APPLICATION OF FLOW GRAPHS IN THE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS SYSTEMS
Abstract
Flow graphs are the effective tool for description of the complicated microwave measurement systems and usually are used in the process of creating measurement equation. The algorithm which can find this equation is known as the Mason's gain formula (MGF). This operation needs to perform a lot of symbolic computations so performing of this algorithm without proper software is heavy and is vulnerable to appearing some errors. This paper shows which existing scripts for MATLAB can be use to perform this task.
Keywords:
flow graphs, Mason's gain formula (MGF), scattering parameters, microwave measurementReferences
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Przemysław Pirógprzemekpirog@gmail.com
Central Military Calibration Laboratory, Warsaw Poland
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