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• Ready-to-use solution covering 24GHz – 44GHz, including 28/39 GHz 5G bands
• Featuring Analog Devices ADMV1013 and ADMV1014 Up/Downconverter
• Complete solution includes PLL/VCO, filters, hybrid coupler, and programming interface

Austin, Texas, April 27, 2020 – X-Microwave, LLC the market leader in RF and Microwave drop-in components announced today two new mmWave Reference Design Kits, XM-RDK-201 (ADMV1013 Upconverter) and XM-RDK-202 (ADMV1014 Downconverter). These ready-to-use solutions include all of the components needed to successfully up-convert and down-convert mmWave waveforms from low frequency IF (800 MHz – 6 GHz) to RF frequencies (24GHz to 44GHz). The reference design kits are built using X-MWblock® modular building blocks and include the required supporting components for generating and filtering the local oscillator (LO) as well as a 90° hybrid coupler for the IF input/output. The PLL/VCO and Up/Downconverter are programmed though the included X-MWcontroller touch screen interface.

“The ADMV1013 and ADMV1014 up/downconverters are highly integrated ICs that can serve many applications, but require additional components to use them effectively.” said Erik Luther, Vice President at X-Microwave, “We’re excited to provide a read-to-use solution for both component evaluation and prototyping production integrated microwave assemblies with X-MWblocks.”

The X-Microwave design system (X-MWsystem) consists of modular X-MWblock drop-in components featuring amplifiers, mixers, switches, attenuators, and more from the industry’s leading component manufacturers.  Individual X-MWblocks can be connected together solderlessly to rapidly build RF and Microwave assemblies from DC to 60 GHz. X-MWblocks are designed for use in production applications either individually as single-function connectorized modules or together in a cascade to rapidly produce custom integrated microwave assemblies (IMAs).

Visit xmicrowave.com to learn more about X-Microwave Reference Design Kits

About X-Microwave, LLC
X-Microwave is the global leader in modular RF and Microwave drop-in components featuring packaged and bare die devices from the industry’s leading manufacturers.  The modular X-MWblocks® design system allows RF and Microwave engineers to design, prototype, and produce integrated microwave assemblies (IMAs) faster at lower cost with increased probability of first past design success. X-MWblocks are designed and manufactured by X-Microwave in Austin, Texas (USA). For more information, visit www.xmicrowave.com

The X-Microwave portfolio of Mini-Circuits products now includes over 800 Mini-Circuits models on over 1,000 X-MWblock drop-in modules. It more than doubles the number of offerings that were first available when the partnership between the two companies began in 2017. The expanded selection features models in 12 categories, which include:

• Amplifiers
• Attenuators
• Couplers
• Equalizers
• Filters
• Limiters
• Mixers
• Multipliers
• Splitters
• Switches
• Transformers and baluns
• VCOs

In addition to the growing variety of drop-in blocks, X-Microwave introduced over 700 part numbers for Mini-Circuits components in connectorized housings for evaluation and integration into subassemblies.

X-Microwave’s X-MWsystem is a modular, solderless evaluation system that incorporates thousands of physically compatible drop-in building blocks from multiple manufacturers for prototyping microwave assemblies. System blocks come fully characterized and modeled with X-parameters, S-parameters, and Sys-parameters. As a result, simulation and physical configuration through X-Microwave’s free online tools for nonlinear simulation and mechanical layout becomes an easier task. This modular approach, which eliminates the need for custom evaluation board layouts, has turned into a popular solution within the industry to shorten design cycles and accelerate time to market.

“Our partnership with X-Microwave has allowed us to offer a valuable and truly innovative resource to customers using Mini-Circuits components in their designs,” says Steven Scheinkopf, VP of technical marketing at Mini-Circuits. “We’re very pleased to continue expanding the partnership to support our customers’ design efforts with even more options.”

John Richardson, president of X-Microwave adds, “We are very excited about the number of Mini-Circuits parts that are now available on our drop-in format. Mini-Circuits’ broad range of parts and our modular system make it easy for designers to quickly transition from prototype to production hardware.  For maximum flexibility, we are aggressively designing in the full portfolio of Mini-Circuits SMT and die parts.”

IDT and X-Microwave Partner to Deliver Complete Modular RF Design Solutions for Easy Design, Simulation, and Prototyping

Customers are able to design with more than 20 IDT RF products utilizing X-Microwave’s patented building block system and simulation tools

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) (NASDAQ: IDTI) today announced that it has partnered with X-Microwave, an industry leader in modular RF and microwave systems and tools, and innovator of the “Modular Building Block System”, to deliver a complete solution for customers designing with IDT RF and microwave products.

IDT’s industry-leading innovative product portfolio of flexible broad band RF solutions enables next-generation communication systems, allowing customers to increase data rates and optimize efficiency. Today’s higher data rates drive the need for better radio signal-to-noise ratios, which translates to the need for IDT’s higher linearity RF components. IDT’s patented RF solutions with unique technical innovations address the evolving needs of a wide range of applications, including 4G and 5G base stations, communications systems, microwave (RF/IF), CATV, test and measurement systems, and industrial applications.

X-Microwave delivers a complete modular building block eco-system of RF and microwave drop-in components, as well as test and prototyping accessories. The initial offering of X-Microwave modular solutions featuring IDT products will include RF switches, mixers, digital step attenuators (DSAs), voltage variable attenuators (VVAs), variable gain amplifiers (VGAs), and wideband RF synthesizers/PLLs.

“We are excited about our partnership with X-Microwave and the new opportunities and resources it will bring to our RF customers,” said Duncan Pilgrim, general manager of IDT’s RF group. “IDT’s customers will now have access to our industry-best RF products coupled with complete design tools to address every phase of the development process from concept to prototype to production hardware.”

“X-Microwave is happy to have established a partnership with IDT, an innovative leader in the RF market,” said John Richardson, President and founder of X-Microwave. “X-Microwave’s modular building blocks along with advanced simulation tools provide customers an easy and elegant way to simulate, prototype and produce new designs. Our boards and tools reduce design risk and accelerate time to market.”

IDT’s initial rollout will include more than 20 RF products as drop-in modular blocks, with more coming in the near future. To see the complete list of compatible products, visit idt.com/x-microwave. For more information about IDT’s industry-leading portfolio of RF switches and other broadband solutions, visit the RF Products webpage or contact your local IDT sales representative.

About X-Microwave
X-Microwave is the founder of the innovative modular building block system called X-MWsystem. X-Microwave’s modular drop-in components and industry leading online tools address every phase of the RF and microwave development process from concept to prototype to production hardware. To “Get on the Grid” and realize the full potential of X-Microwave’s modular system, visit xmicrowave.com.

About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers’ applications. IDT’s market-leading products in RF, high performance timing, memory interface, real-time interconnect, optical interconnect, wireless power, and smart sensors are among the company’s broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.” Additional information about IDT can be found at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube.

© 2017, Integrated Device Technology, Inc. IDT and the IDT logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Integrated Device Technology, Inc., and its worldwide subsidiaries. All other brands, product names and marks are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks used to identify products or services of their respective owners.

IDT Press Contact:
Krista Pavlakos
Director, Demand Creation & Communications
Phone: (408) 574-6640
Email: Krista.Pavlakos@idt.com

SOURCE Integrated Device Technology, Inc.

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Mini-Circuits Components Now Available in Modular Drop-In Format from X-Microwave

7 August 2017 – Round Rock, TX and Brooklyn, NY – Mini-Circuits and X-Microwave are pleased to announce their collaboration to offer a wide selection of Mini-Circuits’ components in X-MWblock^® drop-in format. X-Microwave, an innovative leader committed to optimizing the RF/microwave design process, has developed X-MWsystem^®, the industry’s first truly modular, solderless evaluation system with a growing portfolio of physically compatible drop-in building blocks for prototyping microwave assemblies. Mini-Circuits is proud to extend availability of our products through the X-Microwave component ecosystem as part of our commitment to providing best-in-class technical resources for customers designing Mini-Circuits parts into their systems.

The partnership launches today with an initial offering of over 400 X-MWblocks for Mini-Circuits components, including our popular LTCC filters, patented MMIC reflectionless filters, attenuators, mixers, multipliers, limiters, couplers, splitters and high-performance MMIC amplifiers, with more models planned for future release. System blocks come fully characterized and modeled with X-parameters^® and S-Parameters, enabling easy simulation through X-Microwave’s free, online, non-linear simulation tool based on Keysight’s Genesys Spectrasys^® engine. After simulation, designers can quickly configure signal chains using an online Mechanical Layout Tool (MLT) by moving 2-D models of the components around on the grid. The X-MWblocks for Mini-Circuits components are then physically configured on a solderless prototyping plate to build integrated microwave assemblies for testing and design validation. The same drop-in components can then be moved into compatible production housings. This novel, modular approach eliminates the need for custom evaluation board layouts, dramatically shortening design cycles and accelerating time to market

“X-Microwave is proud to partner with Mini-Circuits to offer their unique range of high performance RF and microwave components on our modular drop-in format,” says John Richardson, President of X-Microwave. “Adding Mini-Circuits components to our portfolio is an exciting step in our mission to provide the full complement of components across all categories enabling designers to quickly and efficiently develop any market solution.”

Mini-Circuits President, Ted Heil comments, “Through our partnership with X-Microwave, we’re enabling our customers to more rapidly validate Mini-Circuits models at the system level and confirm their simulation results. We all know parasitics and real-life environmental effects are important factors in evaluating performance. X-Microwave’s drop-in blocks with their jumper-anchor interface is a very novel way to create a low parasitic that you can’t achieve by combining traditional supplier eval boards. We think the X-Microwave system adds another element to the engineer’s toolbox to capture more realistic results and speed up the transition from concept to working design.”

Look for the X-Microwave link on selected Mini-Circuits product dashboard pages to view corresponding X-Microwave dashboards. Mini-Circuits will also maintain an online directory of Mini-Circuits part numbers referenced to sibling X-Microwave part numbers as a convenience to our customers.

About X-Microwave
X-Microwave, LLC, is the founder of the innovative modular building block system called X-MWsystem. X-Microwave’s modular drop-in components and industry leading online tools address every phase of the RF and microwave development process from concept to prototype to production hardware. To “Get on the Grid” and realize the full potential of X-Microwave’s modular system, visit www.xmicrowave.com.

About Mini-Circuits
Mini-Circuits is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of RF and microwave components and systems for commercial, industrial, medical, space and military applications from DC to 50 GHz. Mini-Circuits’ 27 product lines comprise thousands of off-the-shelf and custom models supporting over 20,000 customers worldwide.

We’ve expanded our collaboration with X-Microwave, the innovative developers of a modular/drop-in simulation, prototyping, and production system for solderless and reconfigurable RF/microwave circuits up to 67 GHz. The X-MWblockTM system enables efficient and expedient microwave and millimeter-wave circuit development and testing, using industry grade non-linear online simulation tools powered by Keysight’s Genesys Spectrasys engine. The expanded partnership will bring over 35 of Custom MMIC’s leading LNAs, PAs, Distributed Amplifiers, Driver Amplifiers, Low Phase Noise Amplifiers, Phase Shifters, Switches, and Mixers to the X-Microwave system.The companies have plans to add more of the 100-plus products available from Custom MMIC to the X-MWBlockTM system in the near future.

“We are excited to further expand our relationship with X-Microwave”, says John Greichen, Vice President Sales and Marketing for Custom MMIC, “Their X-MWsystemTM is a cost-effective, rapid prototyping system which saves our customers in development time and expense.”

The X-Microwave system leverages a unique grid-based modular architecture that facilitates drop-in component configuration of a complete RF, microwave, or millimeter-wave system. Initially, the X-Parameter and S-Parameter models of each X-MWblockTM can be assembled and analyzed in X-Microwave’s free online system simulation tool. Once desired performance is achieved, the necessary X-MWblockTM components can be purchased with a modular prototype platform. After testing and verification, these same components can be seamlessly integrated into a final production assembly housing. The X-MWsystem provides unprecedented ease of simulation, design, prototyping, and integration of microwave and millimeter-wave components, such as Custom MMIC’s wide range of high performance RF and Microwave MMICs.

“We are excited to announce our extended collaboration with Custom MMIC to offer their broad range of RF and Microwave products on our format”, says John Richardson, Founder and President of X-Microwave, “Custom MMIC products, such as their latest Low Phase Noise packaged amplifiers to 22 GHz and in DIE form to 40 GHz, are filling industry gaps and are exciting additions to our portfolio of Drop-In Components.”

Our innovative MMICs easily work within the X-Microwave modular platform, and provide distinct features that even further reduce system design time and complexity. For example, many of our GaAs LNAs, PAs, Distributed Amplifiers, and Driver Amplifiers benefit from our design expertise with positive bias and positive gain slope features, which reduce the need for costly additional bias and gain conditioning circuitry. Furthermore, our leading ultra-low noise LNAs and low phase noise amplifiers (LPNAs) offer critical performance requirements for next-generation Electronic Warfare, SIGINT, satellite, and communications technologies.

About X-Microwave
X-Microwave, LLC, is the founder of the innovative modular building block system called X-MWsystemTM. X-Microwave’s modular drop-in components and online tools address every phase of the RF and microwave development process from concept to prototype to production hardware. To “Get on the Grid” and realize the full potential of X-Microwave’s modular system, visit https://www.xmicrowave.com.

MACOM and X-Microwave Collaborate to Enable Faster, Easier Design of High-Performance RF Systems

Combination of MACOM’s high-performance MMICs and X-Microwave’s simulation and prototyping platform affords designers “building block” design agility for faster time to market

European Microwave Week (EuMW), London, October 5, 2016 – MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high-performance RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic products, and X-Microwave, an innovative leader in modular system design, today announced the availability of MACOM-based RF components for use with X-Microwave’s online simulation and prototyping platform. Pre-configured with high-performance MACOM MMICs, these drop-in and cascadable components called “X-MWblocks” enable designers to quickly and easily architect modular, end-to-end RF systems.

For over 60 years, MACOM’s design and applications experts have spearheaded innovation in the RF, microwave and millimeterwave domain. Proven engineering and technical support teams are continuing in this legacy with a next generation of wide band MMIC solutions designed for the most demanding customer applications.

MACOM’s support for the X-Microwave platform equips designers to take advantage of MACOM’s industry-leading MMIC performance and quality, with the added ability to seamlessly interconnect hundreds of compatible, pre-characterized X-MWblock components with solderless, building block flexibility. This dramatically reduces evaluation and design complexity and enables designers to accelerate their time to market. With this collaboration, X-Microwave users can now take advantage of a broad selection of MACOM MMICs, spanning amplifiers, mixers, frequency multipliers, octave band VCOs, RF switches, voltage variable attenuators and phase shifters.

“MACOM is recognized in the industry for delivering MMIC products with superior RF performance, packaging and reliability all of which are optimized to meet designers’ most demanding system challenges,” said Graham Board, Senior Director, RF and Microwave, at MACOM. “Through our collaboration with X-Microwave, designers now have the ability to leverage all of these benefits in a manner that can dramatically accelerate their system prototyping and shorten design cycles.”

“X-Microwave is committed to optimizing the design process for RF engineers through every phase of the development process,” said John Richardson, President and CEO, X-Microwave. “With the addition of MACOM MMICs to our component ecosystem, X-Microwave users are assured leading-edge RF performance and quality from the foremost innovator in the RF and microwave industry.”

For more information about the MACOM-based RF components available for use with the X-Microwave simulation and prototyping platform, visit https://www.xmicrowave.com/products/by-manufacturer/macom-mmics-x-mwblocks/. For a video overview of the X-Microwave platform in action, visit https://www.xmicrowave.com/library/video/.

MACOM is showcasing its new portfolio of high-performance MMICs and its collaboration with X-Microwave this week at European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2016. Attendees can visit MACOM at stand #207, October 4th-6th, 2016 in London. For more information on MACOM’s high-performance MMICs, please visit: www.macom.com/mmics.
ABOUT MACOM

MACOM enables a better-connected and safer world by delivering breakthrough semiconductor technologies for optical, wireless and satellite networks that satisfy society’s insatiable demand for information.

Today, MACOM powers the infrastructure that millions of lives and livelihoods depend on every minute to communicate, transact business, travel, stay informed and be entertained.  Our technology increases the speed and coverage of the mobile Internet and enables fiber optic networks to carry previously unimaginable volumes of traffic to businesses, homes and datacenters.

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ABOUT X-MICROWAVE

X-Microwave, LLC, is the founder of the innovative modular building block system called X-MWsystem.  X-Microwave’s modular drop-in components and industry leading online tools address every phase of the RF and microwave development process from concept to prototype to production hardware. To “Get on the Grid” and realize the full potential of X-Microwave’s modular system, visit www.xmicrowave.com.

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