COMPONENTS

Bandpass Filter Bank

AM3152 is a miniature digitally tunable bandpass filter bank covering the 0.4 to 8 GHz frequency range in a 6 mm QFN package. The device contains three tunable filter bands each with 256 discrete cutoff states and a low-loss filter bypass path. AM3152 is an excellent front-end for a receiver providing both low insertion loss and valuable flexibility for tuning center frequency and bandwidth. Its small size, weight and power consumption make it an attractive choice for demanding applications requiring low SWaP components.

Atlanta Micro Inc.
www.atlantamicro.com

Mini Air Core Inductors

Coilcraft has released their latest mini air core inductors, the 1512SP/2712SP Series. Specs for the series include inductance values from 2.5 to 150 nH (tolerances as low as 2 percent), tight tolerance can eliminate circuit tuning, acrylic jacket provides a flat top for pick and place, exceptionally high Q over a wide frequency range, solder coated leads ensure reliable soldering, wide range of standard EIA inductance values, available in two sizes.

Coilcraft
www.coilcraft.com

Three-Way Power Divider/Combiner

Model P03N003180 is a three-way 0.3 to 18 GHz DC pass through power divider/combiner, it has 2.7 dB maximum insertion loss, 16 dB minimum isolation, 1.5: 1 maximum VSWR, ±0.6 dB amplitude balance and ±5 phase balance. The input power as the power divider is 20 W average. As combiner, it can stand for 5 W average input power. The size is 279.4 x 40.6 x 12.7 mm, the operating temperature is -54° to +85°C.

Fuzhou MIcable Electronic Technology Co. Ltd.
www.micable.cn

mmWave Controlled Components

General Microwave Corp. is a key partner with major OEM’s and primes, having been chosen for their broad and comprehensive understanding of mmWave controlled components. General Microwave offers a wide range of mmWave products operating in the 18 to 40 GHz frequency range including catalog attenuators, switches and phase shifters as well as integrated microwave assemblies. If it is a standard catalog unit or a highly customized mmWave product designed specifically for high performance, General Microwave can provide products to support your requirements.

Kratos General Microwave Corp.
www.kratosmed.com

26 to 34 GHz, 20 dB Directional Couplers

MECA expanded its offering of 5G mmWave products. Featuring 10 dB couplers covering 26 to 34 GHz with 2.92 mm interfaces. Typical specifications of 1.5:1 VSWR, 15 dB directivity, 1 dB insertion loss and 0.4 dB frequency sensitivity. Also available are attenuators, terminations, bias tee’s, DC blocks and adapters. Additionally octave and multi-octave models covering up to 50 GHz built by J-Standard certified assemblers and technicians. Made in U.S. and 36-month warranty.

MECA Electronics Inc.
www.e-meca.com/mmwave-products/couplers

MLBF-Filter Test Box

500 MHz to 50 GHz standard models utilize any bandpass or band reject filter manufactured by Micro Lambda are available today. Bandpass filter models cover 500 MHz to 50 GHz and are available in four, six and seven stage configurations. Band reject (notch) filter models cover 500 MHz to 20 GHz and are available in 10, 12, 14 and 16 stage configurations. Units are specified to operate over the lab environment of +15°C to +55°C, are CE certified and LabVIEW compatible.

Micro Lambda Wireless
www.microlambdaWireless.com

Switch Matrix Controls

Mini-Circuits’ model RC-2SPDT-A26 is a broadband single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch matrix well suited for systems and test applications from DC to 26.5 GHz. It consists of a pair of independent absorptive SPDT electromechanical switches with Ethernet and USB connectivity that can be controlled directly from a personal computer or over a network with user-friendly software for Windows operating systems. The 50 Ω switches operate with 25 ms typical switching speed in failsafe, make-before-break configurations on a +26 V DC supply at operating temperatures from 0 to +40°C.

Mini-Circuits
www.minicircuits.com

High Power Capacitors

Passive Plus, Inc. (PPI) is known for their outstanding customer service, high-quality product line, competitive pricing and quick delivery times. While other companies are pushing out their lead-times for product delivery, PPI is committed to being able to deliver your needs as quickly as possible. As PPI tries to keep a full inventory in stock, depending on the capacitor and quantities needed, delivery times can be stock to eight weeks.

Passive Plus Inc.
www.passiveplus.com

Phase Modulators

Pasternack has just launched a new line of bi-phase modulators that includes a comprehensive selection of nine different models covering broad octave frequency bands ranging from 0.5 to 40 GHz. Bi-phase modulators take a TTL level digital bits stream that is encoded onto the RF carrier using 2 Phase Shift Keying (2PSK) modulation, where the two phases are separated by 180 degrees. This performance is desirable in communications systems, microwave radio, radar, high-data-rate test and measurement, serial data transmission, base station infrastructure and other industrial and military applications.

Pasternack
www.pasternack.com

RF Limiter

PMI model no. LM-20M18G-100 W-15 DBM is an RF limiter that operates in the frequency range of 20 MHz to 18 GHz. This limiter can handle up to 100 W CW more than 20 MHz to 18 GHz, for all temperatures (-55°C to +85°C). The energy input provides leaks of +15 dBm maximum. This model has a low insertion loss of 2.60 dB and a maximum recovery time of 100 ns, limiting threshold (P1dB) +5 dBm minimum and VSWR of 2.0:1 maximum at -10 dBm input power.

Planar Monolithics Industries Inc.
www.pmi-rf.com