Compact delay line beats alternative technologies

A Smiths Interconnect - EMC Technology product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 3, 2002

New from EMC Technology is the SloWave delay line.

New from EMC Technology is the SloWave delay line.

The device joins a growing product line that includes the Thermo pad temperature variable attenuator, the SmartLoad power sensing termination and a broad collection of chip and surface-mount terminations, attenuators and other RF and microwave resistive products.

SloWave is available in frequency ranges from 800MHz to 2.7GHz and in delay times from 3 to 20ns.

Custom delays and frequencies are also available.

SloWave offers numerous advantages over alternative technologies, including two surface mount packaging options (ball-grid and J-lead), an orientation independent footprint, small physical outline (around 6.4cm2), excellent temperature stability of less than 2ppm/degC, low insertion loss of less than 0.3dB/ns, and less than 0.5 degrees peak-peak phase ripple.

The new delay line is ideal for applications in feed-forward amplifier designs, ECM systems, microwave altimeters, radar systems and cellular basestation applications.