Horror Vacui
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I have read the following sentence in [1], what I do not agree with and I would like to know what do I miss in interpretation/context or in technical knowledge: "A RMS power detection is more useful than peak power detection because it can measure a modulated signal independent of its waveform shape."
Modulation schemes in general rely on amplitude, phase or frequency changes vs time. I do not see how is the sentence above true. Even a peak detector can follow the amplitude changes, while no power/peak detector can detect change in phase or frequency.
I tend to interpret "measure" as demodulate, since anything can be measured with a measurement block, and the sentence would not convey information.
What do you think about it? Do you agree with the citation?
[1] U. R. Pfeiffer and D. Goren, “A 20 dBm fully-integrated 60 GHz SiGe power amplifier with automatic level control,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1455–1463, 2007.
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