BENCH
v 1.0 bêta (Wiltron 360 - Load Pull with pulse capabilities)
Bench has been updated on
2006 to drive a complete Load-Pull measurement setup with pulse
capabilities.
The measurement setup includes a Wiltron 360 VNA, Focus CCMT tuners,...
BENCH
v 1.0 bêta (Time Domain Enveloppe VNA)
Bench
is a new software to generate and to
measure calibrated RF time domain envelopes signals. You
can see the possibles setups in this
presentation. This
program is 100% Scilab. The GUI uses
the TCL/TK kernel (8.4) embedded within Scilab 3.0.
Bench
includes the following toolboxes :
High
level toolbox :
-
BENCH : Scripts and GUI to drive several
time domain measurement setups
Low
level toolboxes :
-
TS : Scilab Toolbox for RF devices
analysis
- GPIB
: Scilab Toolbox for RF instrumentation
- TSGUI
: The GUI
associated to TS and GPIB Toolboxes
-
ATF_BIAS : The
GUI for DC power supply
- S2P
: The GUI to manage S1P and S2P files
BENCH
constitutes an
enhanced link between simulation, modeling and characterization topics
through the Scilab/Scicos platform for system level design. It
performs quick time domain measurements
like the LSNA technology. The
GUI of BENCH is very smart. The only thing you have to know is the
complex envelope you want to apply at the RF input of your DUT. The
emitter part is fully calibrated too.
BENCH
can drive several
downconverter boxes :
IRCOM
: 2 ports - 2 or 4 mixers from 1 to
4 GHz ;
CNES
: 1 port - 1
demodulator from 1 to 4 GHz ;
CNES
: 2 ports - 2
demodulators from 4 to 31 GHz ;
BENCH
can run your own
scilab customized scripts as a plug-in.
VNA
capabilities will be
added to BENCH (4 mixers setup). SOLT / LRM and LRRM calibration
methods will be soon available...
TSGUI
v 4.0
TSGUI
is the first version of BENCH. This toolbox is obsolete conserning the
use of a time domain envelope measurement setup but is very usefull to
enable low level functionalities associated with a GUI. It is very
important to enable automatic measurements and analysis with a special
setup.
TSGUI was first a program coded in C and VEE (as you can see in my
thesis pp. 107-114). Now it's a
100% scilab
program.
TSGUI is just a GUI and requieres two other toolboxes :
- GPIB
: to enables instrument management capabilities ;
-
TS : a library of advanced functions for RF microwave analysis.
GPIB
toolbox includes a lot of
drivers (powermeters, RF sources, scopes, AWG...).
TS toolbox provides several tools as :
-
Noise Power Ratio (NPR) generator (with optimized phase relationship) ;
-
Multisine generators ;
-
Digital modulations generators (MPSK, MQAM, ...) ;
-
Several Analysis : eye's diagram, NPR, Peak to average ratio (PAR),
statistic distribution, ... ;
-
Files compatibility : CVS, Table, VEE Binblock Complex, S1P and S2P ;
-
Time-domain envelope calibration procedures ;
-
and much more...
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