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Frequency Mixers, Converters, Doublers,
Multipliers, Modulators & Transceivers
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Frequency mixers, converters, multipliers, modulators & transceivers are all lumped together on this page since they all involve some sort of frequency translation, either up or down. Often, the terms can be interchanged. This way no matter what you have come in search of, it should be listed here.


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Agile Microwave Technology | 516-931-1760 | Hicksville, NY

RF amplifiers, limiters, switches, and multipliers. Our goal is to cut product cost by more than 50% by keeping our overhead low, by staying small and focusing on innovative designs which are inspired by the commercial wireless market. Our goal is to provide same or better performance, size and quality at a much lower cost through better engineering and outsourcing to U.S. based contract manufacturers.

Analog Devices | 800-262-5643 | Norwood, MA

Op amps, switches, A/D, D/A, S&H, AD8347 direct conversion RFIC (800 MHz to 2.7 GHz), ADIsimPLL synthesizer circuit simulation software.

Anaren | 800-544-2414 | East Syracuse, NY

Couplers, power dividers, quads, splitter/combiner networks, baluns, vector modulators, mixers, resistors, terminations, attenuators, circulators, isolators, delay lines, switches, ceramic circuit-board and component solutions.

Atek Midas | +90 212 483 71 67 | Istanbul, Turkey

Integrated circuit (RFIC/MMIC) attenuators, power and low noise amplifiers, mixers, power dividers, filters, RF front ends.

California Eastern Laboratories | 800-390-3232 | Santa Clara, CA

Small signal bipolars, GaAs FETs, power discrete devices, RFICs, optocouplers, solid state relays, CATV GaAs hybrids, fiber optic components, up/down converter IC's.

Cernex | 408-541-9226 | Sunnyvale, CA

Amplifiers, antennas, couplers, isolators, circulators, filters, diplexers, oscillators, noise sources, switches, phase shifters, transition & adapters, mixers, waveguide products, attenuators, terminations, detectors, subsystems.

Codan Limited | 08 8305 0311 | Newton, South Australia, Australia

Designs and builds innovative communications equipment for high frequency (HF) radio, satellite and digital microwave radio applications.

Crane Aerospace & Electronics - Microwave Solutions | West Caldwell, NJ 973-575-1300

RF, IF and millimeter-wave components, subsystems and systems for commercial aviation, defense, and space. Integrated assemblies include beamformers, oscillators, frequency converters and switch matrix systems, and amplifiers. Microwave circuit board substrates, non-magnetic capacitors. Space qualified circulators, isolators, mixers, couplers, power dividers, and much more.

Custom MMIC (now QORVO)| 978-467-4290 | Westford, MA

Fabless RF and microwave MMIC designer of microwave circuits to solve various size, weight, performance, and cost (SWaP-C) challenges throughout the microwave signal chain. Off-the-shelf MMICs including amplifiers, mixers, attenuators, phase shifters, and switches. Over 25 years combined experience in MMIC chips for millimeter wave, point-to-point radio, VSAT, WLAN, and cellular systems as well as general microwave applications.

Electromagnetic Technologies Industries (ETI) | 973-394-1719 | Boonton, NJ

Unique technological breakthroughs in defense and telecommunications systems in antenna beam former networks and MMICs as well as power dividers, active & passive phase shifters, directional couplers, switching & distributed networks, mixer & modulating devices, filters & multiplexers and other components.

Endwave | 888-363-4283 | Sunnyvale, CA

Amplifiers, up/down converters, multipliers, oscillators, integrated transceivers, frequency synthesizers, outdoor units (ODUs).

everything RF | 312-436-0084

Find RF & microwave components, equipment and services - 216,401 products from over 1143 manufacturers listed in 275 categories. Download hundreds of vendor white papers. Test equipment amplifiers, antennas, attenuators, bias-Ts, & terminations, RF connectors & adapters, RF filters, power combiners, couplers, & dividers, RF switches, waveguide, Bluetooth & RFID.

Exodus Advanced Communications | 702-534-6564 | Las Vegas, NV

Exodus is a continually innovating manufacturer offers RF & Microwave power amplifiers (and LNA's) ranging from 10 kHz to 51 GHz. Low, medium and high power modules and systems are available for CW & pulse broadband applications as well as multi-octave and narrow-band. Extremely rugged MIL-Custom designs for small and large volume programs. A full range of EMC/EMI amplifiers as well as extensive experience in military jamming, communications,5G specific products, radar and various outdoor/commercial projects. They offer compact designs and form-fit-function replacements for program specific requirements.

GreenPeak Technologies | +31 30 262 1157 | The Netherlands | +1 512 464 1188 | USA

A fabless semiconductor, module and software company offering green ultra low power wireless communication technology for sense and control applications. GreenPeak's mesh networks are enabled by the use of energy harvesting devices while not compromising in performance like range, data rate or reliability. GreenPeak driven networks powered by energy harvesting bring true maintenance-free operation.

G.T. Microwave | 973-361-5700 | Randolph, NJ

Attenuators, switches, phase shifters, vector, pulse, BPSK, QPSK modulators, power dividers, combiners, directional couplers & detectors, negative, positive gain equalizers, low, high & bandpass filters, 90° & 180° quadrature hybrids, engineering consulting services, frequency discriminators, oscillators, RF subsystems.

Herley | 717-735-8117 | Lancaster, PA

Attenuators, modulators, power dividers, oscillators, synthesizers, phase shifters, switches.

Heuermann HF-Technik GmbH | +49 2402/9749764 | Stolberg, Germany

RF measurement technique: Non-linear S-parameter measurements, error-bar calculation for S-parameters, multi-port calibration without thru. RF-Lap-Timing for: Cars, bikes, ships, model planes. Generators: comb, pattern, patent techniques for low-noise. Transceiver: Patented dual-mode-radio, high security, low power, wireless and wired, UWB, 60 GHz, military. Microwave Security: Microwave gates and scanner.

High Sierra Microwave | 530-644-3393 | Camino, CA

Designs and builds PLL signal sources, up/down converters, low noise amplifiers, and comb marker generators (weak signal sources). Also provides RF/microwave test/measurement services, such as phase noise measurements to 40 GHz.

Hittite Microwave Corp | 978-250-3343 | Chelmsford, MA

Amplifiers, attenuators, frequency multipliers, mixers, modulators, prescalers, switches, VCO's.

HXI | 978-772-7774 | Harvard, MA

A subsidiary of Renaissance Electronics, is a leading supplier of millimeter-wave products including LNAs, power amplifiers, mixers, detectors, oscillators, switches, transmitters, receivers and transceivers for radars, communications systems and sensors. Digital radios, mm-wave, E-band, and isolators. Standard components and custom-engineered products at the sub system level in the 18 to 110 GHz range. Also manufacture complete 60 GHz, E-band products, digital radios and mm-wave products for enterprise and back-haul applications.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) | 800-223-1366 | San Jose, CA

System-level solutions that optimize applications with products in RF, timing, wireless power transfer, serial switching, interfaces and sensing solutions are among the company's broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. These products are used for development in areas such as 4G infrastructure, network communications, cloud datacenters and power management for computing and mobile devices.

Linwave Technology Ltd | +44 1522 681811 | Lincoln, UK

RF and microwave design and manufacturing with specialist knowledge in module and sub-system design. Our experience encompasses the consumer, industrial, automotive and defense market sectors. SATCOM BUC, SSPA, Military microwave sub modules.

M/A-COM (now Cobham) | 800-366-2266 | Lowell, MA

Developer and high-volume manufacturer of RF, microwave and millimeter wave semiconductors, components and technologies including diodes, semiconductors, transistors, passives, blocks, substrates.

Magnum Microwave (now API Technologies) | 888-553-7531 | Palm Bay, FL

Mixers to 28 GHz. Hundreds of datasheets to choose from with customizations requested. Industry standard packages, aggressive lead times and great customer service.

Marki Microwave | 408-778-4200 | Morgan Hill, CA

Amplifiers, converters, couplers, DC blocks, dividers, doublers, fiber-optic devices, mixers, waveguide.

Merrimac Industries (now Crane Aerospace & Electronics) | 973-575-1300 | West Caldwell, NJ

Power dividers/combiners, mixers, couplers, attenuators, phase shifters.

Mica Microwave | 209-825-3977 | Manteca, CA

Circulators, isolators, mixers, equalizers, phase shifters.

Microwave Products and Technology (MPT) | 714-316-7300 | Fullerton CA

Core capabilities include phased array components and subsystem for communication and radar. SiGe, GaN, and GaAs RF circuit design and packaging. Also information security products and managed information security services.

Mini-Circuits | 718-934-4500 | Brooklyn, NY

Attenuators, baluns, bias tee, cables (test quality), chokes, DC blocks, mixers, amplifiers, filters, line stretchers, modulators, oscillators, power combiners / couplers / splitters, switches, terminations, transformers. Surface mount, connectorized. Application (app) notes.

Miteq | 631-436-7400 | Hauppauge, NY

Amplifiers, mixers, frequency multipliers, passive power components, solid-state switches, attenuators, power dividers, RF and IF signal processing components, oscillators, frequency synthesizers, integrated multifunction assemblies, fiber optic products, up/downconverters, test translators, IF/video equalizers, redundancy switchover units, video modulators and modems.

Narda - an L-3 Communications Company

Filters, isolators, power combiners, couplers, RF mechanical switches and PIN diode switches.

Norden Millimeter | 530-642-9123 | Placerville, CA

Microwave & Millimeter wave components from 500 MHz to 110 GHz, amplifiers, frequency multipliers, up/down converters, filters, oscillators, integrated assemblies.

Optical Zonu Corporation | 818 780 9701 | Los Angeles, CA

RF over Fiber products utilized in systems providing wireless coverage enhancement for in-building distribution of GSM, PCS, CDMA, WCDMA, 3G, DVB-T, WIFA mobile systems, tunnels, mines, RF systems, fiber fed repeaters, BTS "hotels" and distributed antenna systems. Defense applications include remote antennas, phase array radars, spectrum monitoring and other applications requiring low loss and EMI immunity benefits of fiber optics. GPS over fiber, distributed timing, delay lines, L-, S-, C-Band and Satcom fiber links plus Wi-Max and 4G LTE.

Peregrine Semiconductor | 858-731-9400 | San Diego, CA

Fabless provider of RFICs leveraging the company's patented UltraCMOS® technology, an advanced form of SOI that enables the design, manufacture and integration of multiple RF, analog and digital functions onto a single chip.

Planar Monolithics Industries | 301-662-5019 | Frederick, MD

PMI designs, develops, manufactures, tests, and markets hybrid RF/microwave and monolithic integrated circuits (MIC/MMIC) and components hybrid MIC/MMIC supercomponents and subsystems.

Q-Bit (now API Technologies) | 888-553-7531 | Palm Bay, FL

Amplifiers, mixers and VCOs. 750 datasheets to choose from with customizations requested. Industry standard packages, aggressive lead times and great customer service.

QORVO | 833-641-3810 | Greensboro, NC

RFICs and packaged modules used in cellular networks and mobile phones, for wireless connectivity such as wireless LAN, GPS and Bluetooth, cable modems and cable TV infrastructure, applications including military radar. GaAs- and GaN-based power amplifiers, filters, switches, and FEMs used in smartphones, WiFi wireless infrastructure equipment.

Quantum Microwave | 857-499-0071 | Cohasset, MA

Millimeter-wave waveguide components including attenuators, detectors, diplexers, power amplifiers, mixers, isolators & circulator, multipliers, antennas, switches, probe adapters, terminations, and filters. Waveguide sections include straight, bends, twists, transitions, and adapters. Patented "GuideLock" connector eliminates screws. Cryogenic components available. Designed and manufactured at their Massachusetts facility.

QORVO (was RFMD) | 336-664-1233 | Greensboro, NC

Designer & manufacturer of RF components serving existing and emerging wireless and wireline markets, offering a wide range of innovative RF solutions for transmitter, receiver and transceiver designs including amplifiers, transistors, mixers, modulators, VCOs, PLLs, demodulators, stripline couplers, transformers.

QuinStar Technology | 310-320-1111 | Torrance, CA

Designs and manufactures millimeter-wave products for communication, scientific, and test applications including millimeter-wave products, microelectronic assembly, rapid prototyping, and mass customization. Amplifiers, receivers, oscillators, switches, attenuators, circulators & isolators, filters, waveguide, antennas, and phase shifters, and transceiver & radar subsystems.

Remec Broadband Wireless | 858-312-6900 | San Diego, CA

Develops and manufactures RF/microwave components and subsystems for wireless telecommunications markets including mobile cellular, fixed wireless access such as WiMax, backbone transmission systems and private networks.

RFDataTech | +44 (0)1322 614313 | UK

Design and manufacture of FCC & ETSI compliant radio modems, data radios, paging radios, RF modules & satellite modems. Provision of contract manufacturing services for pcb assemblies.

RFHIC Corporation USA | 919-342-7099 | Cary, NC

CATV hybrid line amplifiers, broadcasting amplifiers, FTTH amplifiers, digital TV application, MMIC (GaN, GaAs), high power transistors (GaN), low noise, wideband, & radar pallet amplifiers, PLLs, mixers, directional couplers.

RFMD (now QORVO) | 833-641-3810 | Greensboro, NC

RFICs and packaged modules used in cellular networks and mobile phones, for wireless connectivity such as wireless LAN, GPS and Bluetooth, cable modems and cable TV infrastructure, applications including military radar. GaAs- and GaN-based power amplifiers, filters, switches, and FEMs used in smartphones, WiFi wireless infrastructure equipment.

Sage Labs (Filtronic) (now API Technologies) | 508-653 0844 | Natick, MA

Power dividers, couplers, hybrids, filters, rotary joints, mixers, phase shifters.

Salisbury Engineering (now API Technologies) | 888-553-7531 | Delmar, DE

Custom integrated microwave assemblies, tuners, synthesizers, filters, reference oscillators, harmonic generators. Call to discuss with an engineer your microwave component or supercomponent needs.

Sivers IMA AB | +46-8-7036800 | Kista, Sweden

VCOs, PLLs & Synthesizers, FMCW radar sensor front ends, millimeter wave transceiver products.

Sirenza Microdevices (now RFMD now QORVO) | 336-664-1233 | Greensboro, NC

Designer & manufacturer of RF components serving existing and emerging wireless and wireline markets, offering a wide range of innovative RF solutions for transmitter, receiver and transceiver designs including amplifiers, transistors, mixers, modulators, VCOs, PLLs, demodulators, stripline couplers, transformers.

Synergy Microwave | 973-881-8800 | Paterson, NJ

Attenuators, switches, couplers, DC block, demodulators, filters, frequency synthesizers, SAW oscillators, mixers, phase shifters, power dividers, transformers, VCOs, test fixtures.

thinkRF | +1.613.369.5104 | Kanata, ON, Canada

Software-defined spectrum analysis platforms that monitor, detect and analyze complex waveforms. Compact and networkable platform that you can deploy remotely without a local PC and monitor in more locations.

TLC Precision Wafer Technology | 612-341-2795 | Minneapolis, MN

20 to 100 GHz MMICs!!! TLC is an established leader in advanced commercial and military MMW MMIC R&D and production products. MMW products include MMIC oscillators (VCO, DRO, ILO), multipliers, multi-function MMICs, mixers, phase shifters/modulators, and amplifier MMICs. TLC also has new transceiver MMICs from 25 to 100 GHz. Packaging and modules available upon request.

Trak Microwave | 888-283-8444 | Tampa, FL

Attenuators, circulators, isolators, comb generators, control devices, couplers, delay line filters, GPS time & frequency, hybrids, IQ mod & demod, mixers, multipliers, oscillators, phase shifters, splitters & combiners, synthesizers, transformers.

Triad RF Systems | 732-310-9918 | East Brunswick, NJ

Your source for RF front ends, transceivers and amplifier systems that just plain work! Solutions for integrating high performance HPAs into sophisticated RF subsystems and systems without sacrificing efficiency and linearity.

TriQuint Semiconductor | 503-615-9000 | Hillsboro, OR

Wireless, telecom and millimeter amplifiers, GaAs integrated circuits and transistors. SAW filters.

Virginia Diodes | 434-297-3257 | Charlottesville, VA

GaAs Schottky diodes, frequency multipliers, mixers, direct detectors, mesh filters.

VivaTech | +1-818-547-5036

System front-ends, mm-wave test equipment, source modules, amplifiers, active multipliers, mixers, frequency converters, frequency extension modules, radiometer front-ends, waveguide isolators, waveguide attenuators, passive and active waveguide components and primary noise standards.

Windfreak Technologies | 727-490-8812 | Holiday, FL

Designs, manufactures, tests and sells high value USB powered and controlled RF signal generators, synthesizers, power detectors, mixers, Upconverters and downconverters.

WJ Communication Watkins-Johnson (now TriQuint Semiconductornow QORVO) | 503-615-9000 | Hillsboro, OR

Wireless, telecom and millimeter amplifiers, GaAs integrated circuits and transistors. SAW filters.

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