From: William Devey ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 08:41:32 PST
I agree with Ulrich. I laid out a signal itegrity test board using SMA
through-holes, believing
the data sheet data which indicated good performance to 1.8Ghz and above. I
also tried the
vertical surface mount version (Johnson PN 142--0711-201)
I was shocked at how wretched the transition was between high quality 50
ohm coax and
my ~50 ohm strip line using both of the above. I was able to achieve a much
better transition
by carefully dressing a bare coax cable end with lead lengths less than .1
inch and carefully
soldering these to two .013"x.026" vias spaced .100", and connented to the
stripline and ground plane respectively.
A board edge SMA connector exists (Johnson PN 142-0701-851, or
142-0701-801) for
.063" thick boards. They also exit for thinner board material. I have not
tried these
but now believe that they have MORE potential for a clean transition than
any through
hole deviece.
Regards,
Bill DeVey
IBM Staff (Linear) Systems Engineer
15450 SW Koll Parkway
Beaverton, OR 97006
Phone: 503-578-5728
FAX: 503-578-5797
Cell: 503-936-8226
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"Wallenhorst, Ulrich" <[email protected]>@silab.eng.sun.com on
01/03/2001 06:02:04 AM
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Larry,
I recommend to avoid any plated through-hole SMA-launcher. The thicker the
boards the more critical the degrading capacitive effects will be with not
real chance to compensate with tricks like counter drilling or higher
inductive trace-impedance in mm-distance from the signal-pad. You can
indeed use SMA edge-connectors. You have to use the version with only 2
ground pins and solder it properly on the boards and guarantee a very low
inductive path by e.g. using self-build metal-blocks. If this option is not
suitable for Your application the remaining alternative are low-capacitance
probe tips.
Best regards
Ulrich Wallenhorst
HARTING KGaA
Dept.:�� Electronic Connectors Division
Director of Advanced Interconnection Solutions
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Von: �� Larry Miller[SMTP:[email protected]]
Antwort an: ��� Larry Miller
Gesendet: ����� Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2001 14:38
An: ��� Si-List (E-mail)
Betreff: ������ [SI-LIST] : SMA test connector PCB layout
I need to make some measurements on PC boards up to 5 GHz using a
network
analyzer. In the past I didn't care that much because I was doing TDR
measurements.
Unfortunately, the boards I will be looking at are too thick to use the
"SMA
edge connector" trick.
Does anyone have a pointer to a good PCB footprint that will not have
impedance discontinuities. The connector I want to mount is the familiar
center pin + 4 ground pins vertical SMA style.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Larry Miller
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