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Measurement Considerations for Automotive Radar - Microwave Journal

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Signal Upconversion<br />

Pros and Cons<br />

Pros<br />

• Much better choice <strong>for</strong> modulated signals<br />

• Can support wide bandwidth signals<br />

• Reasonable output power<br />

Cons<br />

• Higher-complexity test setup – two sources required<br />

• Limited choices among off-the-shelf upconverters<br />

• Very limited amplitude control<br />

• Creates images, harmonic, sub-harmonic and non-harmonic<br />

spurious signals<br />

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Aerospace & Defense<br />

© Agilent Technologies 2013

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