Multiport measurement systems extend to 9GHz: News from Anritsu (UK)

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Anritsu has added the MS4624x series to its Scorpion family of vector network measurement systems (VNMS), increasing the Scorpion's frequency range to 9GHz. The new family is available in two-, three- and four-port configurations for conducting fast and highly accurate passband and higher frequency out-of-band rejection measurements on both single-ended and balanced devices, including those used in 3G handsets. With the new 9GHz models, the Scorpion family offers a high level of versatility through a single connection to satisfy next-generation filter, amplifier, mixer, power amplifier and multiport requirements.

The MS4624x series has powerful simulation tools for mixed-mode S-parameters, embedding/de-embedding and arbitrary impedance.

De-embedding utilities provide compensation techniques for typical test-fixture environments to further enhance the measurement accuracy, while integrated embedding utilities, consisting of an extensive library of circuit primitives, reduce time-to-market and increase yield when simulating the final matched behaviour of components.

The MS4624x's arbitrary impedance transformations also accurately handle non-50ohm measurement scenarios typically associated with balanced devices, making the VNMS well suited for applications requiring ripple, insertion loss and amplitude imbalance accuracy of the order of +/-0.1dB.

The MS4624x VNMS typically offer 150us/point speed, 125dB dynamic range and +/-0.03dB uncertainties for passband S21 measurements.

Innovative options, including group delay, time domain, gain compression, harmonics, noise figure and intermodulation distortion, additionally provide the new models with the versatility to characterise amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers and other multiport modules.

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News Release from: Anritsu (UK) Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 October 2002

Multiport measurement systems extend to 9GHz

Anritsu has added the MS4624x series to its Scorpion family of vector network measurement systems (VNMS), increasing the Scorpion's frequency range to 9GHz.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

News Release from: Anritsu (UK)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 October 2002