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Industry’s First Battery Operated, Portable 20 GHz Synthesized Signal Generator!

10 MHz to 20 GHz Frequency Performance & 4 Hours of Continuous Battery Operation hmc-t2100b_portable-r2

Chelmsford, MA 04/21/2010 -

Hittite Microwave Corporation, the world class supplier of complete MMIC based solutions for communication & military markets, has launched the HMC-T2100B, the first battery operated, 10 MHz to 20 GHz Portable Synthesized Signal Generator. Designed to fulfill signal generation needs in the field or on the bench, and priced at only $14,998, the HMC-T2100B provides the highest output power, lowest harmonic levels and broadest frequency range compared with portable signal generators of similar size and cost.

For customers who would like a more information or a  demonstration of this new synthesizer, please Contact Us Here.

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Paula Nelson celebrates 10 years with CWS!

IMGP3953Custom & Wireless Sales has now had the privilege of having Paula on its team for 10 years!

We shared this fine Sacher Torte with Paula in appreciation of her excellent contributions to Customer Service and support of our efforts. Like many businesses, there are always ups and downs. Throughout the “wireless booms and busts”, as well as the recent economic challenges, Paula has been a great foundation in presenting a friendly, professional and courteous presence for all who call us.

We have been a growing company since Paula joined us and she has been one of the reasons. She plays an invaluable role in helping us solve the various problems that arise in daily business situations.

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Empower RF Systems selects CWS for Representation…

empowerampCustom & Wireless Sales now can offer a wide range of High Power, Solid-State Amplifiers up to 6 GHz from Empower RF Systems.

Empower is widely known for designing robust modules and systems for the most demanding applications such as used in the Military and Aerospace markets. However, they also leverage their technology in commercial applications such as Wireless Systems and Broadcast. Another area Empower supports power amplification for EMI / RFI Testing.

Please contact us if you would like a catalog or additional information.

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New Linear Regulators make for better Phase Noise

Hittite now offers a very low noise regulator suitable for biasing oscillators and related circuitry where power supply-induced phase noise is of concern. Please click below for more information, or contact us here.


Power Conditioning Product Line




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Product Announcement from Hittite, January 7, 2010


Power Conditioning Product Line


Low Noise, High PSRR Regulator for Demanding Telematics Applications

HMC860LP3E Low Noise Spectral Density: 3nV/?Hz, High Power Supply Rejection
Ratio: 80 dB at 1 kHz, Four Regulated Outputs are Adjustable from 2.5V to 5.2V

The HMC860LP3E is ideal for conditioning the DC supply for Hittite’s PLLs, VCOs and PLL w/ Integrated VCO products.


Hittite Introduces Four New Product Lines!

Hittite now offers four new product lines: Power Conditioning, High Speed Comparators, PLLs w/Integrated VCOs and Dielectric Resonator Oscillators (DROs).

Hittite offers over 800 RoHS and RoHS-5 compliant products across 24 product lines. Released data sheets for all of Hittite’s latest products can be found by visiting the New Products section of our website.


Hittite Microwave Corporation 20 Alpha Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824 U.S.A.
Ph: 978-250-3343 Fax: 978-250-3373 www.hittite.com email: sales@hittite.com Hittite Microwave Privacy Policy

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We moved upstairs!

Custom & Wireless Sales is located at the same address as before, but we have moved upstairs into an expanded space. This extra space will allow for larger meetings and presentations for customer and principals alike. Custom & Wireless Sales is conveniently located at:

42 W. Campbell Ave., Suite 202
Campbell, CA 95008
Phone: 408-371-0222

42 W.CampbellAVe

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Hittite News!

HMC-pll-vcoPlease click on the image above for access to data sheets. If you have an application for these types of devices, please call Custom & Wireless Sales at 408-371-0222. Evaluation Boards and Samples are available to qualified customers.

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Florida RF Labs provides coaxial cable calculator…

Florida RF Labs provides an easy online tool to specify coaxial cable assemblies up to 40 GHz.

This interactive tool allows Engineers to first select cable type according to their Frequency Band and L0ss / Ft.  requirements. One can then select connector types, cable presferences etc. to zero in requirements.

Florida RF Labs can build Semi-Rigid, Conformable and Flexible Cable assemblies to meet demanding test applications.

Posted in Florida RF Labs, Tools.


EMC on-line Temperature Variable Attenuator tool…

EMC-TVA-ToolEMC Technology provides an online tool for the optimum selection of its temperature variable attenuators (TVAs).

Engineers now have an easy way to enter their circuit losses (or gains) over temperature and by making TVA selections they can immediately see the resulting combined frequency response. Once a candidate TVA has been identified, samples and quotes can be requested.

EMC Technology has a wide range of resistive products available, such as TVA’s, Chip Attenuators, & Terminations.

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Free ComNav Engineering “Dionysus” Filter Design Software

dion-smithChartComNav Engineering has some neat software for Engineers that need to specify or design filters. And the best part is that it’s FREE.

Download it here.

Designs include:
Lowpass Filters, Highpass Filters,  Bandpass Filters, Notch Filters,  Diplexers, Multiplexers, Delay Equalizers, Amplitude Equalizers, Attenuators, Coax Resonators, Puck Resonators, Microstrip, Stripline, Round and Square Rod Coupled and Transmission Lines.

Many Analysis options are available, including:
S Parameter, Return Loss, Continued…

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Hittite releases line of Integrated VCO’s & PLL ICs…

Hittite Integrated VCO / PLL Diagram

PLL with Integrated VCO Product Line Enables Miniature LO Solutions

Industry’s First Fractional-N Synthesizers with Integrated Microwave VCOs to 13.4 GHz!

Chelmsford, Ma 10/14/2009 -

Hittite Microwave Corporation, the world class supplier of complete MMIC based solutions for communication & military markets, has introduced a new line of SMT packaged PLLs with Integrated Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) which are ideal for microwave radio, military, industrial sensors and test and measurement applications from 7.3 GHz to 13.4 GHz.

The HMC764LP6CE, HMC765LP6CE, HMC783LP6CE and HMC807LP6CE are SiGe BiCMOS PLL with Integrated VCO RFICs which provide output frequency coverage of 7.3 to 8.2 GHz, 7.8 to 8.8 GHz, 11.5 to 12.5 GHz, and 12.4 to 13.4 GHz respectively.

Each of these new products include an advanced fractional-N synthesizer and an ultra low noise VCO in a 6×6 mm QFN plastic package, while requiring a minimal number of external components. Continued…

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ANADIGICS Selects Custom & Wireless Sales…

anadigics1We are pleased to announce that ANADIGICS (Warren, NJ) has selected us to represent their products in Northern California & Northern Nevada. The company has a wide selection of RFIC’s up to 6 GHz. Power Amplifiers targeted for standard applications for handheld, base station and infrastructure products.

awl9966_productimageWe will be highlighting many new product introductions as they occur. For example, Anadigics has released the AWL9966 Front End Integrated Circuit for 802.11 a/b/g/n & Bluetooth applications.

Please contact us if you require catalogs or further information.



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Jennic releases new ZigBee Pro solutions….

JN5148 ZigBee Pro Single Chip Processor / RF TransceiverJN5148 Wireless Microcontroller – ZigBee PRO Platform

The JN5148 launches Jennic’s latest generation of ultra low power, low cost wireless microcontrollers for wireless sensor networking applications based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard, including ZigBee PRO.

It offers an enhanced 32-bit RISC processor featuring improved coding efficiency and up to 32MIPs performance, a fully compliant 2.4GHz IEEE802.15.4 transceiver, 128kB of ROM and 128kB of RAM to support both the networking protocol stack and user application on-chip, and a rich mix of user peripherals.

The 32-bit RISC CPU achieves world class performance through its variable instruction width, multi-stage instruction pipeline and prioritised interrupt scheduler.

The highest levels of on-chip integration also means that the device offers many new and innovative peripheral enhancements, such as:

  • 4-wire digital audio interface that will connect directly to mainstream audio CODECs
  • Low power sleep counters designed for pulse counting in AMR applications
  • Time of Flight (TOF) ranging engine (with patent pending) for use in location aware systems based on IEEE802.15.4

The JN5148 sets new benchmarks for the lowest power consumption, highest processing capability and the highest levels of integration in a single chip wireless microcontroller. Continued…

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New Hittite Fundamantal Mixer 6 – 26 GHz

Features

• Passive: No DC Bias Required
• Input IP3: +22 dBm
• LO/RF Isolation: 38 dB
• Wide IF Bandwidth: DC – 8 GHz
• 12 Lead 3×3mm SMT Package: 9mm²

Typical Applications

• Point-to-Point Radio
• Point-to-Multi-Point Radios & VSAT
• Test Equipment and Sensors
• Military End-Use

Functional Diagram

General Description

The HMC773LC3B is a general purpose double balanced mixer in a leadless RoHS compliant SMT package that can be used as an upconverter or downconverter between 6 and 26 GHz. This mixer requires no external components or matching circuitry. The HMC773LC3B provides excellent LO to RF and LO to IF suppression due to optimized balun structures. The mixer operates with LO drive levels above +13 dBm. The HMC773LC3B eliminates the need for wire bonding, allowing use of surface mount manufacturing techniques.

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CWS now representing Senariotek

Custom & Wireless Sales is pleased to announce its representation of Switch Matrix and System Integration and Test specialist Senariotek based in Santa Rosa, CA. [Senariotek Web Site]

Switch Matrices inside-matrix

Every automatic test system (ATE) uses one or more switch matrices to route signals between the test equipment and the UUT. A switch matrix allows multiple measurements to be made, 1) with a single connection, and 2) automatically. The switch matrix can also provide signal conditioning for the test system.

Since both the stimulus and response signals must pass through the switch matrix, the characteristics of the matrix signal paths directly affect the accuracy and integrity of all measurements. It is impossible to design a switch matrix that does not degrade the signal. However, the switch matrix can be optimized for a specific application, thereby minimizing signal degradation for the principal operating condition in that application.

System Integration

rack-b4-integrationrack-integrated-1 Scenariotek has vast experience designing and building custom Test Systems as well as integrating a customer’s unique appartus into a fully fiunctional, compact test system. Continued…

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New EMC / Florida RF Labs Condensed Catalog

emc-condensed-catalogEMC / Florida RF Labs has released a new Condensed Reference Catalog.

This brochure describes the wide range of products available in the various product lines including:

RF Terminations, Attenuators & Resistors in Surface Mount, Flange Mount and Coaxial configurations. Other offerings include HybriX® signal processing components, Temperature Variable Attenuators, High Power devices and Frequency Equalizers for slope correction.

The company also makes high quality microwave Cable Assemblies in various styles:

Flexible, Semi-Rigid and Conformable.

Lab Flex® cables offer high velocity and low loss dielectrics for lower  insertion loss.  These cables are suitable for demanding Test Applications with rugged strain relief and standard connector options for operation up to 50 GHz.

Please Contact us if you would like to receive this new brochure or if you have questions regarding EMC or Florida RF Labs capabilities.

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New Hittite Fractional PLL with Sweep Function

Hittite has released the latest IC in its Synthesizer PLL IC line, model HMC702LP6CE. Please contact us if you have an application for this device. Basic features are shown below.  Data Sheet is here.

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Features

• 24-Bit Step Size Resolution, 6 Hz typ
• Ultra Low Phase Noise
12 GHz, 50 MHz Ref.
-98 / -103 dBc/Hz @ 20 kHz
(Frac / Integer)
• Auto & Triggered Sweeper Functions
• Cycle Slip Prevention (CSP)
for Fast Settling
• Autotune Support for
External Step Tuned VCOs
• Multi-VCO Support
• 40 Lead 6×6mm SMT Package: 36mm²

Typical Applications

• Base Stations for Mobile Radio
(GSM, PCS, DCS, CDMA, WCDMA)
• Wireless LANs, WiMax
• Communications Test Equipment
• CATV Equipment
• FMCW Sensors
• Automotive Radar
• Phased-Array Systems



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Hittite to show New 20 GHz Synth in Bay Area June 4/5

hmc-t2100Hittite will be presenting this new low cost, fast-switching synthesizer unit in our area June 4 & 5.

Please contact us if you would like us to visit you with Marco Ventresca, Hittite Sales Engineer and demonstrate this new Product. More information is here.

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Custom & Wireless now represents MicroPower Direct

micropowerlogo-2We are very pleased to announce we now represent MicroPower Direct, a supplier of power solutions, such as:

* DC / DC Converters up to 40 Watts.

* AC / DC Power Supplies up to 1,000 Watts.

* Budget line of solutions for cost-sensitive applications.

Catalogs will be available for local delivery shortly.

Please contact us if you have requirements

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Custom & Wireless represents Jennic – 802.15.4 & Zigbee Solutions

jenniclogo11Jennic Ltd designs fully integrated Wireless Microcontrollers for 802.15.4 and Zigbee applications for command, control and data telemetry.

Evaluation kits are low cost and allow users to quickly verify performance capabilities and ease of use. Besides the RF Transceiver / 32-bit RISC microcontroller chips, Jennic also offers turn-key solutions in the form of fully functional and ready to use transceiver modules.

If you require data sheets or information on Jennet, Zigbee or 6LoPAN protocols, please contact us.

Kits, Modules and Transceivers are stocked and are available at Digi-Key.

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Hittite Releases New 0.01 – 20 GHz Synthesizer

Hittite has just announced its latest instrument, Model HMC-T2100. Priced at just $7998 this instrument offers exceptional value in a small form factor.

Some basic specifications and features are as follows: Continued…

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