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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. A low frequency quadrature hybrid produces a 100 MHz intermediate frequency (IF) output. 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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