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Display impedance on Genesys' Smith Chart?

Hi Guys,

Something that has wasted hours of my time, and without any success: I'm trying to make the Agilent Genesys linear simulator show me the complex (rectangular) input impedance of a circuit, and display that impedance (through a marker) on the Smith Chart, rather than just as polar S11. (A Genesys Table display can do it easily...). The ZIN1 parameter does not even seem to work (I had thought it had, some years ago). Surely there is a way! Anyone have any ideas on this??

Thank you!

-Bill

(PS: I was also trying to make the graph's marker text larger, but that failure is just too painful to talk about).

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billcalley
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No pun intended but that's one reason I use a real Smith Chart. Then ones where they first have to fell a tree ...

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Regards, Joerg

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Joerg

True Joerg, but all of the software Smith charts I have ever used allow this capability too. And for some reason, most people in this newsgroup don't seem to be very familiar with Genesys, so I guess its no REAL-IMAGINARY impedance's for me (at least on Eagleware's Smith chart tool)!

Best,

-Bill

Reply to
billcalley

laughs. Maybe you need to import into Agilents free tool Appcad to do that. Appcad does smith charts.

Seriously, there has to be a setting... doesn't there?

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Simon S Aysdie

Eagleware? Yeah, if you work in a huge business where several thousand Dollars are considered chump change, or if your name is Rockefeller. My only expense is about $1 for new compasses when traveling because the TSA guys won't let them on board.

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Regards, Joerg

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Joerg

The "full" version of Genesys (now owned by Agilent -- they bought Eageware something pushing a couple of years ago) is ~$20k. Certainly not cheap, but very much within reach for any copmany with more than a handful of decently paid engineers. (I mean, if you have a half dozen engineers these days, you company must be burning something pushing a million bucks a year...)

I bought a decent compass/divider set while in college. It was probably something like $20, but well worth it -- compared to the $1 compasses I was able to draw much better circles.

---Joel

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Joel Koltner

But imagine how many parties $20k could throw for the guys :-)

I still find it a bit on the expensive side. I have occasionally used similar luxury suites at clients but afterwards never felt enticed to plunk down the equivalent of a new car myself.

IMHO the gEDA world could become promising if the leaders in that field would foray out of the "nerd corner" and into the Windows mainstream.

Oh, I've got a really nice set here but TSA so far considered those weapons. So before leaving I scope out a Walmart on the route from the airport to the client where they have the plastic versions for school kids.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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Joerg

The fully optioned version was/is about 20k$, but the base version was

1k$ a few years back. There are other ways of getting around the price/performance issues with the package, for instance Microwave Office used to cost considerably less. Also all the synthesis tools in Eagleware usually have superior tools with more functionallity from other vendors.

Andrew

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Sarason

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