Title :
High Volume, Low Cost, MMIC Receiver Front End
Author :
Podell, Allen F. ; Nelson, William W.
Abstract :
Producing inexpensive MMIC receiver front ends in large quantities has focused attention on details of MMIC design and fabrication that are different from laboratory, or small volume production. This paper discusses design and testing tradeoffs and the performance of the resulting packaged MMIC.
Keywords :
Circuit testing; Costs; Coupling circuits; Diodes; FETs; MMICs; Noise figure; Packaging; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits
DOI :
10.1109/MCS.1986.1114479
