RF & Microwave

RF & 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 ADI can make for your RF and microwave designs in communications, test and measurement instrumentation, industrial, and ADEF.

Analog RF Receivers & Transmitters

Analog Devices’ portfolio of analog RF receivers and transmitters features in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) downconverters, integrating an image-reject mixer, low noise amplifier, 90° hybrid, and LO buffer amplifier into a compact, high performance solution. Designed for advanced receiver architectures, these integrated downconverters deliver exceptional noise performance and superior image rejection, enabling efficient and reliable RF-to-IF signal translation.

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Analog Receivers

Analog Tranmitters

Analog Transceivers

Beamformers & Vector Modulators

Analog Devices’ beamformers and vector modulators offer best-in-class performance with the highest levels of integration for optimum scalability and antenna array simplification. Our beamformers integrate multiple channels, and each has independent phase and amplitude control in its transmit and receive paths, allowing the RF and microwave front end to electronically steer the antenna beams for an optimum transmission aiming pattern. The high level of integration enables systems, whether they are for communications, radar, electronic warfare, or radio, to deliver higher levels of performance in a smaller size while reducing system costs. The beamformer IC integrates additional functionality such as digital control circuitry, power detectors, on-chip memory, power management blocks, and more for a complete antenna steering solution.

Frequency Dividers & Multipliers

Analog Devices’ frequency dividers and frequency multipliers offer high performance, ultralow phase noise, and fast frequency lock time options to meet the demands of modern systems. Using these devices, designers can economically design flexible solutions for high frequency and low phase noise applications.

Mixed-Signal Front Ends (MxFE)

Mixed-signal front-end (MxFE^®) products from Analog Devices offer a smart integration of RF analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), RF digital-to-analog converters (DACs), on-chip digital signal processing, and clock/PLL for multichip synchronization. This allows for the elimination of discrete data converters and traditional RF front-end components to reduce size, weight, power, and cost. Integrated digital signal processing supports the transition to software-defined radio platforms, creating a highly configurable, common hardware/software platform that can be used in multiple applications across a broad array of end markets.

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Mixed Signal Transceivers

Mixed Signal Transmitters

Mixed Signal Receivers

Modulators & Demodulators

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

Oscillators

Analog Devices offers a broad portfolio of oscillators ranging from voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) with excellent phase noise performance, wideband options, and multiple output choices, to silicon oscillators with programmable frequencies via pin-strapping, resistor connections, or serial interfaces (SPI or I2C). Silicon oscillators are solid-state clocks that are well-suited for general purposes, such as PGAs, ASICs, and microprocessors while also being ideal for switching regulator clocking as they provide synchronization and EMI reduction (via spread spectrum).

Phase Shifters

Analog Devices’ analog and digital phase shifters change the phase of RF, microwave, or millimeter wave signals while providing no amplitude change. They are used in a variety of applications including phased array antenna, amplitude and phase modulation, signal cancellation, and related applications.

Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Synthesizers

Analog Devices’ 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. ADI 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.

RF ADCs

Radio frequency analog-to-digital converters (RF ADCs) are special types of ADCs designed to convert RF signals, which are typically high frequency analog signals, into a digital format. This is crucial in various applications like radar, electronic warfare, satellite communications, instrumentation and measurement, industrial automation and robotics, digital healthcare, data centers, and optical receivers, where capturing and processing RF signals is essential. Analog Devices offers a broad portfolio of RF ADCs with the industry's best performance, power, and size to offer SWaP-C efficient solutions to our customers.

RF Amplifiers

Analog Devices’ RF amplifiers are designed using our leading amplifier and RF IC expertise that meet the challenge of your next design. ADI's RF amplifiers range from low noise amplifiers (LNAs) to high power amplifiers including GaN technology spanning from kHz to ~100 GHz. 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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RF Gain Blocks

RF Low Noise Amplifiers

RF Power Amplifiers

RF Differential Amplifiers

RF Amplifier-Based Front Ends

RF VGAs

RF Attenuators

Analog Devices’ RF attenuators are available in a broad range of architectures and form factors, giving designers the flexibility to select a part that best aligns with their system requirements. The parts are designed for the lowest insertion loss and best accuracy in the specified frequency range. RF 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.

RF DACs

Radio frequency digital-to-analog converters (RF DACs) are high speed DACs designed to convert digital signals into analog signals directly at radio frequencies, without the need for an intermediate analog modulation stage. This direct conversion offers several advantages, including higher performance, reduced complexity, and increased efficiency, especially in applications like software-defined radios (SDRs) and multiband transmitters, suitable for aerospace and defense, instrumentation and measurement, industrial automation and robotics, digital healthcare, data centers, satellite communications, commercial aviation, and space markets. Analog Devices offers a broad portfolio of RF DACs with the industry's best performance, power, and size to offer SWaP-C efficient solutions to our customers.

RF Mixers

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

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.

RF Switches

Analog Devices offers a wide range of high performance radio frequency (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.

RF Transmitters

Analog Devices’ RF integrated transmitters offer a complete, high performance RF and mixed-signal system on chip. These highly integrated designs greatly simplify the system design, shorten time to market, reduce bill of materials (BOM) cost, and provide best-in-class performance, particularly for demanding short range wireless systems, ISM, UMTS, LTE, and 3G/4G/5G 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.

Software Defined Radio

Analog Devices’ RadioVerse® family features agile, system-on-chip transceivers that simplify the development of high performance software-defined radios (SDRs) by integrating data converters, RF/microwave components, power management, and advanced software tools. These solutions accelerate prototyping and reduce time to market while supporting both integrated and discrete RF architectures. With advanced frequency hopping capabilities, RadioVerse transceivers meet the demanding needs of modern SDR applications.

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.

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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RF & Microwave

Subcategories

Analog RF Receivers & Transmitters

Sub-subcategories

Beamformers & Vector Modulators

Frequency Dividers & Multipliers

Mixed-Signal Front Ends (MxFE)

Sub-subcategories

Modulators & Demodulators

Oscillators

Phase Shifters

Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Synthesizers

RF ADCs

RF Amplifiers

Sub-subcategories

RF Attenuators

RF DACs

RF Mixers

RF Power Detectors

RF Switches

RF Transmitters

Software Defined Radio

Tunable Filters

ISM-RF Baseband Calculator

ISM-RF Baseband Calculator

Calculating Transmitted Power Using Return Loss

Calculating Transmitted Power Using Return Loss

ISM-RF Crystal Calculator

ISM-RF Crystal Calculator

Calculating Equivalent Parallel Impedance

Calculating Equivalent Parallel Impedance

Power Conversion Table (RF Power Conversion)

Power Conversion Table (RF Power Conversion)

Wireless Cascaded Gain and Noise Figure

Wireless Cascaded Gain and Noise Figure

ADALM-PLUTO: Fast SDR design and verification

ADALM-PLUTO: Fast SDR design and verification