RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for P1dB’s 100 Watt, low PIM termination. Covering 0.8 to 2.6GHz, the P1dB P1LP-Term-716J100W features low PIM performance of <163dBc @ +43dBm/tone. VSWR performance is 1.09:1 from a 7/16 female connector. The P1LP-Term-716J100W from P1dB continues the expansion of P1dB’s family of Low PIM offerings, including cable assemblies, adapters, attenuators, and now terminations. The P1LP-Term-716J100W is well suited for a variety of base station applications, test and measurement, and systems testing. Available from stock in small quantity.
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RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for Skyworks SKY12215-478LF, a 125W SPDT switch covering 0.9 to 4.0GHz. Based on silicon PIN diode technology, the SKY12215-478LF features low insertion loss of 0.4dB, minimizing receiver noise figure in Rx applications. 43dB antenna to receiver isolation provides protection from large transmitter output signals enabling this switch to operate in T/R and failsafe high power switching applications. The Skyworks SKY12215-478LF typical switching speed is 250nS making it well suited for a variety of telecommunications systems such as WiMAX, TD-SCDMA or LTE small cells and BTS or, military radios. The SKY12215-478LF is packaged in…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for the TGA2814, S-Band amplifier from TriQuint Semiconductor. The TGA2814 covers 3.1 to 3.6GHz with up to 80W pulsed Psat and power added efficiency as high as 56%. Using 0.25um GaN technology, this two-stage amplifier provides 25dB of gain while drawing only 125mA from a 30V source. The TriQuint TGA2814 is available in DIE format for applications requiring high output power with high power added efficiency.
RFMW, Ltd. announces sales support for a USB controlled, RF, digital step attenuator from Telemakus. The TEA13000-12 is based on an analog circuit driven by a 16-bit ADC providing extremely fine control down to ~0.03dB step size. This fine resolution of the TEA13000-12 is needed for applications requiring cancellation or automatic level control (ALC) functions. Covering a broad bandwidth, the Telemakus TEA13000-12 spans 100MHz to 13GHz with 2dB typical insertion loss and 30dB dynamic range. Not much larger than a standard thumb drive, the TEA13000-12 is the smallest USB controlled DSA on the market and weighs less than an ounce.…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design, sales support and availability of TriQuint Semiconductor’s TAT8804D1H ultra-linear GaAs amplifier MMIC intended for output stage amplification in CATV infrastructure applications where flat gain and low distortion are key considerations. This 12V power doubler features 21dB gain at 1200MHz with a P1dB of 34dBm. The TAT8804D1H high gain allows it to replace two existing competitor’s amplifiers thereby reducing part count, board space and overall BOM cost while reducing power dissipation by up to 30%. TriQuint’s TAT8804D1H comes in a 40-pin, 5x7mm QFN package.
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for Scintera Networks SC1894 radio frequency power amplifier linearizer (RFPAL). As power amplifiers are driven into saturation they increase in both efficiency and distortion. The SC1894 injects a correction signal at the input of the PA in order to minimize distortion at the output of the PA. The result is higher output power from the PA and increased efficiency. Scintera’s SC1894 closed-loop and adaptive linearizer provides significant advantages in small cell applications over traditional digital predistortion (DPD) solutions or operating the amplifier in back off. Advantages include: reduced overall BOM costs, reduced system…
10/15/2013 – San Jose, California: RFMW Ltd., today announced the opening of direct sales offices in Russia. With locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the new sales organization will support customers in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. RFMW is a specialized distributor that uniquely provides customers and suppliers with focused distribution of RF/microwave components as well as customer specific component engineering support. These direct sales offices allow RFMW to quickly and effectively introduce products from RFMW’s suppliers into RF/microwave design centers and OEMs currently located within these areas, and support the supply chain to contract manufacturing…
RFMW, Ltd. announces immediate delivery of selected, one meter cable assemblies from Florida RF Labs, Inc. The Lab-Flex® family of cable assemblies boasts six different cable types supporting applications to 65GHz. They are extremely well-suited for high frequency test applications and high-density interconnects where insertion loss and stability over temperature are concerns. Florida RF Lab-Flex® assemblies offer >90dB of shielding effectiveness and a wide range of connectors including, but not limited to, 7/16, TNC, SMA, 2.4mm, 2.92mm and 1.86mm interfaces in various configurations. The Lab-Flex® product family are all manufactured using a custom solder sleeve and are available with extended…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for the TQL9047, an 8-pin, 2x2mm DFN packaged gain block from TriQuint Semiconductor. The TQL9047 offers internally match I/O over the frequency range of 50 to 4000MHz. With OIP3 of 35.5dBm, this gain block is ideally suited for BTS transceivers and repeaters or for IF chains in high frequency PTP radios. Military, L-band radios would also benefit from the high linearity. The TriQuint TQL9047 offers shutdown capability, a unique feature for low-cost gain blocks and requires only a 3 to 5V positive supply while drawing 70mA.
RFMW , Ltd. announces design and sales support for a new 7-bit, 31.75dB digital step attenuator from Peregrine Semiconductor. The PE43704 offers an extremely wide operational frequency range of 9kHz to 8GHz. DC blocking capacitors are not required if DC voltage is not present on the RF ports. Even with this large bandwidth, the PE43704 maintains excellent monotonicity over the entire frequency range. Peregrine’s PE43704 handles up to 31dBm of instantaneous power with a CW power rating of 28 dBm. 0.25dB steps, 1.8V/3.3V control logic and an IIP3 of 61dBm make this an ideal step attenuator for multiple applications. The…