Mouser signs RF and microwave prototyping line

Through the agreement, Mouser is now stocking Quantic X-Microwave's modular hardware solutions.

Quantic X-Microwave produces a comprehensive range of modular RF and microwave building blocks that allow designers to seamlessly design, evaluate, prototype, and deliver high-performance RF and microwave systems faster, easier, and at a lower cost.

Applications include wireless infrastructure, radar, navigation, transportation, quantum computing, medical devices, test and measurement and more. Each block includes key components, such as amplifiers, mixers, filters, and switches.

Every block is designed with a standard launch geometry, allowing any two blocks to be cascaded using a patented solderless interconnect system.

Complex designs can be built on the prototyping plate with RF blocks on top and matched bias, sequencing, and control boards on the bottom. The user can quickly switch out individual components until the desired results are achieved.

The drop-in components can then easily transition from the prototyping plate to a machined H-frame housing for quick, low-risk transition to production.

To get started using Quantic X-Microwave's modular RF and microwave building blocks, it is recommended that the user first obtain the Design Essentials. These essentials include brass or copper nickel-plated prototyping plates, solderless interconnects, ground-signal-ground jumpers, probes, a touchscreen controller and more.

Users can then choose from a wide variety of key RF component manufacturers, such as Qorvo, Analog Devices, Knowles, and MACOM, among others, and begin designing their applications.

Free online tools provide a graphic user interface (GUI), enabling designers to optimize design topology for performance, size, cost and power consumption.