GaAs, MMIC, Double Balanced Mixer, 24 - 32 GHz

The HMC329ALC3B is a general-purpose, double balanced mixer in a leadless, RoHS compliant, surface-mount technology (SMT) package that can be used as an upconverter or down-converter between 24 GHz and 32 GHz. This mixer is fabricated in a gallium arsenide (GaAs), monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) process and requires no external components or matching circuitry. The HMC329ALC3B provides excellent local oscillator (LO) to radio frequency (RF) and LO to intermediate frequency (IF) suppression due to optimized balun preliminary structures. The mixer operates with LO amplitude above 9 dBm. The RoHS compliant HMC329ALC3B eliminates the need for wire bonding, allowing the use of surface-mount manufacturing techniques.

Applications

* Microwave and very small aperture terminal (VSAT) radios

* Test equipment

* Military electronic warfare (EW)

* Electronic countermeasure (ECM)

* Command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I)

* Conversion loss (downconverter): 11 dB typical

* LO to RF isolation: 36.5 dB typical for 24 GHz to 30 GHz performance

* Input IP3 (downconverter): 20 dBm typical

* 12-terminal, RoHS compliant, 3 mm × 3 mm LCC package