some more light on this, perhaps with some references, and also confirm that this is normal.
thanks, Aaron
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