Those in the market for impedance matching pads might want to look at Trilithic's ZM series of minimum loss, coaxial pads, resistive "L" pads which provide the minimum loss possible for resistive matching between different impedances.

According to a good description of the product provided by company officials, they provide performance through 1 GHz and offer “an accurate and convenient means of impedance transformation.”

Most signal and sweep generators have a nominal source impedance of 50 or 75 ohms, Trilithic officials note, adding that in their case, by using the ZM series pads, “these impedances can be transformed to a different impedance as required for a specific application.”

If you need impedance conversions other than those on standard offer, no problem, they can be provided on special request. They’re available in a variety of connector configurations as well.

About a month ago, TMC’s (News - Alert) Susan J. Campbell wrote that Trilithic’s VTF series of frequency hopping filters are designed to offer the user the capability of turning over multiple octave ranges while also maintaining extremely tight tolerances on performance. When performance is optimized, the network and supported communications continue as expected.

A number of sites can experience issues when interference is created by an environment that is RF crowded. The VTF series of filters can help to mitigate the issues present, and prevent problems such as ground vehicle mounted and shipboard systems. One of the perks offered by this test equipment is a smaller footprint to allow better performance.

 Trilithic has positioned the VTF Series of filters to be ideal for new system applications, as well as system modifications that are already in place. To extend the value of this solution, Trilithic also offers several frequency ranges to meet various communication test equipment needs.