interesting eval board

Jul 02, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 9 Replies

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Looks like a very thin board stuck to a machined block, with the edge-launch SMAs straddling both.



There's no provision for a main power supply, so they must expect a bias tee. And maybe a DC block on the input.


I see a bunch of pin headers for the power supply.

those are for gate control, power supply goes on the output,

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Am 02.07.21 um 16:54 schrieb snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com:

I can't find anything to decode this .webp. Even Gimp that claims it can handle/edit .webp complains for bad content.

The output power of that thing isn't bad, but an output bias tee and probably input C do not support the "from DC" assertion.

If you can live with a HMC451, I just got a board with a test structure from JLCpcb. Yes, FR4, but on the 2 mm from chip to SMA there won't happen much but a little bit of attenuation.

Turn around time starts to get interesting, less than a week from Gerber upload to postwoman ringing in smalltown, .de

Gerhard

lørdag den 3. juli 2021 kl. 00.50.58 UTC+2 skrev Gerhard Hoffmann:

here it just opens in firefox,

anyway, it this one

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dropbox is serving it with the wrong media type header, strip of the "?raw=1" and it opens in the wrapped preview page OK.

Gimp 2.10.24 on Fedora worked for me.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Get them wrong and pony up $350 for a new chip, or $750 for a new eval board.

We have pretty fancy sequencers and limiters and thermistors and stuff on our boards.

I have one of these on a board, with a 20 GHz MMIC as a preamp. Composite GBW is about 1 THz.

The definitive WEBP tools are here:

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You probably need to update your Gimp.

WEBP images can be lossy (ala JPG) or lossless (ala PNG) and both formats support transparency (JPG doesn't). They're supposed to be 25% smaller than equivalent PNG and JPG files.

Clifford Heath

Am 03.07.21 um 01:15 schrieb Jasen Betts:

Yes, that's it!

Gerhard

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