PicoVNA™ 106 vector network analyzer

Measuring functions

Measuring parameters

S

11, S21, S22, S12

P1dB, 1 dB gain compression

AM-PM conversion factor

Error correction

12 error term full S-parameter correction (insertable DUT)

12 error term full S-parameter correction (non-insertable DUT)

8 error term full S-parameter unknown thru correction (non-insertable DUT)

S

11 (1-port correction)

De-embed (2 embedding networks may be specified)

Impedance conversion

S

21 (normalize, normalize + isolation)

S

21 (source match correction + normalize + isolation)

Averaging, smoothing

Hanning and Kaiser–Bessel filtering on time-domain measurements

Electrical length compensation (manual)

Electrical length compensation (auto)

Effective dielectric constant correction

Display channels

4 channels

Traces

2 traces per display channel

Display formats

Amplitude (logarithmic and linear), phase, group delay, VSWR, real,

imaginary, Smith chart, polar, time domain

Memory trace

One per display channel

Limit lines

6 segments per channel (overlap allowed)

Markers

8 markers

Marker functions

Normal, Δ marker, fixed marker, peak / min. hold, 3 dB and 6 dB bandwidth

Sweep functions

Sweep type

Linear sweep

CW sweep (timed sweep)

Power sweep (P1dB utility)

Sweep times

Bandwidth

S

21 cal

12-term cal

140 kHz

25 ms

37 ms

10 kHz

52 ms

90 ms

1 kHz

306 ms

0.6 s

100 Hz

2.85 s

5.7 s

10 Hz

28.5 s

57 s

10 MHz to 6 GHz, 201 point sweep

Number of sweep points, VNA mode

51, 101, 201, 401, 801, 1001, 2001, 4001, 5001, 6001, 7001, 8001,

9001,10001

Number of sweep points, TDR mode

512, 1024, 2048, 4096