In this article we discuss amplifier figures of merit, and along the way you will hopefully develop an intuition for how to select an amplifier for your application based on a datasheet.
Marki Microwave supports multiple form factors including die, surface mount, and connectorized solutions for the entire RF block diagram from DC to sub-THz frequencies.
Explore the latest advancements in IQ mixer calibration with our comprehensive application note.
Marki Microwave is proud to publicly offer our non-linear simulation design kits for both Cadence® AWR® Microwave Office® (MWO) and Keysight’s PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS).
The goal of this application note is to introduce IQ, single sideband (SSB), and image reject (IR) mixers in both theory and practice.
In case you missed IMS in San Diego last week, we showed off a mmWave up- and down-conversion chain using a fully coaxial connectorized lineup operating at 81GHz.
I use an IQ-0307LXP mixer to create up-converted microwave pulses with sing.
With the release of our small form factor 1:1 and 1:2 baluns, MBAL(H)-0R106/0R520CSP2, we thought it’s time to touch base on our balun types and the information we present in our datasheets.
Quadrature mixers (IQ, Image Reject, and Single Sideband) are offer powerful capabilities and are critical to modern communication and electronic warfare systems.
What is the difference between the image rejection mixer IRW-0618 and the s.
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Marki Microwave supports multiple form factors including die, surface mount, and connectorized solutions for the entire RF block diagram from DC to sub-THz frequencies.
An online application for calculating the intermodulation distortion products (IMD3) arising from third order nonlinearities (third-order intercept point, IP3) in RF receivers under two-tone input.
An online tool for calculating oscillator phase noise under vibrations.
An online calculator for converting phase noise to jitter.
Mixer linearity is continuously and permanently a critical problem faced in RF system design.
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Power dividers and directional couplers are straightforward passive components.
An online tool for LC filter synthesis.
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Filters are ubiquitous throughout RF systems, yet they have not seen the same degree of advancements that have been made to the rest of the RF signal chain.
Calculate spurs through the following applications: spur calculator and spectrum analyzer.
The outstanding fabrication tolerances and scalability of IC processes have made MMICs the technology of choice for nearly all planar microwave components, including amplifiers, mixers, switches, oscillators—even fully integrated transceivers.
Microwave mixers translate the frequency of electromagnetic signals.
Phase noise is critical to systems, like Electronic Warfare and 5G Communications, requiring precise frequency stability.
An online calculator for converting between VSWR and Return Loss, Reflection Coefficient, Mismatch Loss, and Reflected Power.
The Legacy Footprint Outlines are provided below for your reference.
MMIC Filter Advancements Drive New Tools.
This question comes up frequently enough that I thought I’d write a short article on it.
We recently got ahold of several new waveguide products, and tested several waveguide straights, bends, and twists to generate s-parameter files you can download on our product pages.
“I want to split a signal non equally.
A common issue in microwave and RF systems is creating a power splitting network.
RF power splitters play a crucial role in distributing RF signals efficiently and accurately across various electronic systems.
An online tool for microstrip filter synthesis.
What connectors come with your connectorized packages?.
Mechanically steered antennas have given way to phased array architectures in many applications in the last fifty years.
What does 'I port configuration' mean? Can I find that information in the d.
Marki Microwave offers a wide variety of broadband driver, low noise, and low phase noise amplifiers and broadband RF bias tees.
Does Marki Microwave offer space qualified/grade products?.
We are going to wire the pads on the top of the mixer over to another board.
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What is the practical difference between a double balanced mixer and a trip.
One of the challenges of microwave and RF engineering is a lack of intuition.
During the World Cup, I wrote a blog entryabout technology in football (i.
In my previous tech note exploring TDR as a method for optimizing surface mount footprints, we determined the root cause of the evaluation circuit’s performance degradation and added an inductive taper to the launch to improve impedance matching.
Marki Microwave offers an extensive library of 2D and 3D outline drawings to accompany our product catalog.
The key to all of these circuits is the quadrature phase shift, both at the LO side for an IQ mixer, and at the LO and IF side for an image reject or single sideband mixer.
Since we released our BAL-0006SMG (and now BALH-0006SMG) broadband surface mount baluns, we have received a lot of interest in them from people using high speed analog to digital converters, and have wondered why they were so driven to find the best balun/transformer available.
Marki Microwave offers a variety of MMIC amplifiers for use in all areas of RF and microwave systems.
I’ve posted about this before, but there is a persistent myth in the industry that conversion loss ripple comes from bad mixer VSWR.
As detailed in our Mixer Basics Primer, the isolations of a mixer refer to how well a balanced mixer cancels out each of the arms inputs from the outputs of the other arms.
Ideal tunable bandpass filters have the potential to significantly reduce the complexity and size of RF systems, but practical designs have historically faced challenges that limit their effectiveness.
Limiters are critical components in the front end of nearly every modern RF receiver.
In a typical receiver application, a frequency conversion is performed after filtering and low noise amplification.
Answers to frequently asked technical questions about Marki Microwave products and capabilities.
The MMIC platform stands as a cornerstone in modern microwave design, offering a versatile foundation for the development of high-performance RF components, as well as high-fidelity models.
MMIC Filters: Revolutionizing RF Systems with Compact Design and High Performance.
If you attended IMS this year you saw an important product announcement, in a completely new category, from Marki: a switch.
Sometimes you need a mixer; sometimes you need an IQ mixer.
Spurious products can quickly overcrowd your output spectrum and destroy the dynamic range of your system if you aren’t careful.
In this post we will go into much further depth about the physical mechanisms by which mixers act as phase detectors, and what is important for engineers trying to accomplish this in the lab.