• DocumentCode
    3363804
  • Title

    Characteristics and modeling of a broadband transmission-line transformer

  • Author

    Malinen, Arto ; Stadius, Kari ; Halonen, Kari

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. Circuit Design Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    23-26 May 2004
  • Abstract
    The modeling of a commercial broadband transmission-line transformer is presented in this paper and two distinctive circuit models are introduced. Also the operation and characteristics of transmission-line transformers are discussed and compared with the conventional flux-coupled transformers. The developed models show good agreement with the measured data implicating that accurate models were obtained. The models proved to be a significant aid for a successful design of a broadband RF tuner for cable modems.
  • Keywords
    broadband networks; transformers; transmission lines; broadband RF tuner; broadband transmission line transformer modeling; cable modem; conventional flux coupled transformer; data implication; Circuits; Couplings; Impedance matching; Magnetic cores; Magnetic flux; Power transformer insulation; Radio frequency; Transformer cores; Transmission lines; Tuners;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2004. ISCAS '04. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8251-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2004.1329028
  • Filename
    1329028