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So I just looked up the prices on Mouser and Digikey for an amplifier or mixer in those frequencies, and boy are they expensive. The R&D spend must be enormous
by wbl 8y ago
So I just looked up the prices on Mouser and Digikey for an amplifier or mixer in those frequencies, and boy are they expensive. The R&D spend must be enormous for them not to be making those parts in these frequencies as separate bits.
- apcragg 8y agoI mean, you can make a RADAR with a single transistor, 2 diodes, an exotic but off the shelf VCO, and clever transmission lines. I doubt the R&D cost is very high for for the MMIC here.
- madengr 8y agoTI is making a 60 GHz RADAR in a CMOS process. I’m sure R&D costs were heavy, but production will be cheap. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333330 https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333330