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Agilent Introduces Highest- Performing 67 GHz Vector Network Analyzer
The firm’s analyzer features industry’s first four-port 110 GHz single-sweep solution for millimeter-wave measurements.
Agilent Technologies has revealed what it claims is the world’s highest performing 67 GHz PNA-X Series vector network analyzer (VNA).
The new N5247A 67 GHz PNA-X allows engineers, working up to 67 GHz, to benefit from Agilent’s single-connection, multiple-measurement, PNA-X platform. This level of performance makes it possible for the N5247A PNA-X to be used in the widest range of microwave applications, including active device characterization and tests; device modeling; high-speed digital; and material research.
The N5247A PNA-X delivers +10 dBm output power; 110 dB system dynamic range; and a 0.1 dB receiver compression point of +11 dBm specified at 67 GHz. These specifications are 8 dB more output power and 7 dB more dynamic range than any other VNA in the industry. This unmatched performance enables the N5247A PNA-X to provide the world’s most accurate linear and nonlinear active component characterization in a single instrument.
Like all Agilent PNA-X models, the N5247A features clean internal dual sources, a built-in combiner and path switches. These features enable a unique single-connection solution for S-parameters, noise figure and intermodulation distortion (IMD) measurements. It also makes it possible to perform many other measurements that are required for
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testing active devices up to 67 GHz. This includes pulse; gain compression; harmonics and spectrum for amplifiers; mixers; and frequency converters.
Traditionally, similar tasks have required multiple test instruments. By integrating the capabilities of a full rack of equipment into a single instrument, the 67 GHz PNA-X reduces equipment count by 50 percent and decreases test time by a factor of four to 20 times. A single contact solution for on-wafer tests eliminates the need for multiple probe contacts and operator intervention, enabling the most accurate characterization and reliable wire-bonding.
A key feature of the N5247A PNA-X is its ability to be expanded from a 10 MHz to a 2- or 4-port 110 GHz single-sweep mm-wave solution. The solution provides power leveling, true differential, and frequency converter measurement capabilities.
As the industry’s first 4-port, 110 GHz single-sweep solution, the N5247A can characterize mixers/ converters and differential devices with continuous measurements over the entire operating frequency range. Providing superior performance and reduced cost of ownership, the 110 GHz PNA-X mm-wave solution offers a direct replacement for the industry- standard 8510XF broadband 110 GHz system.
“Agilent is committed to offering the industry’s most integrated, high-performance, high-frequency network analyzer with quality as the top priority,” said Gregg Peters, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Component Test Division. “The new 67 GHz PNA-X delivers on this goal and enables today’s engineers and engineering managers to meet both their budgetary constraints and measurement needs.”
Agilent also is releasing new features for its award-winning nonlinear vector network analysis (NVNA) software that runs on the PNA-X platform. The NVNA measures X-parameters*, a new category of nonlinear network parameters for deterministic, high-frequency design, that can be used to characterize both a components’ linear and nonlinear behavior. New X-parameter measurements include:
* Two-tone X-parameter measurements -- for measuring amplitude and phase of all mixing products that occur around the fundamental frequency and the harmonics when two large
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