Applying Pre-Compensation to Flatten Response

When generating wideband signals, minor impedance discontinuities in the interconnect cables can affect the amplitude and phase flatness. At the same time, as signal frequencies increase, they can be subject to the analog bandwidth and sinx/x rolloff characteristics of the arbitrary waverform generator.  This white paper describes how a pre-compensation plug-in enables automatic generation of a correction filter that can be applied to generated waveforms, especially wideband RF signals.