Current market demands in wireless communications require that equipment suppliers lower costs and increase performance. As Mimix Broadband sees it, this trend forces design engineers to develop higher levels of product integration to meet these requirements.

The key to this technology is the integration of up to four functions or more into a single MMIC. Integration offers a number of benefits for millimetre-wave components, including lower costs and variability of transceivers from using fewer parts, a smaller footprint area and a simpler design. It also reduces the need for off-chip interstage matching between RF components.

In addition to the development of highly integrated devices, more microwave and millimetre-wave devices are being housed in standard QFN surface-mount packages. The continued growth in wireless communications has placed tremendous pressure on component manufacturers to provide standard QFN surface-mount packaged products for large scale PCB assembly flow, in order to lower costs and ease handling and assembly for mass production.

European Microwave Week is a perfect forum for focussing on trends like product integration, bringing together premier equipment suppliers and advanced design engineers to meet industry requirements. The event, with its high-level technical paper presentations and well attended exhibition, is a unique opportunity for both sides of the industry to share ideas and solutions, research and development.

Mimix Broadband’s links with Europe are well established. Specifically, the company develops microwave and millimetre-wave products in close partnership with major European telecom OEMs, in particular for the PTP radio and wireless infrastructure markets. In addition to catalogue products, the company provides custom designs to meet customers’ specifications. Using a two-pronged strategy for new product development means that it provides innovative technology that solves customers’ technical challenges and keeps pace with the markets’ requirements.

Mimix is proud to support EuMW 2007 as a Silver Sponsor, as we have done for the last several years. As one of the industry’s premier events, we have regularly introduced new products and services and this year is no exception. In particular, to find out more about Mimix Buffer Amplifiers… The Perfect Fit! visit Stand 1004.