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BLM15VM is an automotive ferrite beads inductor intended to block frequencies around 5.9GHz. Announced by Murata, it is particularly intended for 5G vehicle-to-everything (5G-V2X) applications. “In recent years, the use of high-frequency wireless communication in the automotive sector has increased.,” according to the company. “It is primarily used for content distribution for navigation, audio and other infotainment systems. Improving sensitivity ...

Menlo Micro announced an 80Gbit/s PAM4 loop-back switch for testing asymmetric SerDes busses at IMS 2025, the International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco. “MM5625 delivers over 100 different configurations for the most complex SerDes bus test challenges,” according to the company. It can “support the high-speed differential signal switching required in the latest PCIe Gen 5, Gen 6, and other ...

Phlux Technology has announced 1550nm avalanche photodiode with a 3.5GHz cut-off. Part of its existing Aura range, the speed increase comes from a reduced die size, down to 30µm from 80µm (1.8GHz) or 200µm (700MHz), which drops capacitance to between 0.15 and 0.4pF. “This makes it ideal for high-speed, time-critical applications, such as those found in gigabit speed optical communications, ...

Standex Electronics has created a reed relay that measures 7.95 x 4.67 x 3.6mm and can switch 100V, 200mA, 3W or 8GHz. 8GHz is the -3dB frequency, at which the switch offers -5dB isolation when open. There are two versions: UJ-103RF has a 3.3V 90Ω coil UJ-105RF has a 5V 150Ω coil “This series is designed to meet the demand ...

Samtec has designed a series of surface-mount board-to-board connectors that can handle 28Gbit/s NRZ signals and are only 2mm tall when mated. SLH/TLH Series “offer connections in high data rate rugged environments such as automotive, industrial IoT, robotics, military and aerospace”, it claimed. TLH is the part with the narrow raised ridge along the center, and SLH is the part ...

Anritsu has created a 9kHz to 54GHz spectrum analyser module that can be added to other test set-ups. MS27200A-0754, as it will be known, has 110MHz real-time analysis bandwidth, where it can can stream and capture IQ in 32bits, and -164 dBm DANL. That said, much of this performance requires options to be purchased and added. “The module is self-contained, ...

Component distributor Richardson RFPD is stocking a 5 to 8GHz GaAs pHEMT low noise linear amplifier from Guerrilla RF, and has added it to its design support service. Measuring 1.5 x 1.5mm (DFN-6), GRF2110 is aimed at WiFi 6/6E, small cell and wireless infrastructure. It operates from 2.7 to 6V, drawing 70mA at 5V. Power is applied to the output ...

A mixer-first sliding-IF architecture has been chosen by a PhD student to create a 300GHz radio receiver front-end using 300GHz Ft (450GHz Fmax) transistors from a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS process. According to the thesis of Sumit Singh, studying at University of Oulu in Finland, down-conversion of the 300GHz carrier is initially by a local oscillator at two-thirds of the carrier, ...

Adding a third terminal to an LED can make it 50% faster, according to researchers at the iGaN Lab, led by Professor Haiding Sun at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). They took the idea of driving an LED via a hybrid-T network, which combine ac and dc drive signals, one stage further, building a capacitively-coupled ac ...

Samtec has created a line of RF connectors that mount to the edge of PCB by bolting rather than soldering. They measure only 9.5mm from side-to-side where they sit on the PCB and are under 8mm from top to bottom (see photo) “These connectors are commonly used in a lab setting for high-frequency test and measurement and evaluation boards,” according ...