Ricardo Dias’ Post

View profile for Ricardo Dias, graphic

Embedded Electronics Specialist | Leadership Specialist | RF - High Speed - Mixed Signal - Hardware Designer |

How old are you? Those engineers, graduated under the "old school" method, will know the meaning of the picture below. Network Analyzer, 20GHz, with time domain option. One of the greatest measurements equipment. #telecommunications #measurement #engineer #networkanalyzer #equipment #electronics

  • No alternative text description for this image
David VanHorn

Learning Diptrace after 25 years with Altium.

8mo

And now a serviceable VNA costs about the same as a good dinner, runs on internal batteries, and fits in your shirt pocket. What a world we live in!

David P. Markell

Sr RF/ Antenna Engineer SME MSEE

9mo

Unstable

Steve Podobinski

National OEM Sales Mgr at Motortronics

8mo

I remember having to draw (plot) these manually...you know with pencil and paper. If mess up - start over.

HP8510, a beast that today still very valuable and better than many modern VNAs.

Georg Michel

RF engineer at Siemens

9mo

Looks like it's just been switched on and uncalibrated.

Denis Cody

Senior Electronics Engineer

8mo

When I started this was beyond our budget. We did smith charts by hand. And measured using adjustable wave lengths.

Marcelo S.

Professor in Electrical Engineering

9mo

You can read a Smith Chart easily when you imagine a Fourier analysis and the horizontal frequency response rolls over from +inf to -inf in a circle so the whole upper plane of the Fourier with their real and imaginary parts become inside of the circle, a little bit of practice makes this simple to visualize

I hope young engineers know what a smith chart is and how to use it !

See more comments

To view or add a comment, sign in

Explore topics