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The noise figure measurement system shown in Figure 1 can be seen as a two-stage system as illustrated in Figure 2. ‘Stage 1’ is DUT, and ‘Stage 2’ is Equivalent NF Instrument, that is, the system downconverter plus the signal analyzer shown in Figure 1 Figure 2. Noise figure meas...
The noise figure measurement procedure consists of a few relatively straightforward steps: Step 1. Measurement of DUT gain or S-parameters (over an appropriate frequency range and at an appropriate power level) Step 2. Perform an optional user power calibration over the frequencies of interest to ...
External mixer is used during calibration and measurement as a part of the test system. To reduce the uncertainty of noise figure measurement, frequency conversion loss and noise figure of the chosen mixer should be as small as possible. Besides, the inter...
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5 2.1.2 What is noise temperature? 6 Thermal noise power 6 Noise temperature 6 2.1.3 Noise figure in multi-stage systems 8 2.2 Y-factor measurement8 2.2.1 Excess Noise Ratio (ENR)9 2.2.2 Y-factor 9 2.2.3 Calibration10 2.2.4 Measurement with DUT 10 2.2.5 Calculation of gain11 2.2....
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VectorNetworkAnalyzer Highspeedcomputerworkstation Noisefigurecalibration ThisisthemethodusedbytheAgilent84000RFICTester! MeasurementProcess:CalibrationPhase 1.RFsourcePowerCalibration 2.2-PortS-ParameterCalibration 3.CharacterizetheColdReferenceTermination 4.NoiseFigureReceiverCalibration ...
The following is an example of calibration data for an N4001A noise source: # ENR Data File # Created by N8975A NFA Series Noise Figure Analyzer # Serial Number GB40390000 Firmware Revision A.01.01 # 13:37:07 Mar 28, 2001 # Format is: Frequency (Hz), ENR (dB), ENR Unc (dB), ...
FIGURE 1.Probability of bit error versusEb/Nofor several types of coding. Figure 1also shows theShannon limit(Eb/No=−1.6dB) below which error-free communication cannot occur regardless of information rate or coding method. This limit derives from theShannon-Hartley theoremof information theory....