resolved measurements that resulted a the conference paper Gaboriau et al. [36] published late 2018.
During the course of this work a lot of time was dedicated to the development of the customizable diagnostics software. It is a small scale project yet it succeeded in having a fairly intuitive GUI and in its modular approach. It can be accessed and used by anyone in it’s Git repository [29].
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Appendix A
Technical Datasheets
The calibration of the RF probe used to measure the source current is provided by the calibration certifi- cate bellow