Specifications

Agilent’s award-winning NVNA goes beyond S-parameters to:
• Efficiently and accurately analyze and design active devices and systems under real-world
operating conditions, to reduce design cycles by as much as 50%
• Gain valuable insight into device behavior with full nonlinear component characterization
(Option 510)
– Display calibrated time-domain waveforms of incident, reflected, and transmitted
waves of the DUT in coaxial, in-fixture, or on-wafer environments
– Show the amplitude and phase of all harmonic and distortion spectral products
to design optimal matching circuits
– Create user-defined displays such as dynamic load lines
– Measure with full traceability to the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
• Provide fast and powerful measurements of DUT nonlinear behavior using
X-parameters (Option 514)
– Extend linear S-parameters into nonlinear operating regions for accurate predictions
of cascaded nonlinear device behavior using measurement-based data
– Easily import the NVNA’s X-parameters into Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS) to
quickly and accurately simulate and design nonlinear components, modules and systems
• Measure memory effects such as self heating and signal-dependent bias changes
(Option 518)
• Capture complete load-dependent nonlinear component behavior with X-parameters
and external impedance tuners (Option 520)
Breakthrough technology accurately characterizes nonlinear behaviors
Testing today’s high-power devices demands an alternate solution—one that quickly and
accurately measures and displays the device’s nonlinear behavior under large signal conditions,
and provides an accurate behavioral model that can be used for linear and nonlinear circuit
simulations. The Agilent nonlinear vector network analyzer (NVNA) and X-parameters*
provide that solution.
*
X-parameters is a registered trademark of Agilent Technologies.
The X-parameter format and underlying equations are open
and documented. For more information, visit
http://www.agilent.com/find/eesof-x-parameters-info
Measure complete linear and nonlinear component behavior
with the Agilent NVNA, and then accurately perform
simulations and optimizations with Agilent’s Advanced
Design System.
Agilent’s NVNA software options and accessories
convert an Agilent 4-port PNA-X network analyzer into a
high-performance nonlinear vector network analyzer.
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