{"title":"Compensating Digital Attenuator Differential Phase Shift","authors":"W. Ciccognani, F. Giannini, E. Limiti, P. Longhi","doi":"10.1109/COMITE.2008.4569947","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Controlled attenuators are key elements in a phased array's beam forming network and generally in all those systems requiring accurate control of the RF signal's amplitude and phase. Therefore the realisation of constant- phase digital attenuators is essential to obtain advanced system performance. A reactive element has been inserted in the traditional T topology digital attenuator to obtain equiphase condition and design equations have been inferred for optimum design. A MMIC X-Band 5-BIT constant-phase attenuator system has been designed and realised as a test vehicle for the proposed methodology.","PeriodicalId":306289,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Conference on Microwave Techniques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 14th Conference on Microwave Techniques","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMITE.2008.4569947","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Controlled attenuators are key elements in a phased array's beam forming network and generally in all those systems requiring accurate control of the RF signal's amplitude and phase. Therefore the realisation of constant- phase digital attenuators is essential to obtain advanced system performance. A reactive element has been inserted in the traditional T topology digital attenuator to obtain equiphase condition and design equations have been inferred for optimum design. A MMIC X-Band 5-BIT constant-phase attenuator system has been designed and realised as a test vehicle for the proposed methodology.