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Sonnet User's Guide - Sonnet Software

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<strong>Sonnet</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Via Loss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />

Setting Losses for the Box Top and Bottom (Ground Plane) .<br />

56<br />

Dielectric Layer Loss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

Dielectric Layer Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />

Dielectric Layer Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

How to Create a New Dielectric Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

Dielectric Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

5 PORTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

Port Type Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

Port Normalizing Impedances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />

Changing Port Impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />

Special Port Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

Ports with Duplicate Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

Ports with Negative Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />

Changing Port Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

Port Placement with Symmetry On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

Standard Box Wall Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />

Adding Box wall Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />

Ref. Planes and Cal. Lengths for Box Wall Ports . . . . . . 69<br />

Co-calibrated Internal Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

Ground Node Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

Terminal Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

Adding Co-calibrated Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

Ref. Planes and Cal. Lengths for Co-calibrated Ports . . . 74<br />

Use in Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

Via Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

Adding Via Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />

Automatic-Grounded Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />

Special Considerations for Auto-Grounded Ports . . . . . . 77<br />

Adding Auto-grounded Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

Ref. Plane and Cal. Length for Autogrounded Ports . . . . 78<br />

Ungrounded Internal Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

6 COMPONENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

Component Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />

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