Advantages Of Balanced Dut Evaluation Using Fixture Simulator - Agilent Technologies ENA Series User Manual

Advantages of balanced DUT evaluation using fixture simulator

Balanced device evaluation using the fixture simulator has the following advantages:
• Calibration reference plane can be easily moved to the DUT's terminal after calibration
is performed at the connectors where calibration standards can be connected.
Undesired network can be removed to eliminate measurement errors (port extension,
network de-embedding).
• Characteristics of a DUT, including desired matching circuits, can be obtained easily
(matching circuit embedding, differential matching circuit embedding). Port reference
impedance can be set freely (port reference impedance conversion, differential port
reference impedance conversion).
• Differential mode and common mode signal evaluation (mixed-mode S-parameter
evaluation) can be performed easily (balance-unbalance conversion).
Chapter 7
Fixture Simulator
Example of using fixture simulator
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