Tag Archives: GHz

Samtec has created a line of RF connectors that mount to the edge of PCB by bolting rather than soldering. They measure only 9.5mm from side-to-side where they sit on the PCB and are under 8mm from top to bottom (see photo) “These connectors are commonly used in a lab setting for high-frequency test and measurement and evaluation boards,” according ...

Harwin has launched a range of multi-GHz multi-pin board-to-board connectors that tolerate slight misalignment, shock and vibration. Branded Flecto, they are double-row, with up to 160 contacts, and come in three pitches: 0.5, 0.635 (.025in) or 0.8mm, for mated board-to-board spacings between 7.2mm and 29.9mm. The connectors are two-part – one for each board. Controlled flexibility comes from making one ...

Pico Technology has introduced a 3GHz bandwidth display-less oscilloscope with 10Gsample/s maximum performance. Called PicoScope 6428E-D, it has four 50Ω input channels and four input ranges per channel (±50, ±100, ±200 and ±500mV). Maximum vertical resolution is 12bits. “The new oscilloscope extends the capabilities of the existing PicoScope 6000E Series, making it an ideal tool for scientists and researchers working ...

United Monolithic Semiconductors has introduced a 24.25 – 30.5GHz combined output power amplifier, input low-noise amplifier and transit-receive switch. Called CHC6054-QQA, it is manufactured from AlGaN/GaN-on-SiC (gallium nitride on silicon carbide) and gallium arsenide die, both from 150mm wafers. Packaging is 4 x 5mm QFN. It “typically exhibits an Rx gain of 18dB with a noise figure of 3.2dB, and ...

Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced a way to parallel its 12bit 10Gsample/s data acquisition cards up to eight channels, that can also produce 16 12bit channels at 5Gsample/s. Called Star-Hub, it works with the company’s recently introduced M5i.33xx series of PCIe digitisers. “The Star-Hub option is installed by mounting a single piggyback module onto any of the M5i series cards in ...

Teledyne LeCroy has announced a 65GHz 12bit oscilloscope. Called 8650HD, two 65GHz channels can be operated though 1.85mm 50Ω connectors, or it can be switched to four 33GHz channels. It is part of the 8000HD family of scopes, with six models from 20 to 65GHz, up to 320Gsample/s (two channels) and up to 8Gpoint of acquisition memory (200Mpint/s/ch is standard) ...

Diodes has created a high-speed double-pole double-throw analogue switch that can be used as a multiplexer or de-multiplexer at over 5GHz. To be known as PSMUX136, it supports a supply of 1.8 to 5.5V, and from 0 to 3.6V on the analogue ports. Control pins are compatible with 1.8V logic. The device has two single-pole double throw switches, A and ...

Analog Devices has released some details of a 10GHz bandwidth analogue front-end, possibly to be revealed in full at IMS in San Diego this week. The 16nm CMOS device is said to have four 12bit 20Gsample/s ADCs and four 16bit 28Gsample/s DACs – and seems like a faster cousin of the 28nm AD9081 released a few years ago – if ...

Tokyo Institute of Technology has created a Sub-THz 6G transceiver, which will be revealed next week at the VLSI Symposium. Capable of transmission and reception at over 100GHz, and at 112Gbit/s, “by effectively suppressing the self-interference caused by the transmission signal leaking into the receiver, the proposed architecture reaches unprecedented data rates while maintaining a surprisingly compact size”, according to ...

Pico Technology has introduced a display-less 30GHz sampling oscilloscope for use with a PC. Sampling oscilloscopes do not capture a whole waveform in one shot. Instead they are simpler, and work with repetitive waveforms only, using a fast sampling gate at a relatively slow sampling rate to build up a waveform one sample at a time. As such, they are ...