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ExpEriMEntal rEsults
8.1 Introduction
is chapter presents the experimental results of testing the Mini-
Circuit power amplifier using Agilent equipment. VSA software and
MATLAB are used for this experiment. e VSA software is used
for capturing the samples from the Agilent equipment. ere are two
main pieces of equipment are used for this testing, a vector signal
generator and a vector signal analyzer. e first is used for the dig-
ital-to-analog converter (DAC) and upconversion; and the second is
used for the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and downconversion.
MATLAB sends the input samples and receives the output samples
from the power amplifier (PA) through the vector signal analyzer
(VSA) software. ese input and output samples can be ...