Build Your Own VNA
(Room 203)
18 Oct 18
9:00 AM
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11:15 AM
This hands-on course is designed for university students, graduate students, engineers who are early in their career, or anyone who wants a better understanding of how measurements actually work and what effect a good measurement has on your design. The goal of this course is to bridge the gap between academics and real-world engineering. Attendees will work in teams to build a VNA, load the scripts, talk about the math behind the measurements, make a measurement, and see if they got the measurement correct. Topics covered include: transmission line theory and lab measurements, basics of s-parameter measurements, and construction of a VNA. The VNA Kit includes all the hardware (provided by Mini Circuits) and software (provided by Vayyar) to generate the VNA transmitter signals and capture/receive signals (reference and reflected) to implement a full vector measurement function and generate a complete set of microwave network analysis.