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

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.