Calvin & Hobbes

By Bill Watterson

CALVIN AND HOBBES 1986 Watterson. Reprinted with permission of UNIVERSAL UCLICK. All rights reserved.

Two-Port S-Parameters
Takashi Ohira

two-port network consists of two 50- resistors, as

shown in Figure 1. Find its S matrix with a standard
50- reference. Which of the following is correct?
0.2
a) ;
0.4
0.4
c) ;
0.6

0.4
0.3 0.5
E b) ;
E
- 0.2
0.5 - 0.3
0.6
0.5 0.7
E d) ;
E.
- 0.4
0.7 - 0.5

Takashi Ohira (ohira@tut.jp) is with Toyohashi University of Technology,

Aichi, Japan. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MMM.2016.2593989
Date of publication: 8 September 2016

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50

#1

50

#2

Figure 1. Calculate the S-parameters in a 50- system.

Try solving with a pencil and paper and not using a circuit simulator. Enjoy this until next months issue reveals the
correct answer.


October 2016