Evaluation of SystemC-AMS modeling capabilities of RF front-end non-linearities: satellite receiver case study

Author

Khouri, Rami ; Nicolle, Benjamin ; Da Silva, Lucas Alves ; Tatinian, William ; Jacquemod, Gilles

Author_Institution

CNRS, Univ. of Nice, Nice, France

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, SystemC-AMS modeling capabilities of RF non-linear behaviors are studied. Thus, based on a satellite receiver case-study, SystemC-AMS simulation results are compared to several classical system-level simulation approaches and to measurements. It appears that SystemC-AMS allows a good compromise between modeling accuracy and simulation execution-time speed. Moreover, the modeled RF front-end can be used for full system-level simulation of the RF receiver, including the digital and middleware parts.

Keywords

discrete event simulation; hardware description languages; middleware; radio receivers; RF front-end nonlinearities; RF receiver; SystemC-AMS modeling; SystemC-AMS simulation; modeling accuracy; satellite receiver; simulation execution-time speed; system-level simulation; Artificial satellites; Circuits; Computer aided software engineering; Interference; Middleware; RF signals; Radio frequency; Satellite broadcasting; Switches; TV; RF and mixed-signal; RF nonlinearities; Satellite receiver; SystemC-AMS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Specification & Design Languages, 2009. FDL 2009. Forum on

Conference_Location

Sophia Antipolis

ISSN

1636-9874

Electronic_ISBN

1636-9874

Type

conf

Filename

5404044