Saturday, 10 November 2018

rf - Connect SMA to a regular pin/wire


I have an RF signal (5ns pulses every 200ns) coming out from a SMA connector on FPGA board (Spartan 3E Starter Kit). I want to send this signal back to the FPGA using one of the on-board pins.


So, I cut of one end of the SMA to SMA connector cable, hoping to use it for inputing the signal back to FPGA. I tested the waveform on the oscilloscope to find that the output signal was in mV range instead of around 3.3V range (input signal).


So, have I made a mistake? Is there any alternative way which I could follow?




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