Advances in Linear and Non-Linear Modeling for Improved Microwave Design

This paper addresses two areas of improvement to microwave linear and non-linear modeling for improved board-based designs using surface mount components. The first area concerns best-practice application examples of electromagnetic (EM) analysis combined with accurate broad-band parasitic models. The second area that is covered in this paper is to study the *X-Parameter modeling technique used in characterizing nonlinear devices compared to traditional compact modeling techniques.