Hello all! I am quite new to this list so I hope I'm not asking "dumb questions" but I am curious if anyone has used the touchstone viewer in hyperlynx. I received a 16port S-parameter model and am curious what exactly all these plots tell me. What is useful information to extract from this type of model? For instance, I have selected S11, S22, S33, ..., S1616 ports to plot in dB vs frequency. They call this the return loss, which is a measure of impedance matching? I've been trying to find some information regarding all this, but haven't found anything that turns on the "oh yeah!" light. [cid:image003.jpg@01CC948A.99ACD420] Thank you, Megan Pecheny Daktronics Hardware Design Engineer 605-692-0200 ext. 57043 Megan.Pecheny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu