What Makes a Hi-Rel Amplifier Hi-Rel? The main application for High Reliability (Hi-Rel) RF/microwave amplifiers is for military, defense, aerospace, and other critical applications where device reliability is otherwise mission critical. In essence, a Hi-Rel Amplifier is just an amplifier that meets one or more military standards for reliability. In order to ensure device and...
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Menlo Micro's MM5130 DC-to-26-GHz High-Power RF Switch Eval Kit The MM5130 provides ultra-low insertion loss and excellent linearity as an SP4T from dc to 18 GHz, and greater than 3 billion switching cycles. The MM5130 device is a high-power SP4T micro-mechanical switch offered by Menlo Micro. The company took its Ideal Switch fabrication process and applied...
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Marki Microwave New Low-Loss Diplexers Offer Excellent VSWR Four new connectorized diplexers, with crossover frequencies of 4, 5, 8, and 8.5 GHz complement our lineup of low-loss high-rejection diplexers that span DC to 40GHz. The MDPX series are MMIC designs offering the best in repeatable reliable performance. Our diplexers are useful not only in splitting...
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LT-2672-02 Frequency Synthesizer by EM Research The LT-2672-02 from EM Research is a Fixed Frequency Synthesizer that generates an output signal of 2672.5 MHz using an external 100 MHz reference. The signal has an output power of 15 dBm and phase noise of less than -120 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. The synthesizer has spurious levels less...
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Qorvo® Expands BAW Filter Portfolio to Support Global 5G Base Station Deployments GREENSBORO, NC – September 21, 2021 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq:QRVO), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today introduced two bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters to support the ongoing global deployment of 5G base stations. The new QPQ3500 and QPQ3501 filters offer base station OEMs pin-compatible,...
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11 things you probably didn’t know about u-center ''When we first came up with u‑center, our in-house GNSS analysis and evaluation tool, we thought we were only scratching our own itch. Little did we know that u‑center would eventually become the de facto industry standard for GNSS receiver data analysis on Windows operating systems! Today,...
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All About Waveguide Shorts and Shims For many RF test applications in the higher frequencies, such as millimeter-waves, or for high power use cases, rectangular waveguides are the interconnect solution of choice. In a similar wave to short-open-load-through (SOLT) calibration standards used for vector network analyzer (VNA) calibration with coaxial interconnect, VNA using waveguide interconnect...
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BMD-330 RF Module by u-blox AG The BMD-330 from u-blox is a Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy Module with a 200 m range. It is based on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52810 SoC with an integrated ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor and supports a data rate of up to 2 Mbps. The module delivers a Tx power of up to...
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Marki Microwave New Schottky SMT Limiters to 40GHz and 50W We're introducing two surface mount MMIC limiters designed to protect sensitive RF components from high power conditions, while also maintaining high linearity during small-signal operation. HLM-40PSM offers a wide DC to 40GHz bandwidth while maintaining very low 0.7dB loss at 20GHz. Power handling is rated...
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Taoglas’ September 2021 New Product launch Sighunter - ISM / LoRa / SigFox Gooseneck Antenna Introducing the Taoglas TS.89 Sighunter - go global, with LoRa / SigFox designed to operate at either the 868MHz or 915MHz frequency bands. Not only that, but the TS.89 exhibits fantastic efficiencies and high directional gain! It's greater than 80% on...
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