VNA concepts and features
R&S
®
ZNL/ZNLE
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User Manual 1178.5966.02 ─ 19
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For a multiport Touchstone file
*.s<n>p
, either a full multiport system error
correction or a complete set of n
2
S-parameter traces must be available.
If the port configuration contains balanced ports, the exported Touchstone file
contains the converted single-ended S-parameters unless you enable "Bal-
anced Params" during export.
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Export of balanced (symmetric) S-parameters must be enabled. If you want to
export balanced S-parameters, make sure that all these parameters are mea-
sured, and that for each involved balanced port both physical ports are part of
the export.
This type of export can be initiated from the GUI by using the "s<n>p Port ..." or
"snp Free Config. ..." functions of the
Renormalization of S-parameters
Renormalization means that the S-parameters at connector impedances are converted
to S-parameters at certain target impedances.
During Touchstone export, the S-parameters can be renormalized in two ways:
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Common target impedance
The
<reference resistance>
of the
is taken as common target
impedance and the data is renormalized to the common target impedance, regard-
less of the reference impedances of the involved ports.
If the impedances of all involved ports are identical, the analyzer sets the
<reference resistance>
in the
to the real part of this impedance.
Otherwise it sets it to 50 (Ω).
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In this case, the reference impedances of the individual ports are used for the
renormalization and these impedances are documented in the
comment. If the port-specific reference impedances are different, an
additional warning is added to this comment, indicating that the option line contains
a non-matching reference resistance.
Note
that when reimporting this type of file into standard applications (including the
R&S
ZNL/ZNLE itself), the
<reference resistance>
of the Touchstone option
line is used and the impedance system underlying the data is not interpreted cor-
rectly.
9.4.2.2
ASCII (*.csv) files
An ASCII file contains a header and the actual trace data:
freq;reTrc1_S21;imTrc1_S21;reMem2[Trc1]_S21;imMem2[Trc1]_S21;
300000.000000;0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;
40499497.487437;0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;
80698994.974874;0.494927;-0.065174;0.500833;-0.074866;
120898492.462312;0.497959;-0.111724;0.488029;-0.107375;
...
Operations on traces