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The Diplexer-Combined, Broadband Power Amplifier
Frequency multiplexers serve to either divide (demultiplex) the frequency spectrum into multiple sub-bands, or perform the complementary function of frequency multiplexing, wherein two or more sub-bands are combined to form a broader frequency spectrum. While diplexers are a 3-port component, their suffix correctly implies that they are comprised of 2 ports for the individual sub-bands..
How to Build a High-Performance SSB Upconverter
Upconverters are ubiquitous in modern RF systems, translating everything from baseband quadrature DDS signals to many of today’s mmWave signals. An X-band upconverter with sideband suppression utilizing an IQ mixer is prototyped in this article to enable the reader to better understand the up-conversion process and the mathematics behind sideband suppression itself.
5 Reasons Core-and-Wire RF Components Aren’t Going Anywhere
Mini-Circuits continues to support RF designs with core-and-wire components, emphasizing their wideband performance, compact size, high power handling, cost-efficiency, and reliability, essential for modern systems despite industry shifts toward newer technologies.
RF Measurement Devices in Modern Production Test Lines
Manufacturing modern electronic devices and products places a high demand on cost, schedule and quality and simply trying to optimize 2 of these 3 performance attributes can be challenging. Driven by customer requirements as well as advances in technology, “what is possible” is rapidly changing across the manufacturing realm.
Precision Phase Stable Flex Cables Are Here!
Mini-Circuits’ new CBN-series of phase-stable flexible cables supports a wide range of precision test applications from DC to 26.5 GHz. CBN-series models provide exceptional phase and amplitude stability (±6˚, ±0.08 dB @ 26.5 GHz) in bend radii as small as 50 mm.
1.5W MMIC PA Delivers Bandwidth, Power & Linearity
With a P1dB of +32.2 dBm and a PSAT of +32.6 dBm, Mini-Circuits’ PMA3-43-1W+ operates over 2+ decades of bandwidth with an outstanding combination of linearity, noise figure and gain.
0.5W MMIC Driver – Drop-In Compatible with Your Layout
The AVA-223MP+ medium power MMIC amplifier exhibits excellent gain flatness over a multi-decade bandwidth with 0.5W output power at saturation and high OIP3.
Fundamentals of Measuring Wideband RF Signals
The ongoing drive to transmit and receive more information wirelessly in a given bandwidth forces modern RF systems to continually increase their spectral efficiency. Some of the earliest commercial wireless systems from several decades ago utilized channel bandwidths of a just few kHz. With more and more pressure being placed on wireless systems
Dual-Channel Signal Generator
The Mini-Circuits’ SSG-8N12GD-RC dual-channel signal generator delivers a dynamic range of -55 dBm to +23 dBm to two independent channels capable of coherent or non-coherent operation over 360˚⁰ of phase range. This multi-mode generator offers CW, pulsed, AM, FM and chirp modulation options as well as automated sweep and hop sequences over frequency and power.
New 1W PA Amps Up Performance AND Value
Mini-Circuits’ continues to expand the PMA3-series of wideband MMIC amplifiers by pushing drive power beyond 1W while maintaining cost-effectiveness. The PMA3-73-1W+ delivers P1dB of 1.5W and PSAT of over 2W while exhibiting a remarkably low noise figure of 2.5 dB
Care & Handling of RF/Microwave Connectors
RF connectors directly impact system performance. Impedance mismatch, insertion loss, and return loss are just a few of the parameters that affect the reliability, repeatability and accuracy of an RF measurement or system.
MMIC IQ Mixers to 40 GHz
Mini-Circuits’ SMIQ-series of +18 dBm LO power, wideband, low conversion loss IQ MMIC mixers is ideal for use in sensitive Rx and Tx applications. Wideband RF, LO, and IF ports make the SMIQ-series suitable for many applications in 5G mmWave