by minicircuitsadmin | Jul 23, 2019 | Engineering Resources, VCOs
VCOs are capable of low noise and high stability with the convenience of tunable frequency for applications requiring reliable clock timing. Timing is everything for many systems, especially for modern electronic systems with high-speed data converters and...
by minicircuitsadmin | Jul 15, 2019 | Engineering Resources, VCOs
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...
by minicircuitsadmin | Oct 6, 2015 | Engineering Resources, VCOs
The basic form of a phase locked loop (PLL) consists of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a phase detector (PD), and a filter. In its more general form (Figure 1), the PLL may also contain a mixer and a digital divider. In the steady state, the frequency of the...
by minicircuitsadmin | Sep 6, 2015 | Engineering Resources, VCOs
The design example covered here is an 800 to 900 MHz synthesizer in 100 kHz steps with a minimum output power of 10 mW across the band. Mini-Circuits model POS-1060, a low noise voltage controlled oscillator that operates over the range of 750 to 1060 MHz, is used....
by minicircuitsadmin | Aug 8, 2015 | Engineering Resources, VCOs
Practical Techniques It is always a good design philosophy to provide RF bypassing of power and DC control lines to the VCO. This is indeed the case when the VCO is located some distance away from the power supply. RF chokes and good bypassing capacitors of...
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