Powerful Microwave Synthesizer Offers Intuitive User Interface

July 21, 2003

The 2400 series microwave synthesizer features a simplified yet robust and innovative user interface. It limits the front-panel interface to the control of basic parameters to reduce the total number of soft screens, buttons, and menu layers dramatically, making it quick to learn and easy to use. The unit can switch in under 400 µs over its three operating frequency ranges of 10 MHz to 8 GHz, 10 MHz to 20 GHz, and 10 MHz to 40 GHz. The 2400 series includes WaveMaker, a Windows XP PC-based software package designed for an enhanced user interface and automatic-test-equipment systems. Prices start at $17,000. Shipments begin in August.

Giga-Tronics Inc.www.gigatronics.com; (925) 328-4650

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.