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PicoVNA® 100 Series vector network analyzers

E-cal or fixed SOLT and TRL calibration

PicoVNA 5 software supports all of the PicoVNA calibration methods with an advanced and step-by-

step diagrammatic calibration wizard. As an assurance of calibration quality for the fixed SOLT and

TRL/TRM calibrations, each calibration measurement presents as a live pre-scaled display trace and

completion of one stage, presents the next until all are complete. Users can elect to change or re-visit

any stage of the sequence until it is complete.

Reference plane extension

Reference plane extension (offset) allows you to shift the measurement reference plane away from

the point established during calibration. This is useful in removing the path length of assumed ideal

interconnecting , connectors cables or microstrip lines from measurements.

The PicoVNA 5 software allows independent reference plane extensions on each of the ports and these

can be additional to de-embed (below).

De-embed port interfaces

When it is unsafe to assume the above ideal interconnecting connectors cables or microstrip

lines; for example to achieve greater accuracy or to remove known imperfections in a test setup,

we can choose instead to de-embed the interface networks on each measurement port. The

PicoVNA 5 software simply requires a full Touchstone .s2p file or files for each of the embedded

interfacing networks on the two ports. Unusual for some vector network analyzers, the PicoVNA

software will competently vector interpolate between calibration frequencies and de-embed file

frequencies where necessary and possible.

PicoVNA 5: Game-changing new software for PicoVNA

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