X-Microwave and Peregrine Semiconductor have announced a collaboration and the addition of Peregrine’s RF products to X-Microwave’s online simulation tool and hardware prototyping system. Their building-block system simplifies the modular design process and enables RF engineers to easily simulate and prototype RF and microwave circuits. To kick off this relationship, 16 Peregrine products are being added to their system as drop-in X-MWblock components.
At the heart of their system is an X-MWblock portfolio of hundreds of physically compatible, drop-in or drop-on components. These components are highly characterized and modeled with X-Parameters and S-Parameters at the system block level. To create a modular design, they provides a free, non-linear online simulation tool that leverages Keysight’s Genesys Spectrasys engine. After simulation, X-MWblock drop-in components can be used to prototype systems through their innovative prototype station for testing, aligning and configuring integrated microwave assemblies up to 50 GHz. The same X-MWblock components can also be moved from the prototype station directly to machined housings for production hardware, eliminating the need for custom layouts.
From concept to final production hardware, X-Microwave streamlines the complete design process. The Peregrine products now available in the X-Microwave system include RF switches, digital step attenuators, tuning control switches, power limiters and monolithic phase and amplitude controllers. These products have a prominent link on their Peregrine webpage that directs users to the product’s X-MWblock webpage.
