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Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2011
Applicants:

Darren E. Atkinson, La Habra, CA (US);

Scott A. Avent, Fountain Valley, CA (US);

Inventors:

Darren E. Atkinson, La Habra, CA (US);

Scott A. Avent, Fountain Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:

Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for measuring s-parameters of an N-port device under test (DUT), using an N-port test fixture and a network analyzer. The method includes: measuring calibration errors of the N-port test fixture using a reduced set of N/2 calibration standards; measuring calibration errors due to the network analyzer by calibrating only the network analyzer using analyzer-only calibration standards; isolating test fixture s-parameters errors using results of the analyzer-only calibration standards measurement and the N-port test fixture calibration standard measurement; measuring the s-parameters errors of the DUT; and correcting the s-parameters errors of the DUT corresponding to the isolated test fixture s-parameters errors and the calibration errors of the network analyzer.


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