Hi All,

I want to plot the input impedance ( in RF Port side) of a passive switching Mixer [2-Phase i.e. 2- 180 degree out of phase non-over lapping LOs with rise and fall time of 1 fs & Two switches Loaded with   Resistors of  50 Ohm at the IF ports] with respect to Frequency.

LO frequency was kept 1 GHz and the RF input frequency is swept from 0 to 5 GHz. The RF port impedance is kept at 50 ohm. Also I used analogLib delay element to generate 180 degree out-of pahse 2nd LO.

From theory I know this input impeadnce at the RF port will be a Frequency translated version of the IF side Impedance. But since I am using simple resistor at the IF side the RF side impedance will be the same resistor i.e 50 Ohm

I did PSS and PSP analysis and then I plotted the S11 but I got 0dB across  the frequency instead of getting a very large -ve value !!

Can anybody please tell me Where I am going wrong in doing the simulation ?

I have attached the circuit schematic.

My Netlist is as Below:--

// Library name: PASSIVE_MIXER
// Cell name: IN_IMPEDANCE
// View name: schematic
V0 (net7 0) vsource type=pulse pacmag=1 pacphase=0 val0=1 val1=0 period=1n \
       delay=0 rise=1f fall=1f width=500.0p
PORT0 (net1 0) port r=50 num=1 type=sine freq=frf dbm=prf fundname="rf"
DELAY0 (net033 0 net7 0) delay td=500.0p gain=1.0
R1 (IF_N 0) resistor r=50
R0 (IF_P 0) resistor r=50
SW1 (IF_N net1 0 net033) relay vt1=0 vt2=1 ropen=1T rclosed=1.0
SW2 (IF_P net1 0 net7) relay vt1=0 vt2=1 ropen=1T rclosed=1.0

simulatorOptions options reltol=1e-3 vabstol=1e-6 iabstol=1e-12 temp=27 \
   tnom=27 scalem=1.0 scale=1.0 gmin=1e-12 rforce=1 maxnotes=5 maxwarns=5 \
   digits=5 cols=80 pivrel=1e-3 ckptclock=1800 \
   sensfile="../psf/sens.output" checklimitdest=psf
pss  pss  fund=500M  harms=51  errpreset=moderate  annotate=status
psp  psp  sweeptype=absolute  start=0  stop=5G  step=100M
+    portharmsvec=[0]  ports=[PORT0]  donoise=no  annotate=status
modelParameter info what=models where=rawfile
element info what=inst where=rawfile
outputParameter info what=output where=rawfile
designParamVals info what=parameters where=rawfile
primitives info what=primitives where=rawfile
subckts info what=subckts  where=rawfile
saveOptions options save=allpub

Thanks,
Your reason may be valid but why the switch will be always open ??