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Fero wrote:
"what is the difference between RF-circuit board ( high frequency ) and non-RF-circuit board ? What happen when I use non-RF-circuit board for 900 MHz frequency ? " It could be the dielectric substrate material of the board as Ralph wrote, or it could also be just how the board is laid out. At least, it's not quite clear to me from your question that it's strictly the board material. As for material, for low-power things at least, we generally don't bother with expensive Duroid or Teflon or similar substrates out to 1GHz. We find that good FR-4 fiberglass-epoxy material will usually work OK. One of the concerns that you should be aware of, though, is that the dielectric constant of FR-4 is NOT as well controlled as the dielectric constant of the better (and much more expensive) RF substrates. Also, the dielectric constant for FR-4 is quite a bit higher, leading to narrower traces and therefore higher loss, to achieve the same transmission line impedances (or smaller pads to get the same capacitance). So if you have a layout designed for some particular dielectric constant and it uses transmission lines and/or physical structures to do filtering or impedance matching, expect to have to modify it to work properly if you use a different substrate material. Obviously, it's also important to pay attention to the dielectric thickness if you're trying to get particular microstrip impedances. The freeware "RFSim99" program has a tool for doing some simple microstrip calcs, and you should be able to find web applets that cover much more complicated cases like buried microstrip, stripline, balanced microstrip, etc. You can also find free/student/trial programs that analyze more complex structures, though all that may be going well beyond what you're interested in. Cheers, Tom |
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