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Cascade is a program for analyzing the noise and distortion performance
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of a cascade of elements in an electronic system. A typical application
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of cascade is the analysis of a receiver. A text description of the
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receiver block diagram consisting of things like amplifiers, mixers,
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and filters is entered into cascade. Each element is characterized
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by its gain and optionally noise figure, and third order intercept
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point. The program then analyzes the system and produces a report
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detailing the performance at each stage.
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A summary is produced which shows the relative contributions to the
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total system performance of each block. This allows easy identification
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of what limits system performance.
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WWW: http://rfcascade.sourceforge.net/
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