14 GHz to 32 GHz, GaAs, MMIC, Double Balanced Mixer

The HMC292A chip is a miniature, passive, gallium arsenide (GaAs), monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC), double balanced mixer that can be used as an upconverter or a downconverter within the 14 GHz to 32 GHz RF frequency range with a small chip area. Excellent isolations are provided by an on-chip balun that requires no external components and no dc bias. All data is measured with the chip in a 50 Ω test fixture connected via 0.076 mm (0.003 inches) ribbon bonds of minimal length <0.31 mm (<0.012 inches).

Applications

* Microwave and very small aperture terminal (VSAT) radios

* Test equipment

* Point to point radios

* Military electronic warfare (EW); electronic countermeasure (ECM); and command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I)

* Passive: No DC Bias Required

* Conversion loss (downconverter): 9 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* Single-sideband noise figure: 11 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* Input IP3 (downconverter): 20 dBm typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* Input P1dB compression point (downconverter): 12 dBm typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* Input IP2: 53 dBm typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* RF to IF isolation: 30 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* LO to RF isolation: 46 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* LO to IF isolation: 34 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* RF return loss: 10 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* LO return loss: 9 dB typical at 14 GHz to 30 GHz

* Wide IF frequency range: dc to 8 GHz

* Small size: 7-pad bare die [CHIP]