RF & MICROWAVE DEVICES COMPONENTS SUBSYSTEMS

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1 RF & MICROWAVE DEVICES COMPONENTS SUBSYSTEMS

2 S U B S Y S T E M S C O M P O N E N T S D E V I C E S MCE Technologies, Inc. is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of microwave and RF devices, components and subsystems for the wireless/mobile, fixed broadband, defense, and test and measurement industries.

3 COMPANY BACKGROUND A COMMITMENT TO CUSTOMERS MCE Technologies is among the wireless industry s most MCE is dedicated to providing world-class customer complete suppliers of microwave and RF products into service and the highest quality products available in the cellular/pcs infrastructure applications, including GSM, industry. This is done by focusing on customer needs and TDMA, CDMA and WCDMA base stations, satellites, through the integration and coordination of internal broadband access, cable, WLL, test instrumentation and design capabilities, fully equipped and staffed manufactur- measurement, and defense electronic applications. Our ing locations, dedicated and skilled employees, a highly broad offering of standard products, innovative, custom- qualified network of suppliers, and a commitment to being engineered designs, and comprehensive resources enables the best and most complete supplier in the industry. MCE to support the most demanding high-performance, high-quality product needs of our worldwide customers. DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE Established in 1994, MCE Technologies consists of strategically aligned operations with locations throughout MCE Technologies worldwide design and manufacturing North America, Europe and Asia. As a global supplier of capabilities makes the company a reliable and expert microwave and RF products, MCE s advanced technologies, primary source of supply. Drawing upon a comprehensive broad capabilities, engineering expertise, manufacturing library of designs and applying innovative engineering facilities, and experience marketing products in a wide solutions into a wide range of market applications, MCE range of industry applications are aligned to serve our supports requirements ranging from standard catalog customer s requirements for cost-effective products that products to custom-engineered solutions. are delivered on time. MCE s seven business units and ten facility locations are fully staffed and equipped to support the research, design, manufacturing and test requirements of all products ranging from high volume semiconductor devices, to spacequalified components, to high package density custom subsystems. As a market-driven, engineering-based company, close alliances among each of MCE s business unit research, design and development staffs, a technical 1 MCE Technologies Corporate Headquarters advisory board consisting of scientists from the University of Michigan, and our marketing professionals ensure 2 Inmet implementation of technological developments and fast KDI Resistive Products KDI Integrated Products responses to our customer s emerging and future needs KDI Integrated Products EDC Weinschel Metelics MCE Technologies Mexico From base stations to broadband, avionics to instruments, subsystems to satellites whatever your application, MCE Technologies brings you wireless, RF, microwave and millimeter wave products that make a world of difference DML Microwave MCE Technologies Nanjing

4 WIRELESS MOBILE Focused on the mobile wireless infrastructure equipment markets, MCE is a successful and leading supplier to base station, power amplifier, and repeater manufacturers throughout the world. Our products are used in virtually every type of cellular/pcs technology including TDMA, CDMA, WCDMA, and CDMA2000 for applications within GSM, UMTS, GPRS, EDGE and a host of other industry standards. MCE s products are used in a wide range of system applications ranging from signal conditioning, switching, combining, filtering, and mixing, to multi-carrier power amplifier device and component building blocks, and linearization circuitry. Whether it is semiconductor devices, discrete or packaged components, or fully integrated subsystems, MCE offers "one stop" capabilities and the resources to address basic to highly complex wireless infrastructure system requirements. Internal control of all aspects of our design, manufacturing, and quality process, combined with MCE s long heritage, diverse experience, and core capabilities ensures that our product solutions are among the most advanced and cost-effective in the industry. TEST & MEASUREMENT Few companies in the microwave and RF industry have the experience and breadth of products offered for the test and measurement instrumentation and manufacturing test markets as MCE Technologies. Used to measure overall system performance, these products exhibit RF performance that regularly exceeds the equipment that they are employed to characterize. This additional and unique area of expertise sets MCE apart from suppliers that solely manufacture products for wireless infrastructure applications. MCE s test and measurement-grade devices and components are used in a broad array of applications. They include diodes used in test instruments for mixing, signal conversion, switching and detection; coaxial components, such as broadband resistive splitters and dividers, fixed attenuators and terminations, dc blocks and adapters used in R&D, quality assurance and manufacturing test; and edge-line, relay switched, GaAs and PIN switched attenuators used in signal generators and test analyzers. In addition, MCE offers standard and customdesigned multi-path / multi-channel, switching, combining, attenuation subsystems used to simulate 2G and 3G mobile network performance. FIXED & BROADBAND From space-qualified semiconductor and coaxial products, to power amplifiers used in WLL systems, MCE serves a diverse range of fixed wireless and broadband communications company requirements. Our device, component and subsystem expertise encompasses products for broadband and fixed access point-to-point, MMDS, LMDS and WLAN; cable access head-ends and modems; RF broadcasting; LEO, MEO and geosynchronous satellite platforms; and fiber optical networks. MCE products offered into these markets include dc blocks and bias tees to 50 GHz, clock driver circuits, GHz PIN diode switch matrices, multi-octave and high frequency coaxial and surface mounted components, cable head-end redundant switch matrices, multi-path attenuation test subsystems, space-qualified fixed attenuators, terminations and semiconductor devices, and a broad range of other standard and custom design components and subsystems. DEFENSE For nearly fifty years, MCE business units have been among the industry s leading suppliers of highly specialized devices, components and subsystems to defense electronics manufacturers and agencies. Today, MCE continues to provide a comprehensive offering of microwave and RF product expertise for applications including phased array radars, IFF systems, navigation systems, command, control and secure communications, EW, avionics, guidance and control systems, and other applications where product reliability and performance under extreme environmental conditions is of paramount importance. MCE products for defense markets includes PIN, Schottky, Tunnel and SRD/Varactors diodes in chip and beam lead configurations, diversity switches, T/R front ends, high power couplers and dividers, diode levelers, coaxial and rectangular equalizers, coaxial, flange and chip attenuators, terminations, and resistors to name only a few. MCE s quality system meets the requirements of the most demanding prime contractors and supports a variety of quality standards including MIL-A-3993, MIL-Q-9858, MIL-I-45208, as well as MIL-A-24215, MIL-D and MIL-T-945. ADDITIONAL MARKETS Employing technologies developed for our core markets, MCE also serves the needs of other specialized industry segments with microwave and RF products used in medical MRI-type applications and smart card technology, as well as remote sensing, navigation, and collision avoidance systems.

5 DIODES & CAPACITORS MCE s microwave and RF devices are the essential building blocks for the components and subsystems produced by MCE and our worldwide customers. MCE s device technology substantially enhances our ability to support customer needs at all levels. Supported by a state-of-the-art GaAs and SI wafer fabrication facility, advanced designs and process equipment, and a comprehensive quality assurance program, MCE welcomes requirements for uniquely packaged, tested, and screened diodes and capacitors. Our product offering includes: PIN Diodes in chip, beam lead & surface mount packages Schottky Diodes in rings, bridges, Series T, singles, antiparallel pairs, quads, octal and other configurations Schottky Mixer and Detector Diodes in surface mount packages Broadband and planar-type tunnel diode detectors GaAs Hyperabrupt Varactors, Step Recovery Diodes, and Sampling Phase Detectors Metal-Insulating Layer-Silicon (MIS) Capacitors D E V I C E S HBT AMPLIFIERS MCE offers a family of InGaP HBTs that are ideally suited for cellular, PCS, 2.5/3G, MMDS and WLL applications where flat gain and excellent linearity are required. These devices are also ideal for LNA, SCPA and MCPA amplifier gain blocks and driver circuits. Available in die, surface mount and custom packages, three classes of products are offered to cover frequencies to 5 GHz and higher, including: Fully matched Darlington MMICs Discrete partially matched amplifiers Packaged transistors RESISTIVE FILM PRODUCTS This group of products is built on a foundation of more than 48 years of technological advances and experience in both thin and thick resistive film on a variety of substrates. A complete product offering is available in both Beryllium Oxide (BeO) and environmentally-safe Aluminum Nitride (AlN) including: 50 and 100 ohm resistors Attenuators in standard values of 1-6, 10 and 20 db Terminations for stripline and microstrip packages Resistive film products are available in flange mount or chip packages and to power levels up to 800 watts CW

6 A history of 50 years in microwave and RF component technologies and one of the largest and most complete ATTENUATORS & TERMINATIONS Coaxial fixed attenuators in values to 60 db Coaxial terminations and cable load assemblies 2.4mm, 2.9mm, SMA, N, 7/16, SMB, and SMPM/GPPO, F, and BNC series Standard designs to 50 GHz and power levels to 1000 watts CW High-reliability and space-qualified designs Low passive intermodulation (IMD) designs C O M P O N E N T S product lines in the industry have established MCE as a market leader. ISOLATORS & CIRCULATORS Coaxial type covering 300 MHz to 18 GHz; 3 or 4-port configurations; connector types including N, SMA, TNC and tab Drop-in isolators and circulators type covering 800, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100 MHz and higher; power levels to 150 watts CW Isohybrids and Isocouplers DC BLOCKS & BIAS TEES MCE s component offering extends to 50 GHz, to power levels up to 1KW CW and are available in virtually every type of connector Bias Tees in 50 and 75 Ohm; frequency ranges covering 7 KHz to 50 GHz DC blocks covering 30 KHz to 50 GHz; inner only, outer only, and inner-outer designs; 2.4mm, 2.92mm, 7mm, N, SMA, BNC, F and other connector types configuration in a wide range of package types to suit customerspecific requirements. While MCE s product range includes thousands of off-the-shelf standard catalog designs, we provide substantial expertise in addressing special requirements and welcome opportunities for custom-designed products. MCPA ENABLING PRODUCTS Vector modulators in surface mounted packages covering all cellular / PCS, 2G, 2.5G and 3G frequency ranges Cavity filter delay lines with integrated couplers, isolators and circulators Linear delay lines and hybrid couplers Isolators, circulators, resistor products and HBT amplifiers

7 C O M P O N E N T S STEP AND VARIABLE ATTENUATORS PIN and GaAs switched digital step attenuators Relay and edge-line programmable attenuators Rotary step attenuators Design to 26 GHz, up to 10-bit, attenuation levels to 127 db, and step sizes from 0.1 to 10dB 75 Ohm designs and custom configurations Surface mounted voltage variable attenuators POWER SPLITTERS, DIVIDERS / COMBINERS & COUPLERS In-phase Wilkinson type dividers; 2 to 16-way configurations Broadband resistive splitters and dividers to 40 GHz High power, high directivity couplers Hybrid couplers CONNECTORS AND ADAPTERS Between series and in-series: F, 7/16, BNC, N, TNC, 7mm, SMA, BMA, 2.4mm, 2.9mm, 3.5mm GPO /SMP and GPPO /SMPM Planar Blind-Mate connectors and mass mount systems to 40 GHz Panel and flange mount connectors Planar Crown connector series OTHER COMPONENTS Gain Equalizers: fixed and adjustable; negative, positive and parabolic slope configurations Phase shifters: electrically and mechanically tuned multioctave designs Time delay units PIN diode switches Detectors and LNAs GPO and GPPO are Trademarks of Gilbert Engineering, Inc. Planar Blind-Mate is a Trademark of MCE Weinschel. Planar Crown is a Registered Trademark of MCE Weinschel.

8 MCE has acquired a vast library of modular circuit designs from years of experience manufacturing products for the Microwave and RF industry, and combined this with device and component expertise across the organization to offer highly integrated RF subassemblies and subsystems. RF FRONT ENDS & FILTER MODULES Complete RF front ends for 2G/3G mobile base station applications; consist of integrated high power diplexer, high gain LNA, couplers, dividers and signal detection ports High power diplexers, duplexers/filter combiners, and bandpass filters Bandpass and band reject filters with LNA bypass circuitry for BTS front end applications RF front ends for 13 GHz altimeter applications S U B S Y S T E M S SWITCHING / COMBINING SUBSYSTEMS By aligning our resources and implementing existing and new design and product technologies, MCE is thoroughly equipped to satisfy the most demanding requirements. Higher levels of integration using custom packaging methods, with mixed component technologies are needed to improve system performance PIN diode switch matrices for 2G/3G base station smart antenna applications GHz antenna switch matrix with LNAs for front end transceiver applications Combiner / divider subsystems, including a specialty in high power, high isolation, low IM designs for BTS expansion applications Cable modem head-end switch subsystems SmartStep bus controlled 50 and 75 Ohm switch matrices for uplink/downlink routing, frequency routing, and test applications: full and partial access blocking and non-blocking configurations ATTENUATION & TEST SUBSYSTEMS Smartstep bus controlled programmable step attenuator subsystems Multi-path, multi-channel attenuation subsystems for hand-over simulation of mobile communication networks BTS infrastructure built-in test diagnostics subsystems 100 watt hot-switchable attenuation units High power amplifiers for PCN, DCS, PCS, and WCDMA/ UMTS IMD test applications while reducing unit size and cost. By focusing MCE international resources, and applying expertise in RF packaging, we offer subsystems of superior performance. Smartstep is a Registered Trademark of MCE Weinschel. OTHER SUBSYSTEMS & SUBASSEMBLIES 3.5 GHz, class A, dual 10W output high power amplifiers for WLL applications RF/microwave clock driver circuits, including phase locked DROs, amplifiers, filters and monitoring circuit for optical modulators TDUs (time delay units) and multifunction microwave subassemblies Broadband transceivers

9 MCE / DML MICROWAVE Headquartered in the United Kingdom, DML is a leading supplier of isolators, circulators, WLL amplifiers, WLL diplexer/lnas, and instrumentation power amplifiers. In addition to its core product offering, DML offers specialized passive and active products including isohybrids, isocouplers, noise sources and custom subassemblies. A reputation for technical excellence for high volume manufacturing methods while delivering top quality products at competitive prices was instrumental in DML Microwave being one of a select group of British companies to receive the prestigious Queen s Award for Export Achievement. This was a further testament to the reputation for excellence that DML has earned with international wireless infrastructure OEMs. Established in 1972, MCE / DML Microwave occupies a 20,000 square foot facility at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. DML is an ISO-9001 qualified company. MCE / INMET In 1975, Inmet Corporation entered the microwave component manufacturing arena to provide quality, precision-made components at reasonable prices. Soon thereafter, the company s ability to develop and build custommade components for special applications was recognized, earning the company a reputation for innovation, custom design capabilities and an ever-expanding product line. A preferred vendor to broadband equipment manufacturers, defense subcontractors, and major commercial telecommunications and wireless OEMs throughout the world, MCE / Inmet offers a wide array of coaxial components in nearly every connector type, operating over frequency ranges of 7 khz to 50 GHz, and with power handling capabilities of 1 to 300 Watts. The company offers more than 3,000 variations of products, including coaxial fixed attenuators and terminations, bias tees, DC blocks, equalizers, and connectors. Inmet also zeroes in on the design and manufacture of specialized multi-component hybrids such as between series attenuators, combination DC block/attenuators or terminations and bias passing attenuators. Located in a 24,000 square foot facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan, MCE / Inmet maintains a close technical affiliation with the University of Michigan Electrical Engineering department and staff scientists to enhance its design technologies. Inmet is an ISO-9001 certified supplier. MCE / PRODUCTS Few manufacturers of RF and microwave components and subsystems offer the depth and breadth of technical expertise as MCE / KDI Integrated Products. Since its inception nearly 50 years ago, and organized as a formal division of MCE / KDI Triangle in 2001, it has continued its tradition of supplying high quality components and subsystems to a wide range of commercial, industrial and defense related applications. Offering components, subassemblies and subsystems that capitalize on a vast library of modular circuit designs from decades of manufacturing products for the RF and microwave industry, KDI Integrated Products is focused on providing standard and customdesigned products into specialized system applications. Our products include diode attenuators, phase shifters, modulators, switches, filters, LNAs, DROs, combiners, dividers, couplers, cavity diplexers, and delay lines which can be offered alone or integrated to provide multiple functions within a modular subsystem. Examples include RF front ends for CDMA and WCDMA base stations and other transmit-receive applications, antenna switch matrices, vector modulators and delay line assemblies for MCPA linearization applications, time delay units, clock driver circuits, switched LNA-Filter assemblies, broadband amplifiers (30 KHz to 35 GHz) for fiber optical applications, high-power / low-imd combiner assemblies, and built-in base station diagnostic test units to name only a few. MCE / KDI RESISTOR PRODUCTS Focused on resistive film technologies, MCE / KDI Resistor Products offers a comprehensive variety of low and high power surface mounted passive devices for the wireless infrastructure and defense markets. Applications for these products include single and multi-carrier power amplifiers, dividers/combiners, isolators, circulators, and circuits requiring stripline, microstrip and surface mounted flange packages. Recent technological advances in materials and processes have enabled KDI Resistor Products to introduce environmentally safe aluminum nitride (AlN) resistors, terminations and attenuators designed as an alternative to similar components using Beryllium oxide (BeO) ceramic. Our product offering includes flange mounted 50 and 100 Ohm resistors and terminations with power handling to 800 watts CW, coaxial cable load assemblies, and attenuators in standard values of 1-10, and 20 db. KDI Resistor Products also offers high power chip devices, terminating attenuators where low level signal sampling is required, and drop-in pill type attenuators and terminations. MCE / KDI is located in Whippany, New Jersey and is an ISO-9001 certified supplier. MCE / KDI Integrated Products is an ISO-9001 certified supplier and is located in a 70,000 square foot facility in Whippany, New Jersey.

10 DEVICES Resistors (AlN, BeO; chip and flange mount) Terminations (AlN, BeO; chip and flange mount) Attenuators (AlN, BeO; chip and flange mount) Si & GaAs Schottky diodes Si & GaAs PIN diodes Step recovery diodes, tunnel diodes & tuning varactors Metal-Insulating Layer-Silicon (MIS) capacitors InGaP HBT amplifiers & related IC products Fiber optic detectors KDI RESISTOR KDI RESISTOR KDI RESISTOR MCE / Since its inception 24 years ago, Metelics has earned a reputation as a supplier of the highest performance diode products available to the commercial wireless, defense, space and broadband industries. Today, MCE / Metelics continues its technological leadership and offers a complete product range of PIN and Schottky diodes, SRDs and tuning varactors, MIS capacitors, and InGaP HBTs in a variety of standard and custom-designed package configurations. Among Metelics many areas of expertise, we have developed a unique process technology that has made it possible to achieve large volume production of the highest fco Schottkys and SRDs with some of the lowest transition times available to the industry. Our customer orientation of catering to special package, test and screening needs, combined with our stateof-the-art wafer fabrication facility, advanced process controls, and design expertise, is aligned to serve a wide range of market applications. Our process includes complete electrical, visual quality, and metelization inspection of wafers prior to release to production. Dies are then given a 100% DC test and are visually inspected. In the production of devices or assemblies for packaged units, all units are 100% tested to ensure compliance to all required specification parameters. MCE / Metelics is located in a 21,000 square foot facility in Sunnyvale, California. Our technology, manufacturing and quality resources meet the most demanding requirements of prime contractors and MIL specifications. MCE TECHNOLOGIES NANJING MCE s Nanjing operations were initiated in October 2000 through the establishment of a representative office to oversee local third party manufacturing logistics and awards. In 2001, the formation of MCE Technologies (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary organized under Chinese law, facilitated the expansion of our operation to include MCE research and development, manufacturing, test, quality assurance, sales and related technical services of microwave and RF devices, components and subsystems. MCE s operations in China are concentrated in three areas that include product development and manufacturing for our North American and European customers with operations in China; product manufacturing for a growing list of domestic China-based OEMs; and to provide low-cost manufacturing of MCE-produced designs for customers throughout the world. MCE Technologies occupies a 16,000 square foot facility located in Nanjing China s Jiangning new economic and technology development zone. MCE / Over the past fifty years the name Weinschel has become synonymous with leadership in RF and microwave technologies and superior quality components and subsystems for wireless, defense, test and measurement, and broadband markets throughout the world. Among its many technological achievements, Weinschel was the first to design and manufacture commercially available coaxial attenuators. Today, built upon a strong heritage, MCE / Weinschel continues to provide a vast array of standard products together with custom-engineered solutions to satisfy demanding market needs for precision and high-reliability coaxial components. MCE / Weinschel s product offering includes fixed attenuators for test, metrology and space applications; continuously variable, manual step, solid-state digital step and programmable step attenuators; high power terminations; resistive splitters and dividers; manual phase shifters; Planar Blind-Mate, Planar Crown connectors. In addition to coaxial components covering DC-40 GHz, Weinschel offers a complete range of standard and custom-designed SmartStep multipath switching, combining, and attenuation subsystems for cable infrastructure and mobile wireless test applications. MCE / Weinschel s 35,000 square foot facility, located in Frederick, Maryland, is certified to ISO-9001 standards. COMPONENTS SUBSYSTEMS Coaxial ferrite isolators and circulators DML MICROWAVE Drop-in ferrite isolators and circulators DML MICROWAVE Noise generators DML MICROWAVE Fixed attenuators and terminations, coaxial INMET DC blocks, coaxial INMET Bias tees, coaxial INMET Coaxial in-series and between series adapters INMET Equalizers (coaxial & rectangular) INMET Resistive element based RF cable loads & terminations KDI RESISTOR Solid-state phase shifters Surface mount and broadband digital step attenuators Power dividers, couplers and combiners Vector modulators & cavity delay lines Filters, including bandpass, duplexers, and diplexers Precision and space-qualified grade fixed attenuators Precision and high-reliability grade terminations Continuously variable and manually stepped attenuators Mechanical tuned phase shifters Electromechanical step attenuators (relay & edge-line based designs) Solid-state FET and PIN step attenuators Planar Crown and Planar Blind-Mate connectors Resistive splitters and dividers and certain types of dc blocks Amplifiers, diplexers & LNAs WLL and MMDS infrastructure markets DML MICROWAVE High power amplifiers for the IMD test & measurement applications DML MICROWAVE Custom-designed RF modules for defense, broadband and mobile markets RF front end units for mobile infrastructure markets Broadband low power amplifiers & RF modules BTS diagnostic test units for infrastructure markets Switch matrices for infrastructure markets Switching / combining / attenuation subsystems for T&M applications Switching subsystems for cable head-end infrastructure applications Visit our web sites for additional information and a complete review of MCE s product offering.

11 MCE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 310 Dino Drive Ann Arbor, MI Tel: Fax: Web: MCE / DML MICROWAVE Chandlers Way, Temple Farm Industrial Estate Southend on Sea, Essex, SS2 5SE England Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) sales@dmlmicrowave.co.uk Web: MCE / INMET 300 Dino Drive Ann Arbor, MI Tel: , Fax: sales@inmetcorp.com Web: MCE / PRODUCTS MCE / KDI RESISTOR PRODUCTS 60 South Jefferson Road Whippany, NJ Phone: (sales), (main) Fax: sales@kditriangle.com Web: MCE / 975 Stewart Drive Sunnyvale, CA Tel: Fax: sales@metelics.com Web: MCE / 5305 Spectrum Drive Frederick, MD Tel: , Fax: sales@weinschel.com Web: MCE TECHNOLOGIES NANJING 4th Floor, Easthigh Int'l Mansion 108 Tian Yuan Rd. Jiangning Economic & Technological Development Zone Nanjing, , P. R. of China Tel: Fax: aqiu@mcetechnic.com