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Overview

Features and Benefits

  • Downconverter, 8.5 GHz to 13.5 GHz
    • Conversion loss: 9 dB typical
    • Image rejection: 27.5 dBc typical
    • LO to RF isolation: 39 dB typical
    • Input IP3: 16 dBm typical
  • Wide IF Bandwidth: dc to 3.5 GHz
  • 3.9 mm × 3.9 mm, 24-terminal LCC package: 16 mm²

Product Details

The HMC521ALC4 is a compact, gallium arsenide (GaAs), monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC), inphase quadrature (I/Q) mixer in a RoHS compliant, 24-terminal ceramic leadless chip carrier (LCC) package. This device can be used as either an image reject mixer or a single sideband upconverter. The mixer uses two standard, double balanced mixer cells and a 90° hybrid coupler fabricated in a GaAs, metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) process. This device is a smaller alternative to hybrid style image reject mixers and single sideband upconverter assemblies. The HMC521ALC4 eliminates the need for wire bonding, allowing use of surface-mount manufacturing techniques.

Applications

  • Microwave and very small aperture terminal (VSAT) radios
  • Test equipment
  • Military electronic warfare (EW); electronic countermeasure (ECM); and command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I)

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Design Resources

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Part Number Material Declaration Reliability Data Pin/Package Drawing CAD Symbols, Footprints & 3D Models
HMC521A-SX Material Declaration Reliability Data CHIPS OR DIE
HMC521ACHIPS Material Declaration Reliability Data CHIPS OR DIE
HMC521ALC4 Material Declaration Reliability Data 24-Lead LCC (4 x 4mm)
HMC521ALC4TR Material Declaration Reliability Data 24-Lead LCC (4 x 4mm)
HMC521ALC4TR-R5 Material Declaration Reliability Data 24-Lead LCC (4 x 4mm)
Wafer Fabrication Data

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