Founded in 1968 by Harvey Kaylie, Mini-Circuits is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of RF and microwave components and integrated assemblies. With design, manufacturing and sales locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits offers 27 product lines comprising over 10,000 active models. Mini-Circuits products are used widely in commercial, industrial, and military applications including: cellular wireless, aerospace, satellite, Mil-Spec, CATV/Broadband, RFID, test instrumentation, diagnostic imaging and many more. Over the last 50 years, demanding quality standards, innovative design capabilities, world-class customer service and long-term stability have made Mini-Circuits the preferred supplier to over 20,000 customers worldwide.
In a visit to Mini-Circuits’ IMS booth in Atlanta, Technical Marketing Manager Steve Scheinkopf gives a tour to Microwaves & RF’s editor, David Maliniak.
Mini-Circuits' MTX2-183+ wideband MMIC balun transformer has an impedance ratio of 1:2, applicable for applications from 5G MIMO to EW systems ranging up to 18 GHz.
There’s no underestimating the importance of filtering in RF system design. This report contains the latest innovations in the art of RF filtering and spectrum management.
The wideband DSA is immune to latchup, offers low insertion loss, and is broadly applicable in test applications for 5G, satcom, and electronic-warfare test sets.
By building key components into design kits and application platforms, suppliers give circuit and system designers head starts in getting the most value and performance for their...
By pushing complex data processing and calculation into software, Mini-Circuits' eVNA-63+ delivers an affordable and powerful vector-network measurement package to RF engineers...
Designers of aerospace and defense electronic systems look to more efficient RFICs and MMICs with increased functionality to achieve solutions with ever-smaller SWaP.
Interest in components, circuit materials, and test solutions for millimeter-wave frequencies looms large as the RF/microwave industry readies for two versions of the annual IEEE...
When it’s time to railroad, you lay rail, and so the industry must adapt. That’s why the International Microwave Symposium, the largest gathering of RF and microwave professionals...
It's the third day of the IMS live event in Atlanta. Come along as we continue our coverage of exciting new products debuting on the exhibition's bustling show floor.
IMS2020 and Microwave Week are nearly upon us, albeit in virtual form due to the public-health crisis imposed by the pandemic. Anxiously awaited each year, IMS is the premier ...
Modelithics now offers over 68 models, representing over 130 individual Mini-Circuits components, that include amplifiers, filters and splitters, among others.
A GaAs MMIC power splitter/combiner...a dc-to-40-GHz SP6T switch matrix...a 3,300-to-3,600-MHz high-efficiency PA—these are some of the latest products making news in the industry...
An expanded offering of Mini-Circuits products on X-Microwave’s modular drop-in format gives designers even more options to accelerate design cycles with the X-MWsystem.
The focus in this article is on the key parts needed for ultra-low-noise synthesizer design like crystal references, power supplies, and low-noise op amps.
Trends in smaller and lighter frequency synthesizers for defense and aerospace applications translate to fitting more performance at higher frequencies into modular formats.
With a focus on RF education, Queensborough Community College gives students a hands-on experience thanks to its array of industry-standard test equipment and more.
During a time when defense electronics technology is strong, the industry readies itself for the global adoption of 5G and electronically steered vehicles.
What are the key ingredients for developing customized surface-mount packages that will ultimately achieve good electrical performance from dc to 50 GHz?
Cables and connectors are vital to military electronics systems, where real-time performance takes on greater meaning, and recent advances are now taking them to higher frequencies...
The RF/microwave industry was generally optimistic at the exhibition in anticipation of real opportunities for mmWave products in automotive and 5G markets.
The trend throughout the high-frequency industry is to design passive components that can handle higher power levels with effective thermal management in tighter spaces
As the applications extrapolate for wireless devices and interest grows in millimeter-wave frequencies, the RF/microwave industry gathers together with great optimism for the ...
We explain how the process of architecting and building RF systems for 5G and IoT applications can be performed efficiently through accurate RF system simulation with real off...
While they can’t match the low loss and power handling of waveguide, coaxial cables and connectors are climbing the frequency ladder to cope with anticipated 5G applications.
Visitors to the RF/microwave industry’s largest conference and exhibition can sample some of the hardware, software, and test-equipment products that are turning 5G and IoT into...
This rack-mountable, 20 × 6 nonblocking switch matrix provides the performance and flexibility to speed and simplify connections to multiple test systems.
Frequency translation is essential to communications and other electronic systems, and can be achieved in a number of ways with or without an additional signal source.
Market trends, such as small-cell infrastructure and broadband applications, are driving suppliers to deliver amplifiers with cutting-edge performance.
Coaxial cable assemblies must route high-frequency signals through many shapes and diameters, all the while maintaining signal integrity and minimizing losses.
A large portion of a small industry is set to show its hardware, software, and test equipment at this year’s IMS exhibition in San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Innovations in RF/microwave product areas continue as manufacturers prepare for higher-volume applications in mobile wireless communications products and wearable devices.
Coaxial cable assemblies are often required for transferring signals to and from a device under test (DUT), but their importance is often overlooked when assembling a test setup...
Directional couplers come in many shapes, sizes, and frequency ranges and with many different performance levels, depending upon the needs of an application.
Power measurements are an important part of high-frequency design, and are now available using the measurement capabilities of a USB sensor and the control of a personal computer...
Interconnecting components come in many shapes and sizes, with performance a function of rigidity or flexibility, mechanical design, and construction materials.
Frequency mixers provide a reliable means of translating signal frequencies higher or lower as needed, and across the wide bandwidths required in many RF/microwave systems.
Attenuation comes in many shapes, sizes, and formats, and can be integrated into a system or application as a quick fix or if there’s a need for a range of attenuation.
The exhibition area is open for slightly less than three days, and visitors can easily spend all of their time just scouring the sections of the show floor and the companies devoted...
Test equipment and measurement methods have long been the cornerstones of RF/microwave electronic technologies, even though they are also often taken for granted as part of the...
Covering frequency ranges from 1 to 4000 MHz and 1 to 6000 MHz, these programmable step attenuators are fast, accurate, and command as much as 120-dB attenuation.
Product advances during the year benefit customers of active and passive components, as well as test equipment, serving applications from RF through millimeter-wave frequencies...
With the Microwave Industry Awards, Microwaves & RF provides a forum for industry members to share their appreciation for companies that excel in categories ranging from website...
Based on an advanced semiconductor process, this double-balanced mixer promises batch-to-batch repeatability and consistency of performance for a wide frequency range.
By providing a global gathering for all microwave technologists, the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS) again promises to be the gem of Microwave Week.
Wireless technologies are demanding higher frequencies and wider bandwidths with every new innovation. Adapters and couplers are the glue that binds high performance elements ...
After a pummeling from Superstorm Sandy, this is the story of one company’s efforts to recover from the storm damage and be ready for customers within two short days.
Understanding the causes of phase noise in RF/microwave frequency sources can help to minimize that noise and its effects on high-frequency applications.
For protecting sensitive circuits and components such as low-noise amplifiers (LNA) from damage due to high-level signals, the model RLM-33-2W high-speed limiter from Mini-Circuits...
Model DTO-2G18G-CD-1 is a digitally controlled oscillator (DTO) for applications from 2 to 18 GHz. It achieves worst-case tuning accuracy of ±2 MHz at room temperature with minimum...
Efforts to make a wide array of military and commercial radar systems smaller, lighter, and less expensive depend largely on increased digital processing and higher levels of ...
Mixers capable of translating one set of signal frequencies to another with minimal loss in the process are invaluable for high frequency receivers and transmitters. Mixers such...
Mini-Circuitsas expanded its global distribution network to India with the launch of TejasRF.com. The site gives consumers access to Mini-Circuits' entire catalog of RF/IF and...
Oscillators are following a trend of smaller packages and lower power consumption while also delivering enhanced spectral purity and leveraging a number of different technologies...
A large number of suppliers offer custom configurations and standard lengths of low-loss coaxial cables for use with test equipment, many with online calculators to predict performance...
Components provided excellent performance 50 years ago. But they have improved electrically along the way, taking advantage of material and manufacturing advances to shave costs...
The IMS has traditionally served as a midpoint of each year for many microwave companies, not only to swap notes on markets and opportunities but to assess the development of ...
Although often overlooked, it is these additional active and passive components that make many measurements possible in even the most elaborate of test systems.
A certain amount of flexibility is helpful in cable assemblies used for measurement applications, especially when making high-frequency or high-speed interconnections.
As the footprint for high-power systems shrinks, device and component designers are answering the call with creative ways to dissipate more heat in smaller packages.
The latest generation of miniature surface-mount RF and microwave filters draw upon a variety of technologies to achieve small size while maintaining low passband insertion loss...
Each IMS exhibition (or, for those of us who are part of the older generation, the MTT-S exhibition) is different, year after year. Veterans will remember some outstanding shows...
Precision cables are usually the last addition to a microwave test system. Often, they are an afterthought. The wrong cables, however, can add unstable electrical characteristics...
As applications ranging from communications to defense place new demands on tight amplitude control, microwave engineers increasingly rely on digital attenuators for precision...
At RF and microwave frequencies, the more pertinent question often is, "What is the package?" At higher frequencies, the package can have as much effect on the performance as ...
Compact battery-powered portable test instruments and newer USB-equipped test instruments are providing flexibility and cost savings over larger, traditional benchtop RF/microwave...
Directional couplers are often needed to monitor incident or reflected power, sample signals, or inject signals onto transmission lines. These passive components are critical ...
Although these interconnection components are often taken for granted, suppliers are improving the reliability of their products and extracting the highest, most stable performance...
This June, the historic city of Boston will welcome thousands of members of the RFand microwave industry as they experience the latest technology innovations, product announcements...
Power dividers and combiners are often needed to divide or combine signals in a variety of commercial and military systems. They are still available in traditional metal housings...
High-frequency components supplier Mini-Circuits has announced custom frequency synthesizer design services for applications from 167 through 6010 MHz. The synthesizers can be...
Synthesizer specifiers are expecting more performance in smaller packages, with lower power consumption and improved phase noise in support of digitally modulated communications...
