Commit Graph

30 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kelvin Ly a31bae2e8a Test out noisy series operations; at least the function runs successfully 2019-07-05 00:32:14 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 792a752016 Rerun low_noise.ipynb using more accurate Vce value 2019-06-29 21:45:43 -04:00
Kelvin Ly fd493b1ef4 Work on LNA staging, attenuator design, various fixes elsewhere 2019-06-29 21:45:12 -04:00
Kelvin Ly f4fce42788 Update so that it works witth the current scikit-rf master; TODO figure out how to version scikit-rf 2019-06-28 01:19:19 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 4d42fd08e5 Finish TX mixer; added IF buffer 2019-06-25 23:39:33 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 94832c78b6 FIx merge conflicts 2019-06-19 10:55:16 -04:00
Kelvin Ly c042944bab Fix symbol tables I guess 2019-06-19 10:49:32 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 8e8de32691 Save changes while moving over to the new laptop 2019-06-19 07:50:05 -04:00
Kelvin Ly cfbe925fda Lower bias current to 5 mA 2019-05-17 23:06:11 -04:00
Kelvin Ly a71bee2866 Fix typo that was messing up conjugate match calculations 2019-05-17 22:42:40 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 1f4c96e8d7 Second stage almost working, still off for some reason 2019-05-17 08:29:11 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 1d474bbd32 Almost working LNA first and second stage; need to figure out why the second stage isn't conjugatively matching correctly 2019-05-17 01:32:47 -04:00
Kelvin Ly a599c25d56 Work on LNA design; looks like minimal matching produces the best results 2019-05-14 09:05:09 -04:00
Kelvin Ly bc29d8c3a5 Picked matched NPNs for IF amplifier stages 2019-04-30 23:45:05 -04:00
Kelvin Ly e0cf34e057 Capture IF amplifier stages and work on LNA stages 2019-04-28 23:56:20 -04:00
Kelvin Ly e1d250ba8e Fix scattering parameter phase calculations 2019-04-18 07:49:57 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 0721bb8db1 Finish diode mixer simulations and capture in schematic 2019-04-17 07:52:20 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 8af98d3163 Finish active mixer simulation; it looks good! 2019-04-15 08:30:11 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 4fb7daebca Match mixer LO input and RF output to 50 ohms 2019-04-14 02:59:21 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 5786d3573c Move qucsdata to the right directory 2019-04-13 23:27:34 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 5337f68e3e Copy in qucs Python files to process Qucs data in Python 2019-04-13 23:18:44 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 2e5082f8f0 Finish first draft of LO amplifier 2019-04-13 18:49:50 -04:00
Kelvin Ly b9aec35934 LO amplifier simulation is pretty close to done; it seems like the BFU520XR will just barely do the job; compression point is >6 dBm, amplifier seems sufficiently stable 2019-04-13 15:17:12 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 01fa8e4fd9 Ignore QUCS-generated files 2019-04-13 09:22:36 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 2a1839f8bb Add SPICE models for BFU520* 2019-04-13 09:21:46 -04:00
Kelvin Ly d250165add Start work on power amplifier stage and LO amplifier 2019-04-13 09:21:21 -04:00
Kelvin Ly c519479121 Start work on schematics 2019-04-13 09:20:46 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 9062c59230 Add NXP BFU520 scattering parameters 2019-03-19 01:09:50 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 59b4ee9036 Test out cascading them to get more gain 2019-03-19 01:09:00 -04:00
Kelvin Ly 9f7bc578b4 Work on power amplifier design; got the matching networks set up, and they seem to work, a part from being almost marginally unstable 2019-03-19 01:08:36 -04:00