Basic RF Measurements and Terminology

Mr. Wei Lin
Senior RF Hardware Design Engineer National Instruments, Santa Rosa, CA

Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A
4:00 PM

Abstract - RF and wireless communications technology are standard in everyday device design. Understanding the fundamentals of RF systems and some basic RF Measurements and terminology is critical to your success in designing and testing RF devices. This presentation is going to introduce you some fundamental RF concepts and measurements. We will cover some RF Basic Terminology, Analog and Digital Modulation, some specific topics of common measurement applications like EVM, Phase Noise, Linearity and so on. Further, we will go over different types of measurement instruments and review each one’s advantage and disadvantage in RF application.

Mr. Wei Lin graduated from University of California, Davis in 2012 with a master’s degree of electrical engineering major. After graduation, he joined National Instruments as a RF hardware design engineer. He has been working as a designer, characterization and verification roles on the highperformance vector signal transceiver products from National Instruments.