High-frequency measurement procedure for fully differential building blocks

Author

Peeters, Erik J E A ; Steyaert, Michel S J ; Sansen, Willy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium

Volume

46

Issue

4

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1039

Lastpage

1043

Abstract

A procedure is described which allows characterization of fully differential building blocks as a linear four-port. A new set of linear differential hybrid parameters is presented which is well suited to describe fully differential amplifiers. A measurement setup is described which allows determination of the novel differential h-parameters from measured s-parameters obtained with a two-port test set. Measurement results of a 400 MHz fully differential amplifier are presented which demonstrate the new measurement procedure

Keywords

S-parameters; differential amplifiers; electric impedance measurement; integrated circuit testing; linear network analysis; linear network synthesis; multiport networks; operational amplifiers; voltage measurement; 400 MHz; HF measurement; differential amplifiers; differential building blocks; differential h-parameters; electric variables measurement; input impedance; linear differential hybrid parameters; linear four-port; output impedance; s-parameters; two-port test set; voltage gain; Circuit testing; Differential amplifiers; Differential equations; Electric variables measurement; Impedance; Integrated circuit measurements; Operational amplifiers; Scattering parameters; Signal to noise ratio; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/19.650823

Filename

650823