Aeroflex Weinschel Inc.

Aeroflex Weinschel product list:

Aeroflex / Weinschel offers a wide variety of Standard RF & Microwave
Components & Subsystems that operate over the dc to 50 GHz frequency
range. Aeroflex / Weinschel also designs and manufacturers Custom RF
and Microwave Components for application specific requirements.

>> Fixed Coaxial Attenuators (2-10 W)
>> High Power Fixed Attenuators (25-500 W)
>> Calibrated Attenuator Set
>> Coaxial Terminations
>> Continuously Variable Attenuator
>> Manual Step Attenuators

>> Relay Switched Programmable Attenuators
>> GaAs & Pin Switched Programmable Attenuators
>> SmartStep Programmable/Switch Controllers, 8210A
>> SmartStep Programmable Attenuator Units, 8310/8311
>> Power Splitters & Dividers
>> Coaxial Adapters

>> Planar Blind-Mate Connector Systems
>> Planar Crown® Connector Systems
>> Custom & Other Components
>> Subsystems & Accessories
>> Mechanical Phase Shifters
>> DC Blocks

Attenautors

Weinschel Engineering, Co., was the first to design and manufacture
commercially available coaxial attenuators. From the company's very first

DC-1 GHz tee attenuator, came the technology that enabled the design of the first DC-5 GHz, the first DC-10 GHz, and the first DC-18 GHz coaxial attenuators. These designs led to the development of the distributed resistor card attenuator element, which is the basis for most all attenuators manufactured today from DC-60 GHz. Until the original patents expired a few years ago, most major attenuator manufacturers in the U.S. were licensed under one or more Weinschel Engineering, Co., patents.

Today, our product line includes a wide variety of standard and custom
designed fixed, continuously variable, manual and motorized step, and
programmable binary step attenuators covering the DC to 40 GHz
frequency range, at power levels up to 1,000 watts. Aeroflex / Weinschel 
is also a major supplier of HI-Rel MIL-3933 and Space qualified attenuators.

Connectors & Adapters

The superior performance Aeroflex / Weinschel components enjoy is due
to our connector design capabilities. Utilizing proprietary design
techniques, we offer connectorized devices that are mechanically robust,
stable over environmental extremes, and highly reliable. We offer a
comprehensive line of between-series adapters, blind-mate connectors,
and our patented PLANAR CROWN® Connector System.

Our Planar Blind-mate Connector Series provides threadless connector mating which is useful when mating an array of connectors from one RF module to another in seconds with a "Forgiving" Mechanical Interface that can permit a 0.02 Mis-Alignment.  These connectors offer dc to 40 GHz operation, a contact life of 1.0 m cycles and a repeatability of 0.05 dB typical per connection. Other features of this connector series include pressurized and unpressurized designs, SMA and SMB connector options, space saving, and rugged construction.

 

Other components

Aeroflex / Weinschel  offers a comprehensive product line of coaxial
Terminations, Power Dividers, and Power Splitters. Many of these
standard products were designed for particularly demanding boradband
requirements, SWR, and high power system applications. As with the
development of all Weinschel Corporation products, high performance at
competitive prices is of paramount importance.

Although the Aeroflex / Weinschel  product line contains a wide variety of standard components, a substantial portion of our revenues is generated through the sales of custom components developed with internal funds. A large majority of these customized products are the result of adapting a standard or generic product to specific customer needs. This process provides our customers with reliable, high quality products at competitive prices to meet demanding technical and schedule requirements.

Programmable Attenuators

Aeroflex / Weinschel  offers a wide selection of Programmable
Attenuators that operate over the dc-26.5 GHz frequency range. Our
programmable attenuators offer many features such as long switching life,
high reliability, choice of standard attenuation and frequency ranges,
long-term stability, quality connectors, and custom designs. Applications
for these programmable attenuators are and have been primarily in areas
demanding broadband accuracy with low SWR and accurate repeatability
over large attenuation ranges. The Aeroflex / Weinschel  Programmable
Attenuators are widely used in many types of wireless, ATE and OEM
systems operating throughout the world.

Aeroflex / Weinschel has recently added a number of new models to its product offering such as wireless models operating from dc-1.2 GHz in a variety of attenuation ranges and step sizes; 75 ohm models (dc-1 GHz, 0-63 GHz); a SmartStep® Series (3200T, 150T); 3 GHz models (see 3200 & 3200T Series; and a new series of GaAs & Pin switched that operate to 2.5 GHz with many step sizes.

SMARTSTEP® Components & Subsystems

Aeroflex / Weinschel now offers custom subsystem designs using our new
Smartstep® design approach. Our subsystem designs will provide the
customer with a flexible, low cost solution for the operation and packaging
of programmable step attenuators and other components such as power
combiners/dividers/splitters, amplifiers, switches, filters, etc. Options
can include standard controller interfaces (IEEE-488.1, RS-232,
RS-422 and others); multiple attenuation / switching schemes;

individual to complex matrix/channel configurations; specialized testing and calibration; and customized packaging. These subsystems are ideal for use in specific test, simulation and emulation of cellular, PCS, wireless, mobile, cable and telecommunication applications.

Corporate profile

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, Aeroflex / 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.

Aeroflex / 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 ® multi-path switching,
combining, and attenuation subsystems for cable infrastructure and
mobile wireless test applications, including RF simulation, multi-path and
fading, high-power hot-switching attenuation, RF signal conditioning,
RF and IF signal routing, and production testing.

Aerroflex / Weinschel’s 35,000 square foot facility, located in Frederick,
Maryland, is certified to ISO 9001-2000 standards

The Aeroflex Weinschel Web site:  www.weinschel.com