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  Gallium arsenide monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology encompasses the discipline of semiconductor materials and devices, microwave circuit design, and fields and waves. GaAs MMIC are analog circuits that usually contains less than 10 transistors on a typical chip. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is a well-established device technology used for many commercial and military systems. The unique features of GaAs as a semiconductor material makes it particularly suited to fabrication of high performance and high speed devices. The design of GaAs MMICs is characterized by the extensive use of computer aided design techniques. The primary advantages of GaAs MMIC as compared to the other microwave circuitry include small size, light weight, high reliability, multifunctional capability, low cost potential and broad bandwidth capacity. These devices mostly perform functions like microwave mixing, power amplification, low noise amplification and high frequency switching. MMICs ...