RF Toolbox 2.6

Latest Features

Version 2.6

Released: 04 Sep 2009
 

Version 2.6, part of Release 2009b, includes the following enhancements:

• New ispassive function for testing passivity of S-parameters
• Expanded port-ordering schemes for S-parameter conversion functions, enabling more intuitive analysis of multi-port networks
• Enhanced s2tf function, allowing for calculation of power-wave gain for transfer functions

See the Release Notes for details.

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Version 2.5

Released: 06 Mar 2009
 

Version 2.5, part of Release 2009a, includes the following enhancements:

• Enhanced rfckt.coaxial, rfckt.twowire, and rfckt.parallelplate objects, with more realistic model for dielectric loss
• New s2smm function for converting 4N-port single-ended S-parameters to 2N-port mixed-mode S-parameters
• New smm2s function for converting 2N-port mixed-mode S-parameters to 4N-port single-ended S-parameters
• Two new demos that show how to design a broadband impedance matching network for an antenna and an amplifier

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 2.4

Released: 09 Oct 2008
 

Version 2.4, part of Release 2008b, includes the following enhancements:

• Enhanced cascadesparams function, supporting N-port S-parameters
• Enhanced plotyy method, supporting all RF Toolbox™ parameters

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 2.3

Released: 01 Mar 2008
 

Version 2.3, part of Release 2008a, includes the following enhancements:

• New group delay, voltage gain, and stability factor computation and visualization from calculate and plot methods
• Alternate port arrangements now available in s2sdd, s2sdc, s2scd, and s2scc functions
• New gammams and gammaml functions for computing source and load reflection coefficients required for simultaneous conjugate match
• New z2gamma function for converting impedance values to reflection coefficients
• New "Writing a Touchstone File" demo and upgraded existing demos to reflect newest features
• Upgraded M-file help for objects and packages

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 2.2

Released: 01 Sep 2007
 

Version 2.2, part of Release 2007b, includes the following enhancements:

• New snp2smp function for converting N-port S-parameter data and termination impedances to M-port S-parameter data
• New circle method for placing circles on a Smith® Chart to depict stability regions and display constant gain, noise figure, reflection and immittance circles
• Support for plotting network parameters of devices with more than two ports on a Smith® Chart
• New powergain function for computing various power gains of a 2-port network
• New two-part Designing Matching Networks demo that shows how to use the new circle method (replaces two existing demos)
• Expanded Modeling a High-Speed Backplane demo that illustrates extraction of 4-port data from 16-port data

See the Release Notes for details.