Author: RFMW

RFMW announces design and sales support for a high efficiency amplifier from Qorvo. The QPA9942 power amplifier supports small cells operating in the 3300 to 3800 MHz frequency range with up to 35.5 dBm P3dB and 31 dB of gain. DPD corrected ACPR is -50 dBc at +28 dBm output power. Drawing 84 mA from a 5 volt supply, the QPA9942 also supports DAS and mMIMO systems. Internally matched to 50 ohms at both input and output, it is offered in a 5×5 mm, SMT package.

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FMW announces design and sales support for Unictron (formerly SANAV) antenna modules. The Unictron AM-25 is a small form factor, Active GPS Antenna module, with full CE approval for use within the European Market for L1 applications. The high gain (28 dB) antenna assembly operates from a 2.5V supply and contains passive filtering for improved selectivity. With a 1.5dB noise figure and excellent gain performance almost to the horizon, The AM-25 will provide the user with coverage within foliage or urban canyon environments. CE certification approval offers an ideal solution for the designer who is in a hurry and requires…

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RFMW announces design and sales support for a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) duplexer from Qorvo. The QPQ1013Q is a compact, high-performance NoDrift™ Surface Acoustic Wave duplexer designed to meet the strict band 13 NS07 rejection requirements mitigating signal migration in the public safety frequency band for use in NAD (Network Attached Device) applications. The QPQ1013Q boasts only 1 dB uplink insertion loss and 1.4 dB downlink insertion loss.

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RFMW announces design and sales support for mmWave, surface mount filters from Cubic Nuvotronics. The PSF19B02S interdigital filter has a pass band of 17.7 to 20.2 GHz with 50 Ω characteristic impedance. Handling a maximum input power of 2 Watts, this SMT filters’ low insertion loss is 2.5 dB max. and boasts 46 dB lower bandpass rejection and 36 upper bandpass rejection. PolyStrata technology provides wide bandwidth, exceptional filtering performance and minimal part-to-part variation for consistent results in production environments supporting 5G backhaul, satellite communications, RF telemetry, and instrumentation. RoHS compliant, PSF19B02S filters are available on tape and reel for…

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RFMW announces sales support for the S-Series “Test Bench in A Box” from Elite RF. The S-Series is a general-purpose, all-inclusive RF test bench in one enclosure. The RF equipment built into the S-series can be used “stand-alone” or with other external equipment. A compact and cost-effective alternative to bulky and expensive test equipment has been the dream of many RF engineers. Elite RF developed the S-Series, multi-purpose test equipment product, to be a workhorse with development goals to be as versatile as possible, have a small footprint and yet remain affordable compared to the typical RF test equipment on…

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RFMW announces design and sales support for a front-end module (FEM) from Qorvo. The Qorvo QPM5811, GaAs MMIC front-end module, is designed for 8.5 – 10.5 GHz radar and combines a T/R switch, LNA and PA. Receive path performance is 26 dB gain with 2.0 dB noise figure. The transmit path offers 30 dB small signal gain and 23.5 dB of large signal gain with 0.5 W pSat (45 % PAE). A 6 x 6 mm QFN surface mount package with over-mold encapsulant, coupled with high thermal conductivity die-attach process, allows the QPM5811 to perform well in high temperature environments.…

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RFMW announces design and sales support for precision-grade attenuators from Marki Microwave. Enabling the most demanding applications up to 110 GHz, these 10 dB, 1mm coaxial connectored attenuators are serialized for traceability and offered as ATN10-00110-2W (Male – Female) ATN10-00110 (Female to Female) and ATN10-00110-3W (Male to Male). Typical return loss is >15 dB over the entire bandwidth. With high performance and reliability, these fixed attenuators provide signal attenuation and VSWR matching for applications such as automotive radar, emerging 5G bands and wireless backhaul.

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RFMW announces design and sales support for NXP’s RapidRF front-end reference designs. Accelerating design time and prototyping for massive MIMO radio units, or small cell output devices or even as drivers for high-power macro base stations, RapidRF reference boards incorporate a T/R switch, circulator, Rx LNA, Rx linear amplifier, Tx path pre-drivers and an asymmetrical Doherty output. Also included are the TDD I2C logic controls for a complete 5G, TDD radio system RF front-end solution. Ideal for transmitters requiring 2.5 to 5 watts average at the antenna with approximately 8.5 dB PAR LTE/NR signals, RapidRF reference boards can be linearized…

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RFMW announces design and sales support for a high efficiency amplifier from Qorvo. The QPA9940 power amplifier supports small cells operating in the 2300 to 2400 MHz frequency range with up to 36 dBm P3dB and 34 dB of gain. DPD corrected ACPR is -50 dBc at +28 dBm output power. Drawing 100 mA from a 5 volt supply, the QPA9940 also supports DAS and mMIMO systems. Internally matched to 50 ohms at both input and output, it is offered in a 5×5 mm, SMT package.

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