Mini-Circuits MMIC Team Growing in SoCal

Daniel Gordon, Contributor at Large In the perfect location for talent, logistics, and quality of life, Mini-Circuits’ Carlsbad, California office is becoming a new hub for MMIC design, augmenting the robust MMIC operations of Mini-Circuits Technologies (MCT) in...
VCO Footprints

VCO Footprints

Layout Considerations to Improve Performance Three basic types of VCO’s are manufactured by Mini-Circuits: plug-in, surface mount, and connectorized versions. To obtain the best overall performance from Mini-Circuits VCO’s, good RF practices should be...
A Practical Approach to the Design and Implementation of Scalable, High-Performance, Custom SMT Packages for mmWave Applications

A Practical Approach to the Design and Implementation of Scalable, High-Performance, Custom SMT Packages for mmWave Applications

Abstract After many years of research and development, electrical engineers, physicists, mathematicians and scientists have come to realize the benefits of operating communications systems at higher frequencies. Some of the most notable advances stemming from this...