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EXAMPLE: 16_Way_Power_Divider

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16-WAY POWER DIVIDER This project demonstrates the design of a 16-Way Wilkinson microstrip power divider. The divider uses multiple stages of a four-section Wilkinson two-way divider. The MTRACE element is used for almost all of the transmission line sections, which allows complex layouts to be created and accurately simulated with a simple schematic representation. Simulation Details The schematic "Four Section Ideal Divider" shows the design of an ideal Wilkinson divider to demonstrate the achievable bandwidth with multiple sections. The transmission lines are ideal and lossless, and the resistors are lumped. Note the line impedances drop from the first to the last sections, as the resistor values increase. The schematic "Four Section MS Divider" shows a microstrip implementation of the ideal divider. The quarter-wave lines are modeled with MTRACE elements, which allow the designer to create the desired layout graphically by adding bends and stretching segments of the trace in the layout view. Because the AWR Design Environment uses a single database for layout and simulation, the electrical model of the MTRACE is automatically updated as the user adds bends and line segments to the layout. When simulated, all these elements are accounted for, and the result is the same as if the user had placed individual MLINs and MBENDS in the schematic. The layout of the divider is kept symmetric with another powerful feature of the AWR Design Environment: the parameters of one element can be derived from another. For example, as the MTRACE of one quarter-wave section is stretched; the arm on the other side of the isolation resistor mirrors it exactly. This is true during tuning or optimizing as well. To see how this is done, bring up the Element Options dialog by double-clicking on the schematic symbol for MTRACE.X2 (in the first section of the divider, on the bottom half of the schematic.) Click on the 'Show Secondary' button. Note that the variables W, L, DB, and RB use the syntax W@MTRACE.X1 , L@MTRACE.X1 , etc, which means that they are set equal to the same variables in MTRACE.X1 . The schematic "16 Way Power Divider" uses the same techniques as the "Four Section MS Divider" to create a detailed layout with a relatively simple schematic. The lines connecting the "Four Section Ideal Divider" sub-circuits are all symmetric, deriving their parameters from the top-most MTRACE in each stage.

Schematic - 16_Way_Power_Divider

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Schematic Layout - 16_Way_Power_Divider

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Graph - Four Section Ideal Divider Performance

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Graph - 16 Way Divider Input Return Loss

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