General Passive Network

Model two-port passive network described by rfdata object

• Library:

• RF Blockset / Equivalent Baseband / Black Box Elements

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Description

The General Passive Network block models the two-port passive network described by an RF Toolbox™ data (rfdata.data) object.

If network parameter data and their corresponding frequencies exist as S-parameters in the rfdata.data object, the General Passive Network block interpolates the S-parameters to determine their values at the modeling frequencies. If the block contains network Y- or Z-parameters, the block first converts them to S-parameters. See Map Network Parameters to Modeling Frequencies for more details.

To learn how you can use General Passive Network block to model 2-port bandpass filter, see Import Data Files into RF Blocks section of Specify or Import Component Data example.

Parameters

Main

Data source — Data source that describes the passive device behaviour

Data file (default) | RFDATA object

Data source that describes the passive device behaviour, specified as a Data file or an RFDATA object. The data source must contain network parameters and may also include noise data, nonlinearity data, or both.

Data file — Name of file that contains passive device data

passive.s2p (default) | string | character vector

Name of file that contains the passive device data, specified as a string or a character vector. The file name must include the extension. If the file is not in your MATLAB^® path, specify the full path to the file or click the Browse button to find the file.

Dependencies

To enable this parameter, choose Data file in Data source.

RFDATA object — RF data object that contains passive device data

read(rfdata.data, 'passive.s2p') (default) | rfdata.data object |

RF data object that contains passive device data, specified as an RF Toolbox rfdata.data object. You can also use an expression such as the default value to create an rfdata.data object from an .s2p file.

Interpolation method — Method to interpolate network parameters

Linear (default) | Spline | Cubic

Method to interpolate the network parameters, specified as one of the following:

Method	Description
Linear	Linear interpolation
Spline	Cubic spline interpolation
Cubic	Piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation

Visualization

Source of frequency data — Frequency data source

Extracted from data source (default) | User-specified

Frequency data source, specified as Extracted from data source or User-specified.

Frequency data — Frequency data range

[0.3e6:1e:6e9] (default) | vector

Frequency data range, specified as a vector with each element unit in hertz.

Reference impedance (ohms) — Reference impedance

50 (default) | nonnegative scalar

Reference impedance, specified as a nonnegative scalar in ohms.

Plot type — Type of data plot

X-Y plane (default) | Composite data | Polar plane | Z Smith chart | Y Smith chart | ZY Smith chart

Type of data plot to visualize using the given data, specified as one of the following:

• X-Y plane — Generate a Cartesian plot of the data versus frequency. To create linear, semilog, or log-log plots, set the Y-axis scale and X-axis scale accordingly.

• Composite data — Plot the composite data.

• Polar plane — Generate a polar plot of the data. The block plots only the range of data corresponding to the specified frequencies.

• Z smith chart, Y smith chart, and ZY smith chart — Generate a Smith^® chart. The block plots only the range of data corresponding to the specified frequencies.

Y parameter1 — Type of parameters to plot

S11 (default) | S12 | S21 | S22 | GroupDelay | OIP3 | IIP3 | NF | ...

Type of S-Parameters to plot, specified as one of the following. When noise is spectral, NF plotting is possible.

S11	S12	S21	S22
GroupDelay	GammaIn	GammaOut	VSWRIn
VSWROut	OIP3	IIP3	NF
NFactor	NTemp	TF1	TF2
TF3	Gt	Ga	Gp
Gmag	Gmsg	GammaMS	GammaML
K	Delta	Mu	MuPrime

Y parameter2 — Type of parameters to plot

S11 (default) | S12 | S21 | S22 | GroupDelay | OIP3 | IIP3 | NF | ...

Type of S-Parameters to plot, specified as one of the following. When noise is spectral, NF plotting is possible.

S11	S12	S21	S22
GroupDelay	GammaIn	GammaOut	VSWRIn
VSWROut	OIP3	IIP3	NF
NFactor	NTemp	TF1	TF2
TF3	Gt	Ga	Gp
Gmag	Gmsg	GammaMS	GammaML
K	Delta	Mu	MuPrime

Y format1 — Plot format

Magnitude (decibels) (default) | Abs | Mag | Magnitude (linear) | Angle | Real | Imaginary | ...

Plot format, specified as one of the following.

dB	Magnitude (decibels)	Abs	Mag
Magnitude (linear)	Angle	Angle(degrees)	Angle(radians)
Real	Imag	Imaginary

Y format2 — Plot format

Magnitude (decibels) (default) | Abs | Mag | Magnitude (linear) | Angle | Real | Imaginary | ...

Plot format, specified as one of the following.

dB	Magnitude (decibels)	Abs	Mag
Magnitude (linear)	Angle	Angle(degrees)	Angle(radians)
Real	Imag	Imaginary

X parameter — Frequency plot

Freq (default)

Frequency plot, specified as Freq.

X format — Frequency plot format

Hz (default) | Auto | kHz | MHz | GHz | THz

Frequency plot format, specified as one of the following.

Auto	Hz	kHz	MHz
GHz	THz

Y scale — Y-axis scale

Linear (default) | Log

Y-axis scale, specified as Linear or Log.

X scale — X-axis scale

Linear (default) | Log

X-axis scale, specified as Linear or Log.

Plot — Plot specified data

button

Plot specified data using the plot button.