The Source on Design and Technology for the Wireless and RF Engineer
Software Speeds the Design of Wireless, Broadband, and Optical Products
June 28, 2001 8:23 am | Product Releases | CommentsAnsoft announced the release of Ensemble (Version 8.0) with functionality targeting the needs of RFIC, MMIC, PCB, and planar antenna designers. This version expands the speed and accuracy for characterizing all planar structures found in wireless, broadband, and optical components. Ensemble 8....
Simulation Software Provides Insight to Health Safety Issues
June 28, 2001 8:23 am | Product Releases | CommentsWith the proliferation of mobile phone users, health safety issues have been hitting the headlines with increasing regularity. Many designers are turning to cutting edge simulation software such as CST MICROWAVE STUDIO™ to provide better insight into the risks and effects. It is now possible to carry out SAR calculations using CST MICROWAVE STUDIO's time domain solver, having imported SAR standard models (FCC / Cenelec / IEEE) with CS...
New range of GHz Trimmer Capacitors
June 28, 2001 8:08 am | Product Releases | CommentsTemex Components, announces the availability of a new range of GigaHertz trimmer capacitors that are reduced in size, while improving their performances in terms of ESR and self-resonant frequency. This new range incorporates the famous self-locking constant torque drive mechanism, and offer many advantages as for example, small size, light weight, fixed length, high Q, and zero tuning noise....
Digital Downconverter
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsGraychip has announced the availability of its 100 MHz GC4016, an enhanced performance four channel multi-standard digital receiver chip. The GC4016 is an ideal building block for implementing multi-standard wideband software radios for cellular base stations as well as WLL systems. Air interface standards supported include GSM, IS-136, CDMA, EDGE, and 3rd generation UMTS/CDMA2000-3x....
Wireless Broadband Antennas
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsDecibel Products, and Allen Telecom Company, has developed and produced a new family of base station antennas featuring the latest antenna design technology. The 980HF115T2EW and the 980HF65T2EW are horizontally polarized, with azimuth beam widths of 115° and 65° respectively. Both antennas are characterized by Decibel's MaxFill pattern shaping capability with upper side lobe suppression and null fill....
Antennas Designed to Meet Broadband Market Needs
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsDecibel Products' new Datenna family of antennas recently expanded with the release of three new antennas, the DB973HG12ERR, the DB948G85E-DR, and the DB973G90-SR. These new products are designed for broadband wireless data and voice applications and created to address two separate needs within the new frequency bands — uninterrupted transmission and high volume data transmission....
RF SiGe Front End Integrated Circuit
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsAtmel® announced the availability of its well-known highly integrated RF Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) front end IC (including a low-noise amplifier and a power amplifier) for the radio part of long range, 100 meter, Bluetooth™ systems in Flipchip technology. Due to Flipchip technology, the T7024 is much smaller and more cost-effective than conventionally-packaged Gallium-Arsenide (GaAs) solutions....
CDMA RF Synthesizer
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsSilicon Laboratories announced the Si4135 CDMA RF synthesizer, the newest member of the company's Criterium™ RF synthesizer family. The single-chip Si4135 is based on Silicon Labs' CMOS RF architecture and meets the phase noise performance requirements of the IS-95 and Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) cellular standards....
WCDMA Power Amp Supply
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsMaxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX1820, which is the first step-down DC-DC converter designed specifically for the fixed-gain linear power amplifiers (PAs) used in 2.5G and 3G WCDMA cellular phones. The high-speed MAX1820 can vary its output voltage from 0.4 V to 3.4 V in less than 30 μs, adjusting the power applied to the PA so that it tracks the power being transmitted by the PA....
Static Prescaler
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsHittite Microwave introduces a low noise, Divide-by-4 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology that operates to 12 GHz. The HMC362 features a wide operating input window, a selectable output power bias option, and a low additive SSB phase noise of -149 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. This device operates from DC (with a square wave input) to 12....
GaAs HBT MMIC Divide-by-4 Prescaler for DC - 12.5 GHz
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsHittite Microwave introduces a low noise, Divide-by-4 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology in an 8 lead surface mount plastic package. The HMC365S8G features a wide operating input window and low additive SSB phase noise of -151 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. This device operates from DC (with a square wave input) to 12....
Surface Mount GaAs HBT MMIC Divide-by-4 Prescaler
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsHittite Microwave introduces a low noise, Divide-by-4 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology in an 8 lead surface mount plastic package. The HMC362S8G features a wide operating input window and low additive SSB phase noise of -149 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. This device operates from DC (with a square wave input) to 12 GHz input frequency with a single +5....
Divide-by-2 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT Technology
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsHittite Microwave introduces a low noise, Divide-by-2 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology that operates to 13.0 GHz. The HMC364 features a wide operating input window, a selectable output power bias option, and a low additive SSB phase noise of — 145 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. This device operates from DC (with a square wave input) to 13 GHz input frequency and operates from a single +5....
Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology Operates to 13.0 GHz
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsHittite Microwave introduces a low noise, Divide-by-4 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology that operates to 13.0 GHz. The HMC365 features a wide operating input window, a selectable output power bias option, and a low additive SSB phase noise of -151 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. This device operates from DC (with a square wave input) to 13 GHz input frequency and operates from a single 5....
Divide-by-8 Prescaler for DC - 12.0 GHz
June 28, 2001 7:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsHittite Microwave introduces a low noise, Divide-by-8 Static Prescaler with InGaP GaAs HBT technology in an 8 lead surface mount plastic package. The HMC363S8G features a wide operating input window and low additive SSB phase noise of -153 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. This device operates from DC (with a square wave input) to 12 GHz input frequency with a single +5....
