Aeroflex announces design enhancements to its line of fast switching frequency synthesizers and also announces its 2200 series, improving continuous operation from 4,000 hours MTBF to 12,000 hours MTBF. The 2200 family is built on a versatile modular platform and offers one microsecond switching speed and sub-microsecond level correction, coupled with good spectral purity. This family is used for airborne, shipborne, electronic warfare simulation, and radar upgrades. The frequency synthesizers are broadband sources, operating over the range of 10 MHz to 18.4 GHz with a standard resolution of 1.0 Hz. The family can step from any frequency (F1), to any other frequency (F2), up or down, in 1 uSec. Output amplitude is +10 dBm +2 dB into an impedance of 50Ω. The family includes over 30 models and is housed in a full 3U rack chassis with front panel keyboard for manual control, GPIB, and parallel binary coded decimal (BCD) interface for remote programming.

Aeroflex Incorporated