RE: [SI-LIST] : Frequency or time domain for component characteri zation

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From: [email protected]
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 06:58:30 PST


Scott,

I'm not sure what you mean by "baseband". If you are asking about
correlating frequency domain (VNA) measurements with time domain
measurements (TDR) that has been done for semiconductor packages where the
longest connection was short with respect to the wave length of the highest
frequency of interest. This should also apply to connectors that are
electrically short
Look at the work of the JEDEC JC-15 committee circa 1992-1994. A Tektronix
11801 TDR was compared to a Hewlett Packard 8753 (along with other
instruments). Most correlation issues were traced to setup and fixture
differences. These results were also compared to a couple of field
simulators. But in that situation VNAs needed to capture lower frequencies
(hence 8753 which starts at 300KHz VS 8510 which started ~100MHz) and TDRs
needed to capture longer (time) waveforms. FFT equivalence again. And
neither handle DC very well. But DC measurements are done with other
instruments.

Hope this helps,
Aubrey Sparkman
Signal Integrity
[email protected]
(512) 723-3592

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott McMorrow [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 9:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : Frequency or time domain for component
> characterization
>
>
> What are the issues if you would like to characterize a
> circuit at baseband, when using a VNWA? Seems to me that
> there are significant issues in dealing with the DC and low
> frequency components.
>
> Anyone have experience in correlating frequency domain measurements
> with baseband pulse performance?
>
> regards,
>
> scott
>
> c deibele wrote:
>
> > Kai,
> >
> > If you can correctly characterize your TDR head, and your
> > connectors/cables to connect to your DUT, then either measurement
> > technique will work well.
> >
> > In my opinion, it is easier to get accurate measurement
> using frequency
> > domain. This is a result of several assumptions.
> >
> > a) a VNWA can be calibrated to extract extraneous effects that are
> > difficult to extract in the time domain. These effects are
> connectors,
> > cables, gain slope of the VNWA, etc.
> >
> > b) the VNWA can run a relatively pure sinusoid. This
> means that the
> > effective bandwidth is very low, and therefore noise becomes a
> > nonissue. The only way to combat this in the time domain
> is to sample
> > your result for a very "long time". This is of course not
> true if what
> > you are measuring is a very high Q and then resonances can be missed
> > because of a poor choice of frequency sampling.
> >
> > I've gotten excellent results using circa 12 psec pulseheads to get
> > relatively good results out to 30 GHz. I compared these
> results with
> > calibrated VNWA results and observed the time domain
> results are simply
> > more noisy. additionally, depending on the impedance of the DUT
> > compared to your measurement system, reflection and/or transmission
> > measurements in the time domain can be next to impossible
> because of the
> > noise considerations in b)
> >
> > Of course, if you wish to characterize your results using
> some microwave
> > tools (like touchstone or ADS or other simulator), then you'll most
> > likely have to go to the frequency domain.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Craig Deibele
> >
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