TSP #134 - Teardown, Repair & Analysis of an Agilent N5230A PNA-L Network Analyzer (Part 1)

In this two-part episode Shahriar repairs an Agilent N5230A PNA-L which suffers from un-leveled output in full frequency sweep range. The instrument is not able to produce any outputs above -25dBm above and shows below specification output power levels below . Teardown of the unit reveals various microwave modules with the SSLAM final module responsible for amplitude leveling and frequency multiplication for frequencies above . Teardown of this module shows a collection of MMI