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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2000
David VerNon Blackham, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus to determine scattering coefficients for a device under test (DUT) using a vector network analyzer (VNA) is disclosed. Traditionally, for a DUT having P ports, all combinations of reflective and transmission coefficients are measured and calculated. This is true even for reciprocal devices where S =S because, during the measurement, the source and load matches vary. However, the present invention teaches that, for reciprocal devices, only one of the two transmission coefficients between a first port and a second port need be measured. Under the inventive technique, error terms are removed from the measured scattering coefficients. Then, the source and the load matches may be normalized to a normalization match value. The normalization process removes the differences of the source and the load matches. Accordingly, for reciprocal devices, only one of two reciprocal transmission coefficients need be measured to determine the transmission coefficients for both directions between the first and the second port. The reduction of the measurement requirement reduces the amount of hardware required for a VNA, time required to characterize a DUT, or both.