A new solution for 10Mhz-10Ghz portable Vector Network Analyzer

[zasml]

Does any one pay attention to the new solution from ADI ?
I love the Bidirectional coupler inside this chip~

https://www.analog.com/en/products/adl5960.html

[tautech]

Yep seen it a few months back..........

[jjoonathan]

Yes, but I didn't see any pricing info then and I still don't see any pricing info now... but given that this is ADI, I'm inclined to suspect that the price is somewhere between "barely better than the alternative" and "lol."

Hope springs eternal, though!

[DaJMasta]

1-100MHz IF bandwidth means your wide span measurements are going to work well but you aren't going to see anything when you zoom in.  I guess the application is with wideband communications equipment that needs so much bandwidth that you get reasonable resolution with a 1MHz IF bandwidth.

[coromonadalix]

An evaluation board at 279$  usd     loll

[jjoonathan]

Wait, eval board at 279? Are you sure there isn't another zero on there? That's, like, the price of an eval board for a good op amp. Maybe it will be priced to shake things up after all.

[DaJMasta]

Yeah, $279 for anything close to a VNA with 20GHz of bandwidth is unprecedented pricerange, even if the application and performance is more limited.

[zasml]

the analog if bw is 1Mhz～100MHz，but you can get much narrow if bw with digital processing...，there should  be two ADCs follows after ADL5960.
Two ADL5960 can make 4 port VNA.