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NM310S Product Brochure: Nonlinear Starter Kit For R&S VNA
1. NM310S Nonlinear Starter Kit
for your R&S VNA
Make your first steps in the nonlinear world
Do you want to...
learn about the latest large-signal characterisation techniques?
experience the power of large-signal measurements with limited budget?
NMDG NV
C. van Kerckhovenstraat 110 Bldg 5
B-2880 Bornem, Belgium - Europe
better understand your RF diodes, transistors under RF conditions?
Tel. +32 (0) 3 890 46 12
Fax +32 (0) 3 890 46 29 see why your power amplifier is not performing as predicted?
Email: info@nmdg.be
know how reliable your devices are under realistic conditions?
www.nmdg.be
September 2011
2.
3. Introduction
Your nonlinear problem is our business
The business of NMDG is to assist R&D, design, test engineers and instrumentation
manufacturers who need to characterise, model and test HF active components and
circuits under realistic conditions, especially in nonlinear mode of operation.
NMDG has 20 years of practical experience in high – frequency stimulus-response
systems that focus on nonlinear behaviour and is co-creator of the large-signal net
work analyser (LSNA) technology whom concepts and calibration processes have
earned a worldwide recognition.
However, from an engineer's point of view, the LSNA techniques are often new and
seem complex. Accordingly, NMDG does consider as one of its primary missions to
help engineers to understand and to take benefit of these powerful techniques with
minimal risk at an affordable cost.
In this context, NMDG introduces the NM310S, a cost-efficient nonlinear starter kit, al
lowing you to make your first steps in the nonlinear world with your vector network
analyser.
Once acquainted, you will be able to extend, with incremental investment, the capabil
ity of your system to perform nonlinear measurements under further realistic condi
tions, including non-50 Ohm environment using passive or active tuners and to support
the design and test efforts of your company or institute.
4. Extending a VNA to characterise and analyse
the nonlinear behaviour of active components
a1 a2
i1 i2
Beyond S-parameters
v1 DUT v2
b1 b2
Full harmonic characterisation of nonlinear RF / HF components
The linear behaviour of RF/HF components like filters, interconnects and transistors
under small-signal operation is completely characterised by S-parameters, measured
using a vector network analyser (VNA). Over time, VNAs evolved from single-ended
two-port instruments to multi-port instruments to handle differential linear devices.
Triggered by the growing need for better insight in the nonlinear behaviour of compon
ents, VNA manufacturers are adding some “nonlinear” features to some of their mod
els. These competitive features include AM-to-AM, AM-to-PM, harmonic power meas
urements and mixer characterisation. Unfortunately, these features characterise the
component 's nonlinear behaviour only partially.
Complete harmonic characterisation of high-frequency components is now possible
thanks to the nonlinear extension kits from NMDG. The NMDG extension kits are a
combination of additional hardware and software that runs on top of a selection of vec
tor network analysers.
5. Key values
➢ Study the true and complete high-frequency behaviour of your components
under realistic large-signal RF excitation and mismatch conditions
➢ Eliminate the uncertainty of the impact of the measurement environment
➢ Determine the matching circuits for proper classes of operation directly
➢ Investigate the reliability of your components under realistic HF conditions
Key benefits
➢ One connection from small-signal to large-signal HF characterisation
➢ Fast and complete test capability, even in non-50 Ohm environment
➢ New insight in diodes, transistors, amplifiers and fast switching devices
Key capabilities
➢ Complete characterisation of device behaviour at both input and output ports,
including amplitude and phase spectral content
➢ Incident and reflected waves and voltages and currents formalism
➢ Frequency and time domain representation
➢ Connectorised and on-wafer calibration and measurement
➢ Overrange detection and autoranging capability
➢ 3D dynamic trajectories, mapping DC and HF conditions
➢ Derived measurement quantities, e.g. input and output powers, gain, PAE,
input and output impedances at fundamental and harmonics
6. The NM310S Nonlinear Starter Kit
The NM201 Comb Generator
The NM310S nonlinear starter kit aims to guide you step by step into the nonlinear
world. With a low investment, you will be able to explore the power of LSNA tech
niques with a minimal risk.
On top of the standard measurement capabilities of your vector network analyser, the
NM310S kit provides calibrated measurement capability of the time waveforms of the
incident and reflected waves or voltages and currents at the ports of a component un
der test. The calibrated waveforms are periodical with a minimal frequency of 20 MHz
and with spectral components up to 3 GHz.
Amongst others, the NM310S kit is very suitable to characterise diodes, transistors,
amplifiers and fast switching devices.
7. Key capabilities and Limitations of NM310S Starter Kit
➢ Measurement of fundamental and harmonics under CW conditions
➢ Characterisation of spectral components from 20 MHz to 3 GHz
➢ Power limited by the linearity of the VNA's receivers. Linearity can be extended
up to the maximum power handling of the VNA by using external attenuators
What's in the box
The kit consists of:
➢ One NM201 double-output Comb Generator (20 MHz - 3 GHz); one output is
used as synchroniser enabling the reconstruction of time waveforms while the
second output is used as Harmonic Phase Reference (HPR) supporting the
required phase calibration
➢ One SMA connection kit
➢ One USB stick containing the NMDG's ICE software installer, a ICE 30 day
demo license1, a quick start guide and several tutorials.
1 The ICE 30 day demo license will allow you to begin immediately your first steps in the nonlinear world. A final license
is delivered for your system on demand.
8. ICE
Reveals the power of LSNA techniques
The NM310S starter kit comes with NMDG's software package, ICE (Integrated Com
ponent Characterisation Environment). ICE is an easy-to-use software for nonlinear
HF component characterisation, supporting system configuration, absolute calibration
and measurement.
ICE aims to characterize the complete nonlinear behaviour of components under real
istic conditions with almost real-time feedback. It allows one to combine different in
struments and equipments, enabling realistic stimuli – response measurements.
With an easy-to-use graphical user interface, the user configures and calibrates the
system to perform accurate harmonic measurements. The data, i.e. incident and re
flected waves or voltages and currents at the ports of a device under test, can be visu
alised and saved in different ways.
Data Displays
Spectral data in frequency domain
Similar to a spectrum analyser, the NM310S
Starter Kit allows one to visualise the spec
tral data of the measured quantities in fre
quency domain.
The unique feature is that the spectral data
includes calibrated phase information.
Amplitude and phase of transmitted waves
in frequency domain
9. Input and output impedances on Smith Chart
Using measured incident and reflected
waves, it is possible to calculate and visual
ise the impedances at DUT input and the
output impedances presented at output of
the device, at fundamental and harmonics on
Smith Chart representations.
Load impedances presented to the DUT
at fundamental, second and third harmonics
Time-domain waveforms
An oscilloscope is an indispensable
tool on the lab bench to probe signals
and to diagnose the proper behaviour
of circuits. For analogue circuits and
components operating at an ever in
creasing signal frequency and inform
ation density, voltage information only
is not enough. The advantages of us
ing vector network analysers instead
of oscilloscopes have clearly been
proven for linear RF and HF applica
tions. The NM310S kit provides the Time domain waveforms
same advantage for nonlinear RF and (from top to bottom, left to right: incident wave at input,
reflected wave at input, output voltage, output current)
HF applications.
10. 3D dynamic trajectories
By combining the measured quantities,
it is now possible to visualise, almost in
real-time, different dynamic trajectories
such as the output current waveform
versus output voltage waveform, i.e.
the dynamic loadline, on top of DC out
put characteristics of the device under
test.
Furthermore, as both quantities at in
put and output of the device are meas
3D dynamic loadline ured simultaneously, the NM310S
Starter Kit allows one to map, for example, the dynamic excursion of the gate voltage
to the static gate voltage, using gradient colours. Different phenomena such as trap
ping and memory effects or delay between input and output can now be visualised in
real-time.
Derived quantities
Thanks to the measurement of the ba
sic quantities, one can easily calculate
derived quantities such as gain, de
livered input and output powers, effi
ciency and power added efficiency.
Derived quantities
11. Integrate ICE capabilities in your own test environment
You can benefit of the ICE measurement capabilities in your own test environment
thanks to the ICE remote connection.
When your development platform is able to call directly .NET 2.0 assemblies, such
as LabVIEW (7 or higher), Mathematica (5.2 or higher) or MATLAB (R2009A or
higher), you will be able to integrate directly ICE functionalities in your own
application.
Alternatively, ICE can be integrated in development platform able to call C/C++
library. However, you will need to develop an interop library, which bridges
unmanaged C/C++ to .NET, to cover your needed API. An example is bundled with
the ICE installation to demonstrate the basic principle.
12. Empowering your R&S VNA for large-signal measurements
using the NM310S Starter Kit
Excitation
Source Port 3
Reflectometer Synchroniser
Receiver
20 dB
Port 1 Port 2 Port 4
Possible DUT Access to output Spare Port
Signal e.g. tuning e.g. Differential
Conditioning nonlinear measurement
Block diagram of the NM310S Starter Kit connected to a R&S VNA
Presently the NM310S Starter Kit supports the following R&S vector network analyser
models:
➢ 4-port R&S® ZVA8
➢ 4-port R&S® ZVA24
➢ 4-port R&S® ZVA40
➢ 4-port R&S® ZVA50
➢ 4-port R&S® ZVA67
➢ R&S® ZVT8 (at least 3 ports)
➢ R&S® ZVT20 (at least 3 ports)
with the following options:
➢ Direct generator/receiver Access hardware option (R&S® ZVAxx-B16 or
R&S® ZVTxx-B16)
➢ Frequency conversion software option (R&S® ZVA-K4)
➢ Optional: Step attenuator hardware option for measurement receivers at Port 1
and Port 2, allowing automatic range adaptation
(R&S® ZVAxx-B31 and -B32 or R&S® ZVT20-B32)
➢ R&S ZVAB firmware 2.80 or higher
13. The user needs also to provide:
➢ A R&S® NRP-Z series power sensor directly connected to the R&S VNA
via a NRP-Z3 (active) or a NRP-Z4 (passive) USB adapter in order to perform
the required power calibration
➢ A standard calibration kit, consisting of a short, open and load, used for the
relative calibration (alternatively R&S calibration unit can be used for
connectorised setup)
➢ RF Test cables to connect the device under test to the R&S VNA
➢ External fixed attenuator and a small RF flexible cable per port to extend the
linearity of the measurement receiver when the step attenuator option is
missing on Port 1 (option B31) and/or Port 2 (option B32). Please refer to
Table 1 for required attenuation value depending on your R&S VNA model.
➢ Adapters to connect the NM201 double-output comb generator (SMA),
depending on your R&S VNA model.
R&S VNA Model Attenuator value
R&S® ZVA8 20 dB
R&S® ZVA24 25 dB
R&S® ZVA40 30 dB
R&S® ZVA50 25 dB
R&S® ZVA67 35 dB
R&S® ZVT8 20 dB
R&S® ZVT20 25 dB
Table 1: Attenuation value of external fixed attenuator required
when step attenuator option on Port 1 (B31) and/or Port 2 (B32) is not present.
14. ICE Software Requirements
The ICE software can run on a desktop, a laptop or directly on the R&S vector network
analysers.
To use ICE on a desktop or laptop, one needs to consider a PC with:
➢ Supported OS: Microsoft Windows® XP SP3, Windows Vista® or Windows® 7
(x86 or x64 version)
➢ Recommended Processor:
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo or CoreTM i3 or better
AMD AthlonTM X2 or PhenomTM or better
➢ Recommended Screen Resolution: 1280 x 1024 or higher
➢ Installed Software:
VISA I/O Library:
➢ NI-VISA Run-Time (or Full) 4.3 or higher
➢ or Agilent IO Libraries Suite 14.2 or higher
➢ or other VISA compliant library with VISA COM support
➢ External equipments control via: USB, Ethernet interface
or IEC/IEEE-bus controller interface (IEEE-488)
To use ICE on the R&S network analyser itself , please consider:
➢ Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP Embedded SP2
➢ External high-resolution screen recommended: 1280 x 1024 or higher
➢ Installed Software:
VISA I/O Library:
➢ NI-VISA Run-Time (or Full) 4.3 or higher
➢ or other VISA compliant library with VISA COM support
➢ External equipments control via: USB, Ethernet interface
or IEC/EEE bus by using the R&S® ZVAB-B44 USB-to-IEC/IEEE Adapter
15. Extending the NM310S Starter Kit
Extend Frequency Range
NMDG offers different nonlinear extension kits for your VNA with extended frequency
range.
Extend Instrument Support
Specific instruments can be integrated in ICE through dedicated plugins.
The Tuner plugin allows one to integrate, and potentially control, different types of im
pedance tuners in ICE. The plugin contains drivers for a selection of tuner models from
tuner manufacturers.
Add Powerful Applications
ICE can be extended with different applications to assist you in your tests and designs.
The ICEBreaker application allows one to perform generic sweep plans such as DC,
power and/or load-pull sweeps, and to collect measurement data in an accurate way,
using different types of stimuli and receivers in a coherent way, with or without control
loops. It provides comprehensive visualisation of measurement data sets for free. For
example, the user can analyse the behaviour of its component under multi-harmonic
source and load mismatch conditions using source- and load-pull contour plots.
The NM600 Fast Source and Load Pull (FSLP) application enables the characterisa
tion of active components under various input and output mismatch conditions with
only your VNA. Within the power capabilities of the VNA, one does not need to invest
in a dedicated and costly source- and load-pull setup, based on either passive or act
ive tuning techniques.
The NM700 S-function extraction tool allows to create a measurement-based behavi
oural model for active components and to verify it. The model can then be exported to
different CAE tools.
16. And More...
Besides the commercialisation of products, NMDG offers characterisation & behaviour
al modelling services based on Large-Signal Network Analyser (LSNA) technology,
resulting in faster realisation of better and more complex HF designs, better testing
procedures and faster time to market.
Using its extensive expertise in RF instrumentation, NMDG develops characterisation
systems on customer demand.
Finally, as each nonlinear problem is different, NMDG provides consulting services to
help customer to understand and solve their problems, and gives training courses on
nonlinear characterisation techniques, load-pull techniques and behavioural modelling
theory.
17. Order Information
Designation Type Order number
20 MHz-3GHz Nonlinear Starter Kit for R&S VNA NMDG NM310S-Z NM310S-Z
18. More information
NM310S Starter Kit and other NMDG products and services, focusing on nonlinear RF
and HF characterisation, behavioural modelling and test:
Phone: +32 3 890 46 12
Email: info@nmdg.be
www.nmdg.be
Rohde&Schwarz VNA: www.rohde-schwarz.com
Trademark information
➢ R&S® ZVA and ZVT are registered trademarks of Rohde&Schwarz GmbH & Co.
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➢ LabVIEWTM is a trademark of National Instruments Corporation. NI-VISA is
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September 2011 - Product description and specification are subject to change without
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