It's a typical RF data sheet: primitive DC specs and no DC curves at all.
The eval boards just bring out the gate bias as a pin and assume users will magically know how to set that.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Yeah, crank it up til it emits magic smoke, then twenty percent less...
It's not obvious what polarity the bias should be.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
On a sunny day (Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:48:27 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
Indeed, that pissed me of too, was the first thing I looked for. and x times the same shit with bad quality drawings.
Am 31.01.19 um 08:51 schrieb snipped-for-privacy@nospam.org:
In this app note, they mention that they have pretty accurate models
<but it takes a harmonic balance simulator, so el cheapo LTspice won't cut it. Buy a copy of ADS, for 100K +-.
regards, Gerhard
On a sunny day (Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:33:09 +0100) it happened Gerhard Hoffmann wrote in :
Yea, well I thought : 'Must be extremely nonlinear or large production spread else they would publish it'.
So I erased the pdf, after all I have this:
Am 31.01.19 um 14:15 schrieb snipped-for-privacy@nospam.org:
No, just the opposite. The only important market for these is cell phone base stations and to avoid spectral regrowth and for efficiency reasons they need at least Doherty amplifiers, preferably with a monitoring receiver and active predistortion. Just take a look at ADI's fastest ADCs with GHz sample rates and what they are made for.
You cannot make that with LTspice, it takes ADS or Microwave office. The data sheets are just teasers, you don't get far without their engineering pack.
I once did some design work on a base station, regretfully on it's CPU and not the RF section. The customer made it clear that every ? on the BOM would have to be multiplied by 10 Meg over the product lifetime. Even Xilinx insisted they would never ever lose the design-in on price.
You could have got mine. I bought it for AO-40, the one with the strong elliptical orbit. When it turned out that it would never fly, the amplifier strip disappeared somewhere in the basement. One of my worst investments.
73, GerhardGerhard Hoffmann wrote
OK, but I wrote that because you never know if they read this group and would then publish it ;-)
I need to get some experience with those FETS, really. There is a lot of those new parts that I have no hand on experience with yet, not needed those till now.
Many years ago, eh 2010 to be precise, I bought a "super-conductor technologies super-filter" on ebay for a few hundred dollars from the US, it came from a cellphone tower.
It has a band filter made with a super-conductor (around 800 MHz or so it is?) cooled by a Sterling cooler, and a lot of nice RF stuff for that band, RF relays, RF preamps, attenuators, ... I bought it for the Sterling cooler, that alone is 12k $ new, to cool cameras to get lower noise. Condensation is always a problem, but also the thing is great for all sorts of experiments, bought a CSSP-YLME YBCO-123 Disk from can-superconductors.com... Make your own liquid air...
The actual super-conducting filter is in a large dewar, that the Sterling cooler sticks into:
I bought mine in 2014, the Es'hail-2 was delayed many times..... So the thing landed, after testing with a dummy load, in the storage too.
Anyways cellphone tower are sort of interesting in many ways,,, Maybe even more so now 5G coming.
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