Measuring Frequency Synthesizer specifications
The TB-567 appears to be a generic test board you can use to evaluate several models  (maybe families) of Minicircuits devices.

You get a TB-567 and mount your synthesizer on it.  

You use the TB-567 rather than building your own so that you don't have to design and have a PCB made and assembled.  

You can't plop a 2GHz device on a breadboard and expect to do anything useful, so Minicircuits provides the TB-567 to help you get going.

You could design a PCB with power and RF connectors and have it made and assembled.  If you go that way, though, part of your test will be verifying that your own design is correct and correctly carried out.



Yes, Con4 is the 15MHz in and Con5 is the synthesized output.

Looks like you also have to provide data to program the synthesizer output.  The TB-567  provides a USB connector and associated hardware.  You'll probably have to have a program on your PC to tell the synthesizer what to do.

Really, you need to contact Minicircuits for more information.  There's more to this than you might imagine at first glance.

For example, the datasheet doesn't mention how to use data and clock to program the synthesizer.  Maybe it has default settings - but the datasheet doesn't mention that, either.