Streamline System Design & Device Integration!

Aeroflex / Weinschel's new SmartStep technology streamlines system designs and device integration by providing a flexible bus interface as well as components that are simple to configure and control. Creating Subsystems using Aeroflex / Weinschel’s Smartstep approach streamlines the design and layout of application specific subsystems that include a wide range of microwave and RF components such as programmable/fixed attenuators, power combiners/dividers/splitters, directional couplers, amplifiers, filters, noise sources and switches which can be controlled using various standard communications interfaces including IEEE-488, RS232, RS422, Ethernet (SNMP option) and RS485. Subsystem design options can also include:

• Turnkey subsystems built to customer specified design & layout.
• Wide dynamic and frequency ranges.
• Front panel and menu controls.
• 50 or 75 ohm configurations.
• Attenuation/switching schemes.
• Customer specified Input/Output parameters.
• Individual to complex matrix/channel configurations.
• Specialized testing and calibration

• Cable Modem Testing.
• Cellular PCS Fading Simulation.
• Cellular & PCS Subsystems with Low IM Components.
• Switch Matrcies.
• Complex RF Matrices.
• Programmable/Switch Controllers
• SmartStep Programmable Attenuators.
• Plug & Go Switch/Relay Drivers.
• Attenuation Modules & Multi-Channel Subsystems.
• SmartStep High Power Programmable Switches.
• SmartStep High Power (100 W)
  Hot-Switchable Attenuator Units.

One of the strengths of Weinschel's Subsystem group is the ability to use our other standard catalog as well as in-house developed production products such as:

• Fixed Coaxial Attenuators & Terminations
  (dc-40 GHz, 2-1,000 Watts)
• Variable Attenuators & Phase Shifters
• Programmable Attenuators (Relay)
• Solid-State Attenuators (GaAs & FET)
• Power Splitters & Dividers
• Coaxial Adapters, Planar Blind-Mate &
  Planar Crown® Connector Systems
• SmartStep™ Components
• Custom & Other Components