Thermopad® products are a totally passive, easy to implement solution for gain compensation designed specifically for demanding high reliability applications.
Temperature Variable Attenuators
Thermopad® products are a totally passive, easy to implement solution for gain compensation designed specifically for demanding high reliability applications.
Features & Benefits
Smiths Interconnect is the world leader in temperature variable attenuators from DC through Ka Band, featuring our patented Thermopad line of products which compensate for gain variation over temperature. The Thermopad® (Patent # 5,332,981) is a totally passive, surface mountable temperature variable attenuator. It requires no bias or control voltages and does not generate distortion. The Thermopad can be used in place of a standard chip attenuator to combine level setting or buffering and temperature compensation in a single chip design. This will reduce component count, increase reliability, and lower costs. Applications include power amplifiers, mixers, MMIC amplifiers, directional couplers and diode detectors.
SignalCore continues to enlarge its nanoCircuits® platform with the introduction of 3 new synthesizers as part of the SMT nanoSynth® family. The SC801A and SC802A, part of our Hummingbird series, are fully integrated broadband CW signal synthesizers that tune at 1 Hz resolution between the range of 0.625 GHz to 10 GHz and 1.25 GHz to 20 GHz respectively.
The SC5318A is a C to K broadband single-stage downconverter, converting frequencies from 6 GHz to 26.5 GHz down to 50 MHz to 3 GHz. The LO frequency range is from 6 to 26.5 GHz with an input LO range from 6 to 14 GHz.
Reliable dissipation of signal power for 50-Ohm and 75-Ohm systems from DC to 65 GHz.