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EEE325 LABORATORY ON
MICROWAVE ENGINEERING
2021/09
Week 1
DINESH PERIANNAN/DR INTAN
Dinesh Periannan
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• Lab Officer
• Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia
• dinesh.periannan@xmu.edu.my
• +601158893081
• Wechat QR

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1. Introduction to 2. Simulation tools for microwave design 3. Microwave passive and active components
microwave EDA i) Microwave network analysis design
- S-parameter i) Microwave Filter Design
i) Circuit simulation ii) Power Amplifier Design
ii) Impedance matching and tuning iii) Oscillator Design
ii) Tuning and optimization - Smith Chart iv) Antenna Design

iii) Microwave resonator

- Series and Parallel resonant circuit
- Transient simulation

iv) Microwave amplifier

- Harmonic balance simulation

v) Antenna
- Microstrip patch antenna
- FEM Simulation
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Introduction to Microwave EDA

Circuit simulation
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II. Select the libraries to be included in the workspace.

ADS natively provide Analog/RF and DSP
components library and it can be selected as needed
in actual design work under the workspace.
Component libraries provided in ADS can be added by
clicking on the link Add User Favourite Library/PDK
(all vendor component libraries are provided in zipped
format under:
<ADS_install_dir>/oalibs/componentLib/
folder)
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III. Provide the library name under which user would like
to organize the work. This library is not to be confused
with component vendor or 3rd party libraries. This is
new way in which ADS2011 organizes the design
schematics/layouts in a workspace and every
workspace can contain multiple libraries in which we
can organize our work consisting of multiple
technologies e.g. GaAs, GaN, InP, SiGe etc. While we
keep 1 library for each technology ADS2011 provides
the capability to use these designs under a single
main design to perform Multi-Technology designs. It
may be noted that in ADS2011, schematic and layout
units are also considered to different technologies and
it is recommended not to mix the units which we use
in design. i.e. mil, mm, um etc. Click on Next.
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IV. Select the preferred units to be used during the

design. In present example we select mil with 0.0001
mil layout resolution.
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V. Click on Next and see the summary of the workspace

and click on Finish and blank workspace as shown
below will appear and we are ready to create our
schematic or layout designs in the newly created
workspace.
 Step 2: Creating Schematic Design
Usually circuit design will start from the schematic entry.
To start the schematic design we can begin from File-
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>New->Schematic or by clicking on the Schematic icon on
the main window toolbar.

I. Enter the desired cell name (e.g. Discrete LPF) and

select the Schematic Design Template as
ads_templates: S_Params (for S-Parameter
simulation). Selecting template is an optional step but
it is good feature to have because it saves our effort of
setting up the design for the simulation. Click OK…
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II. A new schematic page with two 50-ohm terminations

and a S-parameter controller placed on it with default
frequency settings should be visible. If template was
not selected during new schematic creation then we
can placed required components for SP simulation by
going to appropriate Simulation category e.g.
Simulation-S_Param, Simulation-HB etc.
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III. Now let’s start creating a circuit, go to Lumped with

Artwork library as shown here, place L_Pad and
C_Pad components on the schematic to form a Low
Pass Filter Topology as shown in the figure below.
L_Pad and C_Pad are normal inductor and capacitors
but it also includes footprint information and designers
can enter desired width, spacing and length of the
component as per the component which might be
used for actual PCB design.
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IV. Double click on the S-Parameter controller and set the

parameter as following:

Start = 0.01 GHz Stop = 1 GHz

Num. of points = 101 (step size will be

automatically calculated) Click OK…

V. Click on Simulate icon (or press F7) to start the

simulation.
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VI. Once done, data display showing the simulation

results as shown.
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VII. Save the design to save all the work and

inspect the main window to notice the
schematic cell and data display.
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Lets go for the demonstration