New Product Guide
Mini-Circuits released over 400 models in 2018, and the company continues to develop new products at a rapid clip. Their Q1 2019 product guide highlights some of the latest additions to their portfolio to keep you informed. Highlights include new hi-rel ceramic MMIC amplifiers, wideband MMIC gain slope equalizers, LTCC filters with rejection up to 45 dB, ultra-wideband coaxial couplers and splitters up to 40 and 50 GHz and more.
Mini-Circuits
www.minicircuits.com
Filters, Multiplexers & Multifunction Assemblies
Reactel manufactures a full line of RF/microwave filters, multiplexers and multifunction assemblies covering up to 50 GHz. Supporting aerospace, military, commercial, industrial, medical and research needs, the company has been supplying units that meet the most stringent requirements for the past 40 years. From small, lightweight units suitable for flight or portable systems, to high-power units capable of handling up to 25 kW, connectorized or surface mount, large or small quantities - their talented engineers can design a unit specifically for your application and deliver quickly.
Reactel Inc.
www.reactel.com
Beam Forming System production line
In recent years RF-Lambda has developed a new Beam Forming System production line. These systems cover a range of frequencies, from sub-GHz to 18 GHz, with a number of elements ranging from 16 to 64 to meet a variety of beam width requirements. All antenna systems have a built in T/R Module - with PAs, LNAs and phase shifters. RF-Lambda combined its state-of-the-art design capability for both power amplifiers and transceivers into these phased array systems, creating devices that are higher power and higher sensitivity than market competition.
RF-Lambda
www.rflambda.com
Aerospace & Defense Selector Guide
Richardson RFPD is an AS9120-certified, global component distributor specializing in advanced connectivity solutions. With A&D as its largest market, the company’s GaN technology portfolio and wide range of MMICs, RF transistors, PAs and diodes include leading brands Analog Devices, ATC, Anaren, MACOM, Microchip, Microsemi, NXP, pSemi, Skyworks, UMS, WanTcom and Wolfspeed. Among the latest additions to Richardson
RFPD’s A&D line are Guerrilla RF, NewEdge Signal Solutions and Tagore Technology products and the Metelics diodes now offered by MACOM.
Richardson RFPD
www.richardsonrfpd.com
Excellence in aerospace and defense test
In the aerospace and defense industry, innovation and disruptive technologies are a key element of success. Highest requirements need to be met for design, verification and test of electronic systems. As a recognized industry partner, Rohde & Schwarz provides market leading test & measurement solutions for radar, EW, satellite, navigation, guidance, communications and radio monitoring systems. With decades of industry experience, Rohde & Schwarz provides its customers with the means for technological progress in aerospace, defense and space.
Rohde & Schwarz
www.rohde-schwarz.com
Series RPC-1.35 Connectors
Rosenberger introduces a new precision connector series to meet the increasing demand for proper RF connections up to 90 GHz. The newly developed RPC-1.35 connector series - the “E connector” - is characterized by a highly robust mechanical design, minimum 3000 mating cycles, high connector repeatability, maximum return loss values. The product range covers semi-rigid and flexible cable assemblies, PCB connectors, test PCBs, cable connectors, in-series and inter-series adaptors, test port, floating and waveguide-to-coaxial adaptors as well as gauge and calibration kits. The interface standardization is in progress.
Rosenberger
www.rosenberger.com
New Wideband Surface Mount Fixed Attenuators
Utilizing more than 40 years of experience in refining attenuation solutions for the defense, the TT9 offers a power handling capability of 500 mW while maintaining excellent impedance matching in an SMT package and outstanding performance for high frequency applications, both fixed and temperature variable designs in the same footprint and is ideal for the exacting needs of the defense market. This series has undergone significant qualification testing with proven results of robust performance in extended durations and extreme environments.
Smiths Interconnect
www.smithsinterconnect.com
PCIe Arbitrary Waveform Generators
Spectrum Instrumentation introduced eight new PCIe Arbitrary Waveform Generators with up to eight simultaneous channels. These new “65” series AWGs are optimized for signal quality, size and cost. With a card length of only 168 mm they fit into nearly every PC, turning it into a highly flexible signal source with 40, 80 or 125 MS/s. They offer a fast FIFO mode (unique for AWGs) with 700 MByte/s or 8 × 40 MS/s continuous data streaming.
Spectrum Instrumentation
https://spectrum-instrumentation.com/en/
Superior Rotary Joints for Space Applications
Rotary joints made by SPINNER for use in space make a decisive contribution to technological progress and precise communication because satellites in outer space would be almost worthless if communication links with ground stations were not permanently maintained. The antennas of satellites have to be permanently targeted at their ground stations, a task for which rotary joints are indispensable.
SPINNER GmbH
www.spinner-group.com/space
NEW CLARITY SERIES
Times Microwave introduces its new Clarity Series of 18, 26.5 and 40 GHz coax test cables. Clarity boasts steel torque, crush and overbend protection with abrasion resistance yet does not compromise flexibility. The cable is ultra stable through 40 GHz with exceptionally low attenuation. An industry first includes an ergonomically designed, injection molded strain relief and Times’ new, SureGrip™ coupling nut to significantly improve the user’s everyday experience.
Times Microwave Systems
www.timesmicrowave.com