How to Design PCB Transmission Lines with Controlled Impedance
Presented by: Sierra Circuits
Featuring: Brian Walker, Senior RF Engineer SME
When designing circuits in the GHz range, ensuring uniform transmission line impedance becomes critical to maintain signal integrity. These traces play a key role in managing propagation delay, which is essential for synchronized data transfer.
In this webinar, you’ll learn the best practices for designing PCB transmission lines with controlled impedance.
How to Design PCB Transmission Lines with Controlled Impedance - Presented by Sierra Circuits
How to Design PCB Transmission Lines with Controlled Impedance
Presented by: Sierra Circuits
Featuring: Brian Walker, Senior RF Engineer SME
When designing circuits in the GHz range, ensuring uniform transmission line impedance becomes critical to maintain signal integrity. These traces play a key role in managing propagation delay, which is essential for synchronized data transfer.
In this webinar, you’ll learn the best practices for designing PCB transmission lines with controlled impedance.
High-Speed PCB Design and VNA Testing - Presented by Sierra Circuits
High-Speed PCB Design and VNA Testing
Presented by: Sierra Circuits
Featuring: Brian Walker, Senior RF Engineer SME
When designing PCBs with operating frequencies beyond 10 GHz, you’ll often encounter challenges such as signal reflections, crosstalk, propagation delay, and EMI. These issues might degrade the S/N ratio and attenuate the transmitted signal. If left unchecked, the signal’s fidelity decreases over time, and the entire system might crash.
In this high-speed PCB webinar, you will learn the key design challenges and techniques to tackle them.
- What is the OTA Antenna Test System?
- What applications can it be used for?
- How to calibrate the VNA for radiation pattern measurement?
- How to select the correct bundle for your application?
- Live Measurement Demonstration
Overview of CMT's Over-The-Air (OTA) Antenna Test System for 5G and mmWave Frequencies
Overview of CMT's Over-The-Air (OTA) Antenna Test System for 5G and mmWave Frequencies
In this webinar, CMT’s Applications Engineering Team Lead, Patrick Li, will provide a comprehensive overview of the new OTA Antenna Test System for 5G and mmWave measurements. The following topics will be discussed:
- What is the OTA Antenna Test System?
- What applications can it be used for?
- How to calibrate the VNA for radiation pattern measurement?
- How to select the correct bundle for your application?
- Live Measurement Demonstration
Present and Future of 75Ω in Vector Network Analysis
Present and Future of 75Ω in Vector Network Analysis
In this webinar, Eddy Vanderkerken of SOURCERER will discuss the current market for 75 Ohm VNAs and highlight some of the best calibration tools and accessories available for 75 Ohm analyzers. Then he’ll discuss the key differences in 50 Ohm and 75 Ohm connectors, followed by a couple of live measurement demonstrations, before offering insight into the future of 75 Ohm measurements and answering listener-submitted questions.
The measurement demonstrations performed by CMT’s Brian Walker will include a 470 MHz LPF measurement using CMT’s SC7540 VNA and an evaluation of a 75 Ohm cable up to 12 GHz using CMT’s S5180B VNA with 50-to-75-ohm mechanical adapters.
Free Space Material Characterization at Millimeter Wave: Using Frequency Extenders with CTG's Focused Beam System
Free Space Material Characterization at Millimeter Wave: Using Frequency Extenders with CTG's Focused Beam System
Introduction to OTA Measurement for mmWave and Sub-THz with MilliBox and CMT Components
Introduction to OTA Measurement for mmWave and Sub-THz with MilliBox and CMT Components
Jeanmarc Laurent from MilliBox is showing a live demo of an accessible complete OTA system setup consisting of a VNA, an anechoic chamber and a 3D DUT positioner.
During this course we will cover the following points:
- How to select the right positioner type
- How to select the right chamber size
- How to operate the MilliBox software controller
- How to collect and process the data from a VNA
- How to expend this setup for frequency beyond 50GHz
- Q&A
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