RF and Microwave

RF and Microwave

Analog Devices RF and Microwave offerings provide the broadest capabilities in the industry coupled with deep system design expertise. We can support your designs with complete signal chain capability, including RF, microwave and millimeter wave. You can choose from a broad selection of discrete components and integrated solutions, including comprehensive antenna to bits portfolio for applications DC to beyond 100 GHz. ADI offers the widest array of technologies, including CMOS, SiGe, BiCMOS, SOI, GaAs and GaN. Discover the difference Analog Devices can make for your RF & Microwave designs in Communications, Test & Measurement Instrumentation, Industrial, and Aerospace and Defense.

Attenuators

Analog Devices’ attenuators are available in a broad range of architectures and form factors, giving designers the flexibility to select a part best aligns with their system requirements. The parts are designed for the lowest insertion loss and best accuracy in the specified frequency range. Attenuators are manufactured in GaAs and Silicon (SOI) processes which make them versatile in performance and highly reliable in operation for a wide range of applications in instrumentation, communications, military and aerospace markets.

Sub-subcategories

Fixed Attenuators

Digital Step Attenuators

Voltage Variable Attenuators

Beamformers, Phase Shifters, and Vector Modulators

ADI's portfolio of beamformers, analog phase shifters, digital phase shifters, and vector modulators provide a controllable phase shift that is needed for several applications in wireless infrastructure, test equipment, fiber optics, and military.

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Beamformers

Analog Phase Shifters

Digital Phase Shifters

Vector Modulators

Communications Analog Front Ends

Analog Devices communications analog front end (AFE) products are components optimized to take advantage of smart partitioning by integrating amplifiers, filters, receive ADCs, and/or transmit path data conversions (DACs). In some cases, they also integrate auxiliary data converters and other support functions. These products provide a highly integrated solution for various applications, including communications infrastructure, broadband wireless, home networking, cable modems, and set-top boxes.

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High Speed Communications AFEs

IF/RF Receivers

Mixed-Signal Front Ends (MxFE)

Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS)

Analog Devices’ world-leading direct digital synthesis ICs incorporate features such as on-board comparators, RAM, PLLs, mixers, and registers. ADI direct digital synthesis products provide fast acquisition, highly accurate PSK and FSK modulation or high precision tuning resolution, among other benefits. They are an ideal synthesizer solution in applications where precise or agile frequency and phase control is required, such as systems for communications, test equipment, and radar.

Frequency Dividers, Multipliers, and Detectors

ADI's frequency dividers, frequency multipliers, and frequency detectors offer high performance, ultralow phase noise and fast frequency lock time options for frequency muliplication, division and detection to meet the demands of modern technology. Using these parts, designers can now economically design high frequency and low phase noise applications.

Sub-subcategories

Frequency Multipliers

Phase Frequency Detectors

Frequency Dividers, Prescalers, and Counters

I/Q Modulators and Demodulators

Analog Devices offers broadband and narrowband IQ modulators and IQ demodulators with excellent dynamic range, suitable for zero IF (ZIF) designs. ADI's IQ modulators and demodulators are commonly used for direct downconversion designs for point to point radio designs, test and measurement instrumentation applications.

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I/Q Demodulators with Integrated LO

I/Q Modulators with Integrated LO

I/Q Demodulators

I/Q Modulators

Phase Locked Loop (PLL) Synthesizer & Translation Loop

ADI’s industry leading phase locked loop (PLL) synthesizer family features a wide variety of high performance, low jitter clock generation and distribution devices. The extensive, ever growing phase locked loop family now includes over 100 products, optimized for high data rate, low jitter clocking applications. The portfolio features PLLs, PLL/VCOs, and distribution chips, designed for clocking applications which require synchronization, clock distribution, and phase noise performance. Analog Devices has over 25 years of experience in design and test of industry leading phase locked loop integrated circuit products. With the industry's widest portfolio of PLL products, we can cover virtually all your PLL needs. Analog Devices’ fully integrated and ready to use translation loop (also known as an offset loop) System in Package (SiP) are used for frequency synthesis in highly jitter sensitive applications, and reduce board space and complexity compared to traditional discrete translation loop solutions designed on a PCB. Time to market is significantly reduced by taking advantage of this highly integrated solution with in-package circuitry and enhanced isolation that attenuate spurious components. Analog Devices’ translation loop solutions provide a frequency synthesis solution for engineers designing highly competitive systems.

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Translation Loops

Phase Locked Loop with Integrated VCO

Fractional-N PLL

Integer-N PLL

Quadrature Digital Up Converters (QDUC)

Analog Devices digital up/downconverters serve as the frequency translator and digital filter between data converters and DSP blocks. These products enable highly programmable and configurable receive and transmit signal chains, allowing multichannel, multicarrier radio platforms in 3G wireless base stations. They also meet the digital data conversion requirements for many other communications applications

RF Amplifiers

Analog Devices RF amplifiers are designed using the company’s leading amplifier and RF IC expertise that meet the challenge of your next design. Our RF Amplifiers range from Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) to high power amplifiers including GaN technology spanning from kHz to ~100GHz. There are a variety of products optimized for bandwidth, efficiency, power, linearity, low noise, low phase noise, etc. to meet the most challenging performance requirements. These RF amplifiers are often used in Communications, Instrumentation, Space, and Defense applications but also enjoy a broad range of end markets.

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Low Phase Noise Amplifiers

RF Front-End ICs

Gain Blocks

Low Noise Amplifiers

Power Amplifiers

Wideband Distributed Amplifiers

Fully Differential Amplifiers

RF Amplifiers Bias Controllers

Driver Amplifiers

RF Connectorized Modules, System In Package, and Instrumentation

ADI’s RF and microwave ICs are available in module form, including connectorized RF amplifiers, signal generators, and mixers. ADI offers a variety of RF modules for communication, test & measurement instrumentation, and aerospace & defense markets.

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Signal Generators

Block Upconverter Modules

DRO/VCO Modules

Attenuator Modules

RF Frequency Divider, Multiplier, and Detector Modules

RF Switch Modules

SDLVA Modules

Mixer Modules

Phase Shifter Modules

RF Amplifier Modules

Frequency Converter SIP

RF Integrated Transmitters, Receivers, and Transceivers

Analog Devices RF Integrated Transmitters, Receivers, and Transceivers offer a complete, high performance RF and mixed-signal system on a chip. These highly integrated designs greatly simplify the system design, shorten time to market, reduce BOM cost, and provide best-in-class performance, particularly for demanding short range wireless systems, UMTS, LTE, and 3G/4G wireless and for point-to-point backhaul radios. Our integrated solutions are further complemented with range of design and evaluation tools, to help with the design process.

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RF Integrated Transmitters

Radar Transceivers

RF Integrated Transceivers

RF Integrated Receivers

RF Mixers

ADI offers industry's broadest selection of wideband RF mixers, microwave mixers and millimeter wave mixers. By utilizing innovative new high frequency design and packaging techniques and process technologies, ADI offers a complete portfolio of discrete as well as integrated, wideband and high frequency solutions for up to 90GHz. With ADI's RF mixer portfolio designers can be assured to find a mixer that best fits their performance, price and packaging requirements.

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I/Q and Image Reject Mixers

I/Q Downconverters/Receivers

I/Q Upconverters/Transmitters

Sub-Harmonic-Mixers

Single, Double, and Triple Balanced Mixers

RF Mixers with Integrated LO

RF Power Detectors

Analog Devices’ RF Power Detectors are a broad portfolio of Logarithmic Amplifiers, TruPwr™ RMS Detectors, Peak/Envelope Detectors and Successive Detection Log Video Amplifiers (SDLVAs). With detection ranges up to 100 dB, our RF power detectors are used in applications including Transmit/Receive Power Measurement, Input Protection, Return Loss Measurement, RF Pulse Detection, Radar, Electronic Warfare and Precise RF Power Measurement in Test and Measurement, Materials Analysis and HealthCare.

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RMS Detectors

Envelope Detectors

SDLVA

Vector Power Measurement

Logarithmic RMS Detectors

Logarithmic Detectors

RF Predistortion Ics

Analog Devices’ RF power linearizer (RFPAL) devices feature a programmable analog signal processing architecture that effectively combines digital programmability with the simplicity, small size, and low power consumption of analog circuit design. The benefit provided by this architecture is a predistortion linearization solution with very low power consumption, wide bandwidth performance, and a compact system footprint. These products have achieved broad acceptance in the cellular infrastructure and microwave point-to-point markets. Wide field deployment has proven these RFPAL devices to be robust solutions capable of dramatically increasing system efficiency and reducing costs in existing applications. They are now also enabling novel high performance, cost sensitive, and very compact 4G cellular small cell designs used in heterogeneous network deployments.

RF Switches

ADI offers a wide range of high performance RF switches that are ideal for instrumentation, communications, military and aerospace applications. Manufactured in GaAs and Silicon (SOI) processes, RF switches feature higher power handling, better linearity and wider frequency band of operation compared to their CMOS counterparts. ADI’s new Silicon (SOI) RF switches offer unmatched performance in compact SMT form, which attains superior insertion loss, improved isolation, wider bandwidth and faster switching/settling times than any other solution.

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RF Front-End ICs

SPDT T/R

Bypass, Diversity, Matrix, and Transfer Switches

SPST, SPDT, SP3T, SP4T, SP5T, SP6T, SP8T

Timing IC and Clock IC

Analog Devices offers innovative clock IC and timing IC solutions designed to improve system performance, enable new architectures, and lower development and manufacturing costs. Products feature low jitter and low phase noise for clock cleanup, synchronization, generation, delay, and distribution. The Analog Devices clock IC portfolio is one of the most extensive in the industry, and has the most advanced features available to support low jitter, distribution and synchronization.

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Clock Generation and Distribution

Clock and Data Recovery/Retiming

Tunable Filters

Analog Devices family of tunable filters includes programmable VGA, low-pass harmonic, band-pass, and band-reject portfolios to suit a large range of applications. Our devices offer an ideal filtering solution for communications, instrumentation, defense, medical, and other industries, with a flexible and robust feature set to meet the stringent demands of multiple designs.

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Digital Tunable Filters

Analog Band Pass Tunable Filters

Baseband Programmable VGA-Filters

Analog Low-Pass Tunable Filters

Variable Gain Amplifiers (VGA)

Variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) are used in a variety of remote sensing and communications equipment. Variable gain amplifiers deliver unmatched performance for signal chains that require high dynamic range. Applications ranging from ultrasound, radar, LIDAR, wireless communications, and speech analysis have utilized VGAs to deliver industry leading performance.

Sub-subcategories

Baseband Programmable VGA-Filters

Analog Control Variable Gain Amplifiers (VGAs)

Digital Control VGAs

Programmable Gain Amplifiers

Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO)

ADI offers a broad portfolio of Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO) with excellent phase noise performance, options for wideband, and multiple choices including VCOs with output drivers and VCOs with single output to meet small size and low power requirements. These VCOs are used in a range of applications in the communications, military, industrial and healthcare markets.

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VCO Buffers and Splitters

VCOs with Single Output

VCOs with Output Dividers

Wideband VCO

Wireless Sensor Networks

Analog Devices SmartMesh^® wireless products are embedded chips and precertified PCB modules complete with fully developed, field-proven, intelligent wireless mesh networking software. SmartMesh wireless sensor networks (WSN) deliver unmatched data reliability (>99.999%) over ultra low power, secure wireless communications, which enables sensors to be placed anywhere in tough Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) environments. Our products are used by over 76,000 customer networks in over 120 countries.

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SmartMesh IP

SmartMesh WirelessHART

ADALM-PLUTO: Fast SDR design and verification

The ADALM-PLUTO is a complete open reference design for SDR that helps you quickly verify your ADI RF product-based designs and get them to production faster. Schematics, HDL, firmware, embedded Linux, drivers, and host drivers for ADI’s transceiver products are all included, while the MathWorks Communications Toolbox™ Hardware Support Package allows the ADALM-PLUTO SDR to talk to MATLAB and Simulink. All this enables you to quickly prototype, verify, and test practical wireless systems with live RF signals anywhere between 325 MHz to 3.8 GHz to up 20 MHz of bandwidth.

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ADALM-PLUTO: Fast SDR design and verification

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RF and Microwave

Subcategories

Attenuators

Sub-subcategories

Beamformers, Phase Shifters, and Vector Modulators

Communications Analog Front Ends

Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS)

Frequency Dividers, Multipliers, and Detectors

I/Q Modulators and Demodulators

Phase Locked Loop (PLL) Synthesizer & Translation Loop

Quadrature Digital Up Converters (QDUC)

RF Amplifiers

RF Connectorized Modules, System In Package, and Instrumentation

RF Integrated Transmitters, Receivers, and Transceivers

RF Mixers

RF Power Detectors

RF Predistortion Ics

RF Switches

Timing IC and Clock IC

Tunable Filters

Variable Gain Amplifiers (VGA)

Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO)

Wireless Sensor Networks

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