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Understanding Suspended Substrate Stripline Filters
Suspended substrate stripline filter technology offers many advantages for designers looking for wide passbands, deep rejection and sharp roll-off in the transition. By utilizing air cavities instead of dielectric materials used in traditional stripline fabrications, these filters achieve better Q and better thermal stability, making them suitable for many high-performance applications in a wide range of operating conditions. This practical overview explains everything you need to know about Mini-Circuits' line of suspended substrate filters and multiplexers.
Navigating Amplifier Thermal Analysis
Most Mini-Circuits connectorized amplifiers are offered with and without heat sinks to give customers the freedom to design their own custom heat sink if desired. Amplifier thermal characteristics are provided on every datasheet, but there's more than one way to go about thermal analysis depending on what information is explicitly specified. This app note reviews the basic calculations you'll need to navigate the process for any amplifier model in our portfolio!
Connector-O-Matic: The Only RF Adapter You’ll Ever Need
Why waste time searching the lab for that one exotic RF adapter you haven't seen in weeks when you can use one adapter to replace them all? Connector-O-Matic is the only RF interconnect solution that connects any connector type and gender combination from DC to 67 GHz. Read on to learn more!
RF/Microwave Equalizers: An Essential Ingredient for the Modern System Designer
Gain flatness specifications have become more demanding for receiver and transmitter operating across wider bandwidths as modern military, satellite and wireless communications systems evolve. Gain a better understanding of how fixed equalizers are an essential element in wideband system designs, as well as their effects on other system parameters like noise figure, IP3 and P1dB.
Test Equipment that Adapts to Your Changing Needs
Modular test systems give you the ability to configure hardware for your unique needs with fast turnaround times and lower cost than a custom design. But what happens when your needs change? Mini-Circuits ZTM-series modular test systems make it easy to reconfigure your hardware as needed at minimal cost and without replacing the whole system. See how our modular solution helped one communications equipment manufacturer save time and effort in their current and future test setups.
A Quick Guide to Mixer Topologies
Mini-Circuits offers hundreds of mixer models representing six different circuit topologies. While this variety gives designers options for just about every application, it can also complicate the component selection process. This quick guide provides a comparison of the different mixer topologies to help you decide which one is right for your requirements.
Choosing an LNA for your Receiver Front End
Gain an understanding of why the low noise amplifier (LNA) is so important to the performance of your receiver chain, review the common tradeoffs designers make in choosing the right LNA for a given system, and explore some of Mini-Circuits' popular LNA designs.
A Quick Guide to RF & Microwave Filter Topologies
A brief guide on the basic performance characteristics of the common topologies used to design RF filters, as well as the general application requirements each topology can (and can’t) support.
Just In Time for the Holidays
Mini-Circuits' Test Solutions team is in the business of performing miracles for customers, but this success story from holiday seasons past really demonstrates the speed, flexibility and quality that's earned the trust of some of the telecom industry's biggest names.
Understanding Heterojunction-Bipolar-Transistor (HBT) Based MMIC Amplifiers
Prior to the invention of the transistor, telephone exchanges were built using bulky vacuum tubes and mechanical relays. Bell Labs engineers were tasked with developing the transistor (a portmanteau of “transfer resistor”) as a smaller, less cumbersome alternative to the existing technology.
Wideband Connectorized Amplifiers Support Over-The-Air (OTA) Transmitter & Receiver Testing for 5G FR2 Bands
Over-the-air (OTA) testing allows engineers to simulate real-world device performance under different conditions in the lab environment. See how Mini-Circuits high-frequency amplifiers support OTA test setups for transmit and receive paths in mmWave applications.
Novel MMIC Splitter/Combiner Designs Achieve High Isolation Down to DC
Designers typically face a tradeoff in selecting splitter/combiners between the low frequency coverage, bandwidth and low unbalance of resistive designs, and the better insertion loss and isolation of Wilkinson designs at higher frequencies. Learn about how Mini-Circuits' novel, patent-pending, resistive / reactive MMIC splitter/combiners achieve the best of both worlds.