Mixed-signal and mixed-domain instrumentation for emerging technology device characterization

This paper deals with new and emerging instrumentation for characterization of emerging technologies including RF-to-DC and Analog-to-Digital Conversion. These new emerging technologies will impose measurement in a mixture of domains, including RF and DC simultaneously, case of RF-DC converters that are used heavily in Wireless Power Transmission and RFID circuits, and Analog and Digital, normally called mixed-signal that are used in Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio (CR) transceivers. The paper presents the main limitations present in necessary measurement test benches and then discusses specific approaches for instrumentation that is able to realize those measurement procedures. Finally, the characterization and modelling aspects will also be addressed.