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The very long-term HP leadership in network analysis measurement has provided the electronic engineering community with a huge amount of technical documentation on the subject. Application notes, product notes and seminar literature have been published and updated each time a new product or an important technology evolution offered a step forward to the HP customer.
You will find below the homemade scans of the various documents available in our collection having a major interest for the unterstanding of the various Network Analysis Measurement Techniques in general, and with the HP 8510 systems in particular.
The following documents recap all the basic knowledge required to achieve the best measurements possible using the network analyzers produced by HP, from the early 1960s through 2000. Today's Network Analyzers integrate a lot of processor power to improve the ease of use and to gain in measurement accuracy. But the most sophisticated instruments don't replace a perfect knowledge of network analysis fundamentals.
Cover of the AN-95 Courtesy of the Hewlett-Packard Company |
S-Parameters. . . Circuit analysis and design
PDF File from the original 1968 Application Note (14.8 Mb)
Cover of the AN-95A Courtesy of the Hewlett-Packard Company |
Selected Reprints on S-Parameters. . . Circuit analysis and design
PDF File from the original February 1973 Application Note (9.9 Mb)
Cover of the AN-95-1 Courtesy of the Hewlett-Packard Company |
S-Parameters Techniques for faster, more accurate network design
A 1993 re-edition of the original AN-95 Application Note (9.9 Mb)
Cover of the AN-117-1 Courtesy of the Hewlett-Packard Company |
Microwave Network Analyzer Applications
PDF File from the original 1970 Application Note (12.9 Mb)