Chapter 14. Frequency Domain Measurements

Douglas C. Yates

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At multiple gigabits per second, the frequency content of serial digital communications signals extends well into the microwave frequency range. Network and spectrum analyzers have long been the primary instruments for radio frequency and microwave engineers, but many digital designers have had no exposure to these instruments or to frequency domain measurements in general.

This chapter provides an introduction to frequency domain measurements with a network analyzer: instrument hardware, measurement engineering, extraction of meaningful parameters, error correction, and different ways ...

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