[Legacy Report] Perspective on Microwave Monitor and Control Interfaces

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Thirty years ago, active microwave components were supplied with a variety of monitor and control interfaces with little regard to ease of system integration. The result was that system integrators were required to design hardware-specific interfaces for each device and to characterize them individually because of wide unit-to-unit variation. Devices with numerous control lines resulted in increasingly cumbersome system wiring.
As systems have become more complex over the years, the needs to reduce system wiring and to have more consistent unit-to-unit performance have been driving the microwave component industry towards more sophisticated and more standardized interfaces. This presentation explores interface solutions that minimize the impact on microwave component OEMs while providing rugged, standardized system interfaces.

Wayne Miller has been a consultant in North Jersey since 1980, supporting a number of industries, but with heavy concentration in the microwave field. Prior to becoming a consultant, he worked for five years as a development engineer for Aircraft Radio in Boonton, where he worked on their first L-band DME product, and for which he obtained two US patents. With his experience in microwave synthesizers, pulse transmitters, and receivers; he was hired by Engelmann Microwave, where he became the manager of the Source Group, which developed and produced low noise oscillators, PLOs and digital synthesizers.
While at Engelmann Microwave, requests came from other companies that encouraged Miller to become an independent consultant. In this capacity, he has worked with dozens of companies in a variety of industries and research groups, most of which are in the microwave industry. The greatest concentration of his design efforts has been with microwave systems, subsystems, and components. Three decades of ongoing industry involvement at all levels have provided the insight for this presentation.

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