RF Mixers

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

In-phase quadrature (I/Q) mixers and image reject mixers (IRM) offer a robust frequency mixing solution for applications that require high image rejection or sideband suppression. These mixers can be used as an upconverter or downcoverter. I/Q or IRM mixers use two double-balanced mixers with a 90° hybrid. The inherent architecture of I/Q mixers eliminates the resulting product due to image frequency during downconversion and allows the selection of desired sideband during upconversion.

I/Q Downconverters/Receivers

In-phase quadrature (I/Q) downconverters integrate an image reject mixer, a low noise amplifier, a 90° hybrid, and an LO buffer amplifier in one package. These devices are used in receiver applications to downconvert radio frequency (RF) signals to the desired intermediate frequency (IF) while ensuring low noise and high image rejection performance.

I/Q Upconverters/Transmitters

In-phase quadrature (I/Q) upconverters integrate an I/Q mixer, RF amplifier, 90° hybrid, and an LO buffer in one package. These devices are used in transmitter applications to upconvert intermediate frequency (IF) to a desired radio frequency (RF) while reducing the need for filtering unwanted sideband.

RF Mixers with Integrated LO

Analog Devices RF mixers/multipliers include both active and passive, as well as broadband and narrowband, products. These devices promise high performance and flexibility to help designers achieve their target specifications, reduce design time, and optimize costs. With leading specifications including speed, dynamic range, noise figure under blocking, SFDR, and ESD performance, ADI RF mixers and multipliers help to raise the bar within RF systems.

Single, Double, and Triple Balanced Mixers

Single, double or triple balanced mixers are the fundamental mixer architecture ranges, which means that all ports in the mixer utilize a single-ended to differential balun structure to reduce undesired signals. Analog Devices’ fundamental mixer portfolio’s frequency coverage from sub MHz to 90 GHz can offer a discrete mixer solution in either packaged or die form to meet the current market’s end application requirements. Our mixer portfolio offers simple implementation and cost-effective design choices. Options include local oscillator (LO) buffer amplifiers or intermediate frequency (IF) amplifiers to further meet customer-specific design objectives.

Sub-Harmonic Mixers

Subharmonic mixers are composed of a passive mixer with a subharmonically pumped (×2) local oscillator. These mixers allow designers to use low LO frequency, which eases the need to generate a high frequency LO signal. For high frequency application design, Analog Devices subharmonic mixers offer a simpler alternative to traditional mixers with no LO multiplier.

Analog Design Tool: ADIsimRF™

ADIsimRF is an easy-to-use RF signal chain calculator. It calculates Cascaded Gain, Noise Figure, IP3, P1dB and Power Consumption. The number of stages can be varied up to a maximum of 20. Stages can be easily inserted, removed or temporarily muted.

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Analog Design Tool: ADIsimRF™

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RF Mixers