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A novel matching method of electronic calibration kit and various brands vector network analyzer (referred to as VNA) is proposed. In this method, the program is used to simultaneously control the electronic calibration kit and the VNA to realize automatic scanning, discovery, connection of the VNA, automatic port detection and calibration of the electronic calibration kit. This calibration technology can be used to implement an electronic calibration kit used on mainstream VNAs from different manufacturers without changing the existing hardware platform. Reduce the cost of using electronic calibration, simplify steps, and expand the use of electronic calibration kit.

In this paper, an improved through line-based fixture de-embedding method is proposed. By interpolating the original measurement S-parameter magnitude and phase of the vector network analyzer and obtaining the fixture parameters, the time resolution and time range changes of the existing method can be avoided. At the same time, the parameters of the fixture can be obtained without changing the instrument settings, and the applicability of the fixture de-embedding method based on the through line is improved. Finally, the effectiveness of the method was verified by testing the high-speed USB type C cable.

With the rapid development of components, we need higher measurement accuracy on the power testing. The traditional VNAs can calibrate the source power and the receiver, but did not consider the mismatch between DUT and the VNA 's port, resulting in a direct error in the receiver calibration. In this paper, a match corrected receiver calibration for VNAs is proposed to improve the power measurement accuracy.

When measuring a non-insertable device using a vector network analyzer, calibration based on eight-term error model such as TRL or SOLR is commonly used. The VNA is in the form of a single reference receiver, and the signals of the two reference receivers cannot be measured simultaneously during calibration. In this paper, we propose a method based on different error models transformation to calculate the switching error terms and realize the eight-term error model calibration of single reference receiver VNAs.

Before measuring a multiport DUT (device under test), we should calibrate multiport VNA to reduce the systematic errors. It is import to reduce the calibrating steps. The paper explores a new method to decrease calibrating steps by computing redundant error parameters. This method can decrease through connections from Cn2 to n − 1, reduce errors of repeating connections, and avoid operation mistakes. This method can also avoid non-insertable calibration. The new method has been used successfully to measure an airline.