by minicircuitsadmin | Feb 1, 2023 | 90- and 180-Degree Hybrids, Amplifiers, Engineering Resources
A balanced amplifier is the proper term for a pair of devices operated in quadrature phase and combined to amplify a signal. Quadrature simply means that signals incident upon the devices are 90⁰ out-of-phase with one another. The term “quadrature-combined pair”...
by Rinchen Athup | Jan 13, 2023 | Product Updates
HUNDREDS OF NEW MODELS 2022 Highlights A Year of Innovation 2022 was a year of many breakthroughs for Mini-Circuits’ product line, from amplifiers extending up to E-Band to high-rejection LTCC filters and much more. In case you lost track among the hundreds of...
by minicircuitsadmin | Dec 8, 2022 | Amplifiers, Attenuators, Engineering Resources, Filters, Frequency Mixers
The predecessor to this article reviewed cascade analysis for P1dB and IP3 in a simple, three-component receiver front-end. In that example, the LNA was the only non-linear component in the system, significantly simplifying calculations for linearity parameters. The...
by minicircuitsadmin | Nov 15, 2022 | Amplifiers, Attenuators, Engineering Resources, Filters, Fixed Attenuators / Terminations, Frequency Mixers, News
A prior article in this series explained cascade analysis of noise level, noise floor, bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio for a simple RF front end with a single gain stage. In this application note, we’ll build on the same concept to guide the designer though...
by minicircuitsadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Engineering Resources, Filters, Product Updates
Standard Footprint Sizes Allow Drop-In Replacement with Thousands of LTCC Filter Models Experienced engineers often take some creative license inserting filters into component cascades to filter out a myriad of undesired signals. For example, mixer spurs at the IF...
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