Mimix Broadband has released its surface mount technology (SMT) packaged, gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) receiver and transmitter devices that cover the 35 to 45 GHz and 36 to 42 GHz frequency bands. The image-reject receiver has a noise figure of 3.5 dB and 10 dB conversion gain with +5 dBm IIP3. The transmitter has a +17 dBm output OIP3 and 5 dB conversion gain across the band.
The receiver integrates an image reject mixer, an LO doubler/buffer amplifier, and a low noise amplifier and is offered in a 7x7mm SMT high performance package. The transmitter integrates a balanced, image-reject mixer, an LO doubler/buffer amplifier, and an output RF amplifier. The RF amplifier is comprised of a series of gain and attenuation stages to achieve linear gain control with a fixed IF input level.
The receiver and transmitter pair is suited for wireless communications applications such as millimetre-wave point-to-point radio, local multipoint distribution services (LMDS), SATCOM and VSAT applications.
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