Title
Using Open-Source Software QucsStudio to Design a Microwave Amplifier for SDR Applications
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
This paper presents the analysis and design of a microwave amplifier for Software-Defined Radio (SDR) applications. The amplifier is implemented using the Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor technology (HBT-MMG3014NT1), designed to have the maximum transducer gain by applying distributed matching circuit elements. The amplifier is designed by using the open-source software QucsStudio (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator), with a resonance frequency design at 1.9 GHz. Then it is fabricated on a commercial FR4 substrate. The measurement results have been shown that the proposed amplifier design achieves 10.4 dB of gain at 1.9 GHz, and it has an acceptable broadband frequency response from 1.06 GHz up to 1.96 GHz with a 10 dB of attenuation. The amplifier has been tested with a primary amplitude modulation using the SDR HackRF one device.
Start page
177
End page
181
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85124353113
Resource of which it is part
2021 IEEE URUCON, URUCON 2021
ISBN of the container
9781665424431
Conference
2021 IEEE URUCON, URUCON 2021
Sources of information:
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