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BeeWave

Introduction

Building RF PCBs has been a major barrier facing RF & Microwave circuit designers and educators. Complex design, costly fabrication and hard troubleshooting forced many designers to rely mainly on theoretical calculations and simulations leading to suboptimal designs and poor classroom experience.

BeeWave is a novel concept that allows users to build complete RF circuits with their own hands, from the comfort of their desks and with no special tools required. No longer will you need to worry about biasing, powering or matching complex tracks on your PCB, BeeWave acts like an RF breadboard where you just need to place and connect different modules (each representing an RF function) and let BeeWave worry about the rest.

Superior RF performance makes BeeWave an ideal tool for professional prototyping while ease of use , pre-built teaching configurations as well as PC/Matlab connectivity make it a perfect tool for teaching RF and wireless concepts hands-on instead of on a computer screen.

Features & Benefits

Readymade Plug & Play modules for typical RF functions up to 6 GHz
Connect modules & build complete RF circuits in a matter of minutes
Ideal for Hands-on education of RF & Microwave concepts
The fastest way to prototype, test & validate RF circuit designs
Build any RF & Microwave circuit without the need for complex RF PCB design and fabrication
Improve your design over multiple design iterations without the cost or delay of PCB re-fabrication
Readymade configurations for education and classroom training
PC controlled modules, compatible with Matlab

BeeHive

A backplane with hexagon shapes. It holds the modules and easily provides power and control data communications.

Hive8

Hive20

Application Modules

Fixed gain amplifier optimized for applications requiring high performance & wide bandwidth gain blocks

Frequency Range: 10 MHz to 6000 MHz
Gain: 14 dB
P1dB Output Power: 15 dBm
Input Return Loss (S11): -20 dB
Output Return Loss (S22): -9 dB
Reverse Isolation: 25 dB

Max. DC Voltage at input or output: 25 V
Max RF input power: 20 dBm

AMP6000

Variable gain amplifier

Frequency Range: 10 – 6000 MHz
Gain Setting: -19.75 to 12 dB
Gain Resolution: 0.25 dB (Typical)
P1dB Output Power: 15 dBm
Input Return Loss (S11): -15 dB
Output Return Loss (S22): -10 dB
Reverse Isolation: 23 dB

Max. DC Voltage at input or output: 25 V
Max. RF input power: 20 dBm

VGA6000

Variable gain amplifier

Frequency Range: 50 – 1000 MHz
Gain Setting: -12.25 to 19.5 dB
Gain Resolution: 0.25 dB (Typical)
Input Return Loss (S11): -15 dB
Output Return Loss (S22): -15 dB
Reverse Isolation: 25 dB

Max. DC Voltage at input or output: 25 V
Max. RF input power: 20 dBm

VGA1000

Wideband low noise amplifier

Frequency Range: 700-2700 MHz
Saturated Output Power: 18 dBm
1 dB Output Compression Point: 15 dBm
Noise Figure: 2dB
Small Signal Gain (S21): 16 dB
Input Return Loss (S11): -18 dB

Output Return Loss (S22): -17 dB
DC Voltage (RF in , RF out): 25 Vdc
Max. RF input power: +20 dBm

lna2700

Band Pass Filter based on ceramic filters technology

Bandwidth: 100 – 1020 MHz
Center Frequency: 2450 - 5500 MHz
Return Loss: -22 dB
Pass Band Insertion Loss: -5 dB
Stop Band Attenuation: -40 dB
Max. RF input power: 20 dBm

BPF_CER1

Band Pass Filter based on SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) technology

Bandwidth: 2 – 80 MHz
Center Frequency: 315 - 2440 MHz
Return Loss: -20 dB
Pass Band Insertion Loss: -2 dB
Stop Band Attenuation: -40 dB
Max. RF input power: 20 dBm

BPF_SAW1

Band Pass Filter

Bandwidth: 40 – 72 MHz
Center Frequency: 1900 - 2436 MHz
Return Loss: --17.5 dB
Pass Band Insertion Loss: -1 dB
Stop Band Attenuation: -35 dB
Max. RF input power: 20dBm

BPF_SAW2

Ceramic Low pass filter module

Cutoff Frequency: 150 – 6000 MHz
Return Loss: -20 dB
Pass Band Insertion Loss: -3 dB
Stop Band Attenuation: -50 dB
Max. RF input power: 20 dBm

LPF _CER1

High performance, Wide band Microwave double balanced passive mixer(can be used for frequency up-conversion or downconversion)

Frequency Range
RF : 2-14 GHz
LO : 1-12 GHz
IF :10 – 6000 MHz
Return Loss:
RF : -25 TO -9 dB
LO : -25 TO -5 dB
IF : -17 TO -5 dB
Conversion loss : 8 dB @ 6 GHz

LO to IF Leakage: -25 dBm
RF to IF Isolation: 40 dB
SSB Noise Figure @ 6 GHz: 8 dB
IIP3 @ 6 GHz: 24 dBm
Max. DC Voltage at input or output: 25 V
RF and IF input power: 20 dBm
LO input power: 10 dBm

MX1

Ultra-wideband phaselocked loop (PLL) with integrated voltage control oscillators (VCOs)with good phase noise and spurious performance

Frequency Range: 23.5 – 6000 MHz
Output Power @1GHz
Power Setting 0: -8 dBm
Power Setting 1: -5 dBm
Power Setting 2: -2 dBm
Power Setting 3: 1 dBm
Frequency Resolution
3000 to 6000 MHz : 100KHz
1500 to 3000 MHz: 50khz

750 to 1500 MHz: 25khz
375 to 750 MHz: 12.5khz
187.5 to 375 MHz: 6.25khz
Phase Noise @ 1GHz & 10 KHz offset: -104 dBc/Hz
2nd Harmonic: -20 dBc
3rd Harmonic: -7 dBc
DC Voltage on RF output or REF in: 50 Vdc

LO6000

10 MHz clock reference source used to provide reference clock inputs to local oscillators

Number of Outputs: 4
Output Frequency: 10 MHz
Output Power: 11 dBm
Frequency Stability: 2.5 ppm

REF1

SPDT absorptive RF switch

Frequency Range: 10 – 6000 MHz
Insertion Loss: 1.5 dB (Typical)
RFC Return Loss: -15 dB
Active Port Return Loss: -15 dB
Terminated Port Return Loss: -15 dB
RF Input Power Handling (Active): 36 dBm

RF Input Power Handling (Terminated): 26 dBm
Input IP2 @ 2 GHz: 120 dBm
Input IP3 @ 2 GHz: 65 dBm
Max. RF input power:40 dBm
Max. DC Voltage at input or output: 50 Vdc
Isolation @ 2GHz : 50dB

RFSW1

SPDT absorptive RF switch

Frequency Range: 30 – 5000 MHz
Insertion Loss: 1.5 dB (Typical)
RFC Return Loss: -20 dB
Active Port Return Loss: -15 dB
Terminated Port Return Loss: -17 dB
RF Input Power Handling (Active): 33 dBm

RF Input Power Handling (Terminated): 24 dBm
Input IP2 @ 2 GHz: 97 dBm
Input IP3 @ 2 GHz: 58 dBm
Max. RF input power:35 dBm
Max. DC Voltage at input or output: 50 Vdc

RFSW2

Wideband variable attenuator

Frequency Range: 10 – 6000 MHz
Insertion Loss: 2.5dB (ty)
Attenuation Setting: -31.75 dB (min)
Attenuation Resolution: 0.25dB (ty)

Return Loss: -15dB (ty)
RF Input Power :23dBm (max)
Input IP3: 55dBm
Max DC Voltage at input or output: 25 Volt

VAT6000

Power Supply module providing DC supply to all other Beewave modules through the backplane

Input Voltage: 12 Vdc (typical)
Output Voltage: 3.3 Vdc and 5 Vdc
Maximum output power: 30 Watt
Efficiency: up to 89%
Universal Input Range: 90-305VAC

Input voltage reverse Protection
Output Short Circuit and overload Protection
4 Additional Outputs (5V and 3.3V)

PWR1

BeeWave

Introduction

Features & Benefits