What if I just put the source to the ground without anything in between? how significant of a change would the circuit be affected without the inductor/transmission line at the source? since you said before "but at 2.4 GHz, it is imperative that the source sees a zero impedance to ground." couldn't I just give the source a direct path to ground, and I would still get ok stability and gain?
All I care is that I get good stability (I am just testing from an input and output termination of 50 ohms) and good gain. I dont care about NF right now, cause I am not interested in that right now.
If you have time for another question, I was wondering how did Agilent get the matching network design for L1/C1 and L4/C4 (from: **broken link removed** because when I do a bilateral match (while I keep stability circles outside and tangent to the smith chart, which is best when designing bilateral matching circuit, correct?) I do not get component values that are anything close to what their values were for L1/C1 and L4/C4, why would this be?
thanks