Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems Année : 2026

Low-cost Testing of 2.4GHz Receiver on Standard Digital ATE: Practical Implementation

Résumé

In this paper, we present the implementation of a low-cost solution for the test of 2.4GHz receivers on a standard Automatic test Equipment (ATE). The approach relies on the use of a customized binary signal generated by a digital tester channel as the test stimulus. This binary signal is specifically defined such that it presents similar spectral characteristics in the frequency band of the Device Under Test (DUT) as a conventional analog test stimulus generated by an RF tester channel. Dedicated scripts are developed that permit (i) the selection of an appropriate sampling frequency for the digital channel to avoid spectral corruption in the DUT frequency band, and (ii) the automatic conversion of the I/Q data computed by the ATE in case of a conventional RF stimulus into a binary sequence to be stored in the vector memory of the digital tester channel. Experimental results are provided that validate the efficiency of the proposed solution, under different communication protocols (ZigBee and Bluetooth Low Energy) and signal strengths.

Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
TCAD_HAL.pdf (1.32 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origine Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Licence

Dates et versions

lirmm-05584995 , version 1 (08-04-2026)

Licence

Identifiants

Citer

Thibault Vayssade, Kamilia Tahraoui, François Lefèvre, Laurent Latorre, Florence Azaïs. Low-cost Testing of 2.4GHz Receiver on Standard Digital ATE: Practical Implementation. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, In press, pp.1-1. ⟨10.1109/TCAD.2026.3680795⟩. ⟨lirmm-05584995⟩
5 Consultations
8 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

  • More