Awr’s Support of Polyharmonic Distortion and Nonlinear Behavioral Models

Linear and nonlinear device models are the building blocks of most RF and microwave designs. S-parameters are often used to represent linear devices. As a “black-box” model, they can easily be obtained using a vector network analyzer and distributed for simulation. S-parameters use superposition to equate the linear relationship between incident and refl ected waves at all of the device’s ports. Nonlinear devices, however, distort waveforms such that their behavior cannot be represented through superposition or S-parameters.