Sweep Past the Passband: Verifying a Ku-Band Waveguide Filter/Coupler Assembly to 43.5 GHz
At EuMW 2026, Smiths Interconnect measured a Ku-band integrated filter/coupler assembly on an Anritsu ShockLine four-port VNA from 50 MHz to 43.5 GHz. The passband was clean, but the more...
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Conversion Phase Needs an LO Reference: Reading a Vector Mixer Measurement at EuMW 2026
At EuMW 2026, Anritsu showed scalar and vector mixer measurements on its four-port Tensor VNA. On the demo screen, a consistent phase slope gave about 3.6 ns of group delay,...
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Reading the Manual vs Reading the Trace: Anritsu's AI-Powered VNA at 220–330 GHz
At EuMW 2026, Anritsu showed its Tensor VNA, billed as the first AI-powered VNA, running a WR-3.4 thru from 220 to 330 GHz. Today the assistant reads the manual: setup,...
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One Connection, Four Views of an Amplifier: Notes From the Tensor VNA Demo at EuMW 2026
At EuMW 2026, Anritsu's Tensor VNA ran compression, gain at compression, IP3 and a two-tone IMD spectrum from a single connection. A channel-by-channel read of the screen shows what each...
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One Pulse, Three Sensors: What a Synchronised Power Measurement Reveals About an Amplifier’s Tail
At EuMW 2026, Anritsu showed a bi-directionalcoupler with three synchronised peak power sensors on a pulsedamplifier. The ratio between the channels held at 19.741 dB while theabsolute values drifted. The...
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What Are You Missing with an 8-Bit Oscilloscope? A Closer Look at the UNI-T MSO5000HD
More bits alone do not make a better oscilloscope. What matters is whether higher resolution, low noise, deep memory and fast acquisition help you see something your existing instrument may...
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MIPI D-PHY v1.2 Conformance Testing: What Does It Actually Take to Run a Full CTS Demo on the MSO8000HD?
Three oscilloscope parameters — 8 GHz, 12-bit ADC, ≤150 fs intrinsic jitter — are not arbitrary specs for MIPI D-PHY v1.2 conformance testing. Each maps directly to a specific CTS...
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Europe Is Weak in AI Narrative. But at Embedded World, I Saw Something Different.
"FPGA & SoC. Made in Germany." No AI slogans. No hype. Just modules. At Embedded World, the Trenz Electronic booth was easy to walk past. But it was showing exactly...
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Using a Function Generator as a Delay Generator: Solving the Fixed 250 ns Trigger Offset Problem
Fixed 250 ns trigger delay. Can't adjust it. Customer needs 10–100 ns range. Sound familiar? Here's why external trigger routing gives you a floor you can't go below — and...
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Mini-Circuits + VDI + Erickson PM5B at EuMW 2025: The 115 GHz Demo Nobody Stopped For — and Why It Mattered Most
The display read 15.306. No robotic arm. No giant screen. Just a Mini-Circuits synthesizer at 9583.333333 MHz × 12 = 115 GHz, a VDI multiplier, and an Erickson PM5B with...
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Virginia Diodes Compact W-Band VNA Extender + MilliBox at EuMW 2025: When Geometry Becomes Part of the Measurement
A compact Keysight P5006B VNA. Two VDI WR10+ extenders covering 67–115 GHz. A MilliBox GIM04 300E multi-axis robotic arm sweeping a W-band module through angular positions. At EuMW 2025, this...
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Virginia Diodes 300 GHz Dual Polarization OTA Link at EuMW 2025: 63 Gbps Over the Air — and What the Demo Doesn't Show You
285 GHz. 12.5 GHz bandwidth. Dual polarization H+V. 63 Gbps. Live OFDM error summary on a Keysight UXR real-time oscilloscope. The Virginia Diodes demo at EuMW 2025 was the most...
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