
System Overview
R&S
®
ZVT
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Getting Started 1300.0045.62 ─ 10
Calibration Type
Standards
Parameters
Error Terms
General Accuracy
Application
TRL (2 or more
ports)
Reflect at all ports,
Through and Line 1
[+ Line 2, Line 3
(optional)] between
all directed port
pairs, in combina-
tion with TRM
(optional)
All
Reflection tracking,
Source match,
Directivity,
Load match,
Transmission track-
ing
High, high directiv-
ity
Reflection and
transmission mea-
surements on DUTs
with 2 or more
ports, especially for
planar circuits. Limi-
ted bandwidth.
NIST Multiline TRL
(2 or more ports)
Reflect at all ports,
Through and one or
more Line stand-
ards (number not
limited) between all
directed port pairs
All
Reflection tracking,
Source match,
Directivity, Load
match, Transmis-
sion tracking
High, high directiv-
ity In general higher
accuracy than TRL
Reflection and
transmission mea-
surements on DUTs
with 2 or more
ports, especially for
planar circuits.
Bandwidth limited at
low frequencies.
TNA (2 or more
ports)
Through, Attenua-
tion, Symmetric
network
All
Reflection tracking,
Source match,
Directivity,
Load match,
Transmission track-
ing
High, lowest
requirements on
standards
Reflection and
transmission mea-
surements on DUTs
with 2 or more
ports, especially for
planar circuits.
1) Or any other 3 known one-port standards. To be used in a guided calibration, the
known standards must be declared to be open, short, and match irrespective of their
properties.
2) Or any other known two-port standard. See remark above.
The calibration type must be selected in accordance with the test setup. Select the cali-
bration type for which you can obtain or design the most accurate standards and for
which you can measure the required parameters with best accuracy.
3.4.3 Automatic Calibration
A Calibration Unit is an integrated solution for automatic system error correction of vec-
tor network analyzers. For analyzers of the R&S ZVAB family, Rohde & Schwarz pro-
vides different types of calibration units:
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The 2- and 4-port calibration units R&S ZV-Z51, R&S ZV-Z52, R&S ZV-Z53, R&S
ZV-Z54, and R&S ZV-Z55 are especially suited for R&S ZVA and R&S ZVB vector
network analyzers.
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Within their respective frequency ranges, you may also use one of the calibration
units R&S ZN-Z51 (2 or 4 ports) or R&S ZN-Z151 (2 ports)
Calibration