Analog Devices HMC292A-DIE Product Info

• 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]

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)