A Synthetic Vector Network Analyzing Measurement System

Author

Isaksson, Magnus ; Zenteno, Efrain

Author_Institution

Center of Radio Freq. Meas. Technol., ATM/Electron., Math., & Natural Sci., Univ. of Gavle, Gävle, Sweden

Volume

60

Issue

6

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2154

Lastpage

2161

Abstract

In this paper, a synthetic vector network analyzing measurement system is presented. The system is based on a hardware setup, including a signal generator and a vector signal analyzer, with the vector network analyzing functionality implemented in the software. The measurements of the proposed system demonstrated comparable performance in terms of accuracy and speed compared with a modern traditional vector network analyzer, but it is more flexible due to its inherent software implementation. The proposed system´s ability to measure nonlinear phenomena is addressed and discussed, and some preliminary results are given.

Keywords

microwave measurement; network analysers; signal generators; signal generator; synthetic vector network analyzing measurement system; vector signal analyzer; Bandwidth; Distortion measurement; Hardware; Instruments; Phase measurement; Scattering parameters; Semiconductor device measurement; Nonlinear; S-parameters; synthetic instrument (SI); vector network analyzer (VNA); virtual instrument (VI);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2011.2113132

Filename

5724300