Qucs - Matching Circuits
Author: Michael Margraf

### - Qucs -
Quite Universal Circuit Simulator

# Matching Circuits

Creating matching circuits is an often needed task in microwave technology. Qucs can do this automatically. These are the neccessary steps:
- Perform an S-parameter simulation in order to calculate the reflexion coefficient.
- Place a diagram and display the reflexion coefficient (i.e. S[1,1] for port 1, S[2,2] for port 2 etc.)
- Set a marker on the graph and step to the desired frequency.
- Click with the right mouse button on the marker and select "power matching" in the appearing menu.
- A dialog appears where the values can be adjusted, for example the reference impedance can be chosen different from 50 ohms.
- After clicking "create" the page switches back to the schematic and by moving the mouse cursor the matching circuit can be placed.
The left-hand side of the matching circuit is the input and the right-hand side must be connected to the circuit.
If the marker points to a variable called "Sopt", the menu shows the option "noise matching". Note that the only different to "power matching" is the fact that the conjugate complex reflexion coefficient is taken. So if the variable has another name, noise matching can be chosen by re-adjusting the values in the dialog.
The matching dialog can also be called by menu (Tools->matching circuit) or by short-cut (<CTRL-5>). But then all values has to be entered manually.

### 2-Port Matching Circuits

If the variable name in the marker text is an S-parameter, then an option exists for concurrently matching input and output of a two-port circuit. This works quite alike the above-mentioned steps. It results in two L-circuits: The very left node is for connecting port 1, the very right node is for connectiong port 2 and the two node in the middle are for connecting the two-port circuit.
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