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Title: Return Loss Measurement & Balun Post by giacomophx on Oct 7th, 2005, 11:31am Hi, I built an ideal balun as in "Measuring S-Parameters of a Differential Mixer" and I am using it to measure the differential/common return loss of a 2 port device. I use spectre. The device is modeled as just 2 50Ohm resistors connected to ground in their center point (so 100 Ohm differential and 25 Ohm common mode). I have connected two ports to the balun: port1 r=100 connected to terminal "d" of the balun port2 r=25 connected to terminal "c" of the balun resistors connected to terminal "p" and "n" respectively. I chose sp analysis and I selected both ports. The result is correct: S11=-300dB S22=-300dB so means perfect matching. If I insted change the value of the two resistors to 80 and 20 respectively (so differential =100 and common mode = 16) the result are wrong: S11=S22=-20.1dB. I was expecting S11=-300dB and S22=-13.1dB. My conclusion is that I can use the balun to measure the S-Parameter only if the DUT is balanced in both the two inputs. Or, is not possible in one analysis calculate the differential/common return loss. Any comments/suggestions are welcome, Giacomo |
Title: Re: Return Loss Measurement & Balun Post by Ken Kundert on Oct 7th, 2005, 11:33pm The SPICE netlist version of the balun was updated back in February because of an error. You aren't, by chance, using an older version in SPICE netlist format? -Ken |
Title: Re: Return Loss Measurement & Balun Post by river on Oct 8th, 2005, 1:25am hi Ken, To simulate differential s-parameter between two nodes, We only need to place a port cell between those two nodes, and then check s11. Am I right? From some meterial, I saw Cadence used a complex circuit which contains cccs and vcvs to simulate differential s-parameter. I believe there must be some reasons for Cadence to use that complex circuit. Could you give me some idea? |
Title: Re: Return Loss Measurement & Balun Post by Ken Kundert on Oct 8th, 2005, 8:56am You can measure the differential S-parameters using a single port connected across the differential inputs, however this does not provide anything in the way of common-mode bias. If you also need to provide for the common-mode bias, you can use the testbench described in http://www.designers-guide.org/Analysis/diff-sp.pdf. -Ken |
Title: Re: Return Loss Measurement & Balun Post by giacomophx on Oct 8th, 2005, 11:59am Hi Ken, I am using this spectre netlist: simulator lang=spectre subckt balun (d c p n) T1 (d 0 p c) transformer n1=2 T2 (d 0 c n) transformer n1=2 ends balun I will send you the entire testbench netlist on monday. Thanks, Giacomo |
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