HMC963: IP2 and second harmonic detais

Hi Matteo,

For starters I believe I can share some IP2 data up to ~20GHz. I could probably calculate the expected HD2/3 numbers on our side from our IP2/IP3 results during validation if you think this would be helpful.

Thanks,

DanO

Hi Dan,

thank you for the answer.

Yes, i think that is very useful to share the values ​​and formulas to obtain IP2/IP3 and HD2/3.

I think the second harmonic distortion is too high. Do you agree?

Thank you,

Matteo

Hi Matteo, 

I cant say that its unreasonably high definitively yet. I'm plotting the IP2/3 now. Is 10GHz the main focus of this application? Or is the customer using the part over a range?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi Dan,

this application covers from 10 GHz to 26 GHz.

I'm waiting to receive the data of IP2 and IP3.

Thank you,

Matteo

Hi Matteo,

We have a full dataset for IP3. However, we have limited IP2 data due to equipment limitations at the time. We have room temp IP2 up to 19.5GHz (much less data at -40C and 85C). Data is attached.

Thanks,

DanO

HMC963LC4_IP3_temp.xlsx

Hi Dan,

thanks for the data.

However, the second harmonic level is high (see the second image of the first message).

 I'll try to summarize:

• the fundamental power is about -22 dBm at the input of the amplifier;
• the second harmonic power is about -87 dBm at the input oh the amplifier;
• the fundamental power is about 0 dBm at the output of the amplifier (correct because the gain is 22 dB);
• the second harmonic power is about -29 dBm at the output oh the amplifier. 

Why this? The amplifier works in linear region (10 dB below the OP1dB of 10 dBm), so the input power of - 22 dBm is not too high. Do you agree?

Thank you in advance.

Matteo

Hi Matteo,

I've calculated and attached an estimated HD2 chart of the HMC963. It is much lower than your results. Is this a measurement of the customers system or just our board?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi Dan,

thank you for the answer.

The measurements that i have attached were obtained with the PLL ADF4371 and HMC963 evaluation boards.

Can i ask how you obtained the last measurement?

Thank you in advance.

Matteo Ricci.

Hi Matteo,

I used an H2 calculator developed by our engineers that takes our data taken during validation and calculates the expected 2nd harmonic curves.

Thanks,

Dan