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Measureing INPUT impedance of the Passive Switching Mixer

RFQuery
RFQuery over 14 years ago

 Hi All,

I want to plot the input impedance ( in RF Port side) of a passive switching Mixer [2-Phase i.e. 2- 180 degree out of phase non-over lapping LOs with rise and fall time of 1 fs & Two switches Loaded with   Resistors of  50 Ohm at the IF ports] with respect to Frequency.

LO frequency was kept 1 GHz and the RF input frequency is swept from 0 to 5 GHz. The RF port impedance is kept at 50 ohm. Also I used analogLib delay element to generate 180 degree out-of pahse 2nd LO.

From theory I know this input impeadnce at the RF port will be a Frequency translated version of the IF side Impedance. But since I am using simple resistor at the IF side the RF side impedance will be the same resistor i.e 50 Ohm

I did PSS and PSP analysis and then I plotted the S11 but I got 0dB across  the frequency instead of getting a very large -ve value !!

Can anybody please tell me Where I am going wrong in doing the simulation ?

My Netlist is as Below:--

// Library name: PASSIVE_MIXER
// Cell name: IN_IMPEDANCE
// View name: schematic
V0 (net7 0) vsource type=pulse pacmag=1 pacphase=0 val0=1 val1=0 period=1n \
        delay=0 rise=1f fall=1f width=500.0p
PORT0 (net1 0) port r=50 num=1 type=sine freq=frf dbm=prf fundname="rf"
DELAY0 (net033 0 net7 0) delay td=500.0p gain=1.0
R1 (IF_N 0) resistor r=50
R0 (IF_P 0) resistor r=50
SW1 (IF_N net1 0 net033) relay vt1=0 vt2=1 ropen=1T rclosed=1.0
SW2 (IF_P net1 0 net7) relay vt1=0 vt2=1 ropen=1T rclosed=1.0

simulatorOptions options reltol=1e-3 vabstol=1e-6 iabstol=1e-12 temp=27 \
    tnom=27 scalem=1.0 scale=1.0 gmin=1e-12 rforce=1 maxnotes=5 maxwarns=5 \
    digits=5 cols=80 pivrel=1e-3 ckptclock=1800 \
    sensfile="../psf/sens.output" checklimitdest=psf
pss  pss  fund=500M  harms=51  errpreset=moderate  annotate=status
psp  psp  sweeptype=absolute  start=0  stop=5G  step=100M
+    portharmsvec=[0]  ports=[PORT0]  donoise=no  annotate=status
modelParameter info what=models where=rawfile
element info what=inst where=rawfile
outputParameter info what=output where=rawfile
designParamVals info what=parameters where=rawfile
primitives info what=primitives where=rawfile
subckts info what=subckts  where=rawfile
saveOptions options save=allpub

 

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 14 years ago

    Wasn't quite complete - don't know what your parameter values were. Anyway, there's something a little odd here - I would have expected PORT0 to be a dc source  - you don't want it to be time varying. Also the fact that the LO had pacmag set on it threw me a bit.

    I would suggest not using delay - this can be problematic with PSS simulation; instead either add a second pulse source which is inverted, or use an ideal balun maybe.

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 14 years ago

    Wasn't quite complete - don't know what your parameter values were. Anyway, there's something a little odd here - I would have expected PORT0 to be a dc source  - you don't want it to be time varying. Also the fact that the LO had pacmag set on it threw me a bit.

    I would suggest not using delay - this can be problematic with PSS simulation; instead either add a second pulse source which is inverted, or use an ideal balun maybe.

    Andrew.

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