Wide-dynamic range log amplifier enhances RF sensitivity
Aug 25, 2005
A new high-performance log detector from Linear Technology offers high sensitivity, allowing more accurate measurement of lower levels of RF and IF signals. ...
Integrated PLO offers low noise
Aug 18, 2005
Hittite Microwave Corp. has released a fully integrated InGaP HBT phase-locked oscillator surface-mount MMIC for point-to-point/multipoint, test equipment, industrial, and VSAT subscriber applications from 14.7 to 15.4 GHz...
GHz log amp extends RF power detection performance
Aug 18, 2005
The AD8319, the latest addition to Analog Devices' family of power detectors/controllers, accurately measures RF signals over a wide frequency range of 1 MHz to 10 GHz...
E-band diplexer is broadband
Aug 18, 2005
K&L Microwave’s E-band diplexer consists of two waveguide bandpass filters specially designed to pass a relatively wide portion of the spectrum, from 71 to 76 GHz and 81 to 86 GHz...
Modules extend longevity, lower costs of synthetic test systems
Aug 11, 2005
Agilent Technologies Inc.'s family of six new microwave synthetic instruments support the U.S. Department of Defense's NxTest vision of flexible, modular and morphable instrumentation....
Radio receiver offers improvement in range for myriad RF applications
Aug 4, 2005
Micrel Inc.'s MICRF010 IC is aimed at a wide variety of applications in the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. The MICRF010 offers sensitivity typically 6 dB higher than earlier 8-pin QwikRadio receiver ICs in the company’s RF product family....
PLL-based clock generation chip achieves high jitter performance
Aug 4, 2005
ON Semiconductor has released a fully integrated phase-lock loop (PLL) IC, the NB4N507A, that is designed to replace expensive crystal oscillators for clock generation in a wide variety of consumer and networking applications...
Supplier expands coaxial relay portfolio
Aug 4, 2005
The RF Relay Store, operated by RelComm Technologies in Salisbury, Maryland, has recently expanded the product offering to more than 35 line items of standard building block RF coaxial relays...
New chip inductors come in 0201 case size
Aug 4, 2005
Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.), Inc. has released two new achievements in its expanding series of high-frequency multilayer chip inductors providing high-inductance (HK series) and high-Q factor (HKQ series) performance characteristics...
ZigBee-ready stand-alone radios simplify integration
Jul 28, 2005
Adding more flexibility to the line of products supporting the ZigBee and 802.15.4 standards, MaxStream has released stand-alone XBee-PRO radios that allow for quick connections to both RS-232 and USB-enabled devices....
Real-time clock module is ultra-small
Jul 28, 2005
An "all-in-one-package" real-time clock module from the Micro Crystal division of the Swatch Group is ultra-small...
Integrated amplifier distributes digital/analog signals
Jul 21, 2005
To address the need for interfacing multisignal references to multiple instruments, Spectrum Instruments has readied an intelligent reference TM-4D, an integrated digital/analog distribution amplifier...
High-linearity multiGHz switch is RoHS-compliant
Jul 21, 2005
M/A-COM has announced a new low-cost, RoHS-compliant SPDT switch for applications that require high linearity, low insertion loss and high isolation with reduced size...
SMT medium power amplifier is tailored for microwave radio
Jul 21, 2005
Hittite Microwave Corp. has announced the release of an RoHS-compliant, SMT-packaged medium-power amplifier for microwave radio, test and sensor applications from 12 to 30 GHz...
Integrated receiver, transmitter set lowers chip count in wireless communications
Jul 21, 2005
Mimix Broadband, Inc. has released gallium arsenide, monolithic microwave integrated circuit sub-harmonically pumped receiver and transmitter devices, which integrate an image reject sub-harmonic anti-parallel diode mixer, an LO buffer amplifier and a low noise amplifier for the receiver, and an output amplifier for the transmitter...
Compact, rugged antenna offers extreme wideband performance
Jul 14, 2005
The new UAB 226G bicone antenna from Fractal Antenna Systems provides extreme wideband and omni-directional performance for signal gathering and high-power transmission ...
Broadband coaxial adapters are rugged
Jul 14, 2005
Vista RF, Inc., a supplier of high-performance RF components for the telecommunication markets, has released its new line of rugged, broadband RF adapters...
