[SI-LIST] Re: How can we set up in VNA if insertion loss is extremely high, and noise floor is also pretty high in real measurement?

  • From: "Orin Laney" <olaney@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <issue.lu@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'si-list'" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 21:21:42 -0700

Depends on the VNA architecture, but basically use a lot of averaging to
improve s/n ratio.  It improves as root N, e.g. averaging 16 sweeps results
in a 4X (12 dB) improvement.  For analog receiver type front ends use narrow
BW and commensurately slow sweep rates.

Orin

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floor is also pretty high in real measurement? ------From = SIPI
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