Find it Fast Guides
AR’s Find It Fast guides allow users to quickly find the appropriate RF or microwave power amplifier, TWTA, hybrid power module or antenna to meet your most demanding applications. Their website features a wide range of both solid-state and TWTA wideband amplifier designs to satisfy EMC and various other markets. The menu system is easy to read and the sites are search engine friendly. Visit www.arworld.us or www.arww-rfmicro.com.
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation
www.arworld.us
Website Redesign
Crane’s Microwave Components & Integrated Assemblies has redesigned its website. No more searching, searching and searching — the redesign helps you find the datasheet you need quicker than ever before! Product lines, product specifications and datasheets are all right at your fingertips. Looking for integrated assemblies, component and single function devices or space qualified passive products? Visit www.craneae.com/mw for more information.
Crane Aerospace & Electronics
www.craneae.com/mw
Advanced GaN and GaAs MMICs
Custom MMIC has added several new MMIC solutions to their rapidly growing product library on their website. New, balanced, low noise amplifiers (LNA) operate from 9 to 18 GHz. A new GaN LNA operates from 4 to 8 GHz with a gain of 22.5 dB, and can withstand RF input power levels of up to
5 W. A 15 to 30 GHz frequency doubler is “active,” so there’s no loss. Many more new MMIC releases can be found online.
Custom MMIC
www.custommmic.com
21st Century Functionality
Flann Microwave Ltd., a leading manufacturer of passive waveguide components up to 500 GHz, announced the launch of its new website. Delivering 21st century functionality and easy access to product, market and services information, the new website represents the next step in Flann’s plans to modernize its online and social media presence. Significant improvements have been made to ease access to product data as well as contact and representative information. The site also features an enhanced news portal.
Flann Microwave Ltd.
www.flann.com
Demonstration Videos
High Speed Interconnects (HSI) is custom extruding phase stable, low loss, micro-coaxial and coaxial cable assemblies to order. These ultra-flexible cable assemblies are designed to withstand less than 0.25" bend radiuses and exceed 90 percent velocity of propagation while delivering phase stability of < 1.5° and insertion loss of < 0.9 dB per foot @ 40 GHz. HSI is encouraging non-believers to request a live demonstration to see the phase stability, loss and capacitance of these assemblies in real-time. Watch the recorded videos on their website at www.highspeedint.com/videos.
High Speed Interconnects
www.highspeedint.com/videos
Small Cells/IBC/DAS Solutions
Due to the fast growing need for broadband networks everywhere in the world, the build-up of indoor and outdoor small cell networks is in progress right now and for the next few years. HUBER+SUHNER supports these initiatives with dedicated solutions based on fiber optic technology as well as on radio frequency technology. Find IBC/DAS and small cell solutions on the company’s wireless infrastructure microsite at http://wirelessinfrastructure.hubersuhner.comhttp://wirelessinfrastructure.hubersuhner.com.
HUBER+SUHNER
http://wirelessinfrastructure.hubersuhner.com
Download Your Next Insight
From first simulation through first customer shipment, design & test software from Keysight delivers the tools needed to quickly move from data to information to actionable insight. You can try out a software package for free for 30 days, just by downloading a free trial from Keysight’s newly updated software website. Trial software is available in the following application areas: cellular & wireless connectivity applications and technology; digital design & interconnect standards; aerospace & defense applications; and digital video technology and applications.
Keysight Technologies Inc.
www.keysight.com/find/free_trials
Micro-flex and Thin-film Circuits
Today’s antennas are getting smaller and more flexible, circuits are fitting into tighter and weird spaces, and signal integrity still is job one. Metrigraphics is addressing this market requirement with micron-scale flexible circuits that are flexible enough to wrap around objects with diameters as small as a pencil. To manufacture flexible circuits with high-resolution, Metrigraphics employs a mix of proprietary and industry-standard processes. These include high-resolution photolithography as well as sputtered thin-film and plated metal deposition. Visit their website for more information.
Metrigraphics LLC
www.metrigraphicsllc.com
Custom VCO Spec Checklist
Need a VCO custom designed for your project? Visit minicircuits.com and try their online custom VCO spec checklist. Simply enter your requirements and a little information about your project, then click submit for a fast response. Mini-Circuits’ engineers will review your application, determine feasibility and provide a proposal. They can optimize models for wideband, linear tuning, dual output, low phase noise and more for low cost and with fast turnaround.
Mini-Circuits
www.minicircuits.com
Website Launch
P1dB’s website has been designed to meet customer demand for an easy product search, consumer level e-commerce check-out and 24/7 availability. P1dB will continue to increase and develop its product line based on market feedback in order to become the leading RF and microwave component supplier supporting customers’ immediate requirements. Back-end support has also been installed to permit easy interfacing with P1dB’s franchised distributor, RFMW Ltd., which will improve customer experience and support.
P1dB Inc.
www.p1dB.com
S-parameter Data
Passive Plus Inc. (PPI), is a manufacturer of high-performance RF/microwave passive components, and serves the medical, semiconductor, military, broadcast and telecommunications industries. PPI has partnered with Modelithics to provide S-parameter data that is currently downloadable free on PPI’s website for the following: 0505C/P and 1111C/P series of Hi-Q (>10,000)/low ESR capacitors; 0201N, 0402N, 0603N, 0805N and the 1111N series of EIA Hi-Q/low ESR capacitors; and 1005BB, 0201BB and 0402BB series of broadband capacitors.
Passive Plus Inc.
www.passiveplus.com
Scope of the Art
Discover the continuously expanding Rohde & Schwarz oscilloscope portfolio on their re-launched “Scope of the Art” website. Find the perfect oscilloscope, applications and accessories to meet your requirements. The website features all the information you need about the extensive portfolio of oscilloscopes with bandwidths from 50 MHz to 4 GHz, as well as high-quality active and passive probes and other accessories. Plus, it keeps you informed about current promotions that save you money.
Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
www.scope-of-the-art.com/en/
Connectors and Assemblies
San-tron has several innovative connectors and assemblies available on their website. These include the SRX family of low-PIM adapters, connectors (including new 4.1/9.5 mini-DINs) and cable assemblies. Assemblies feature intermodulation performance as low as -168 dBc. San-tron’s pSeries™ pressurized connectors provide low-loss, high-stability performance through 30 GHz at ±65 psi. These pressurized connectors meet the IP68 standard. High performance custom cable assemblies for communications and microwave test stands are also available. Visit www.santron.com for more information.
San-tron Inc.
www.santron.com
Connector Support
Signal Microwave has a new website, www.signalmicrowave.com, with resources for 2.92 mm (40 GHz) and 1.85 mm (70 GHz) connectors and test boards. The website provides technical data for these recently released edge launch and vertical launch connectors. These connectors are solderless board mounted connectors intended for test and measurement applications. Outline drawings, test data and test board resources, and other design resources to support the connectors are all available on the new site.
Signal Microwave
www.signalmicrowave.com
New Corporate Website
Southwest Antennas announced the launch of their new corporate website. Designed from the ground-up, the site delivers technical information about SWA’s full line of rugged antennas and accessories to engineers, buyers, or anyone who needs robust antenna solutions for their RF or microwave communication systems. Full product specifications, technical datasheets and STEP files are available for over 500 products, and a full e-commerce system allows for easy quotes and purchases online, at any time. Visit www.southwestantennas.com.
Southwest Antennas
www.southwestantennas.com
Spotlight Going Digital
SPINNER’s Spotlight newsletter is going digital. Experience a unique variety of topics in the world of RF technology. Stay informed about new SPINNER products and its wide range of applications in the fields of communication, rotating solutions and test & measurement. The Spotlight newsletter will be sent by email once every six to eight weeks. Register now and stay tuned at spinner-group.com/newsletter.
SPINNER GmbH
spinner-group.com/newsletter
Subassemblies and Timing Modules
TRAK Microwave’s newly released microwave, aerospace and SATCOM communication system subassemblies and precision network timing products are available on their website. These new products demonstrate the latest size, weight and performance (SWaP) requirements for integrated microwave assemblies, and synchronization in both civilian and military communications. These new products include a Ku-Band block up-converter and down-converter, a Stratum 1 network time server, a Ka-Band latching circulator-isolator and a compact time and frequency reference module.
TrakMicrowave Corp.
www.trak.com
E-commerce Purchasing
Vaunix provides e-commerce purchasing of their entire catalog of programmable and portable ATE “LabBricks” on their website. Their latest designs include attenuators with 120 dB of programmable attenuation through 6,000 MHz; -50 and -75 ohm single pole, double throw and single pole, four throw switches; 2 to 4 and 4 to 8 GHz phase shifters, and a 0.5 to 270 MHz signal generator with a 100-microsecond switching time and 100 Hz frequency resolution. These products are powered by USB and controlled by easy-to-use, graphical-user-interface (GUI) software.
Vaunix Technology Corp.
www.vaunix.com