RFMW announces design and sales support for a high-performance, high power, Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) band-pass filter. The Qorvo QPQ1029 exhibits low loss in B1/B3 uplink applications and high out-of-band attenuation of unwanted signals (>40 dB). The QPQ1029 has excellent passive intermodulation performance (PIM) of >-112 dBm. Matched to 50 Ohms and capable of handling 29 dBm of input power, it is packaged in a 3 x 3 mm SMT for base station infrastructure, small cells and repeaters.
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RFMW announces design and sales support for a power amplifier module from NXP. The A3M39TL039 is a 28 V, 50-ohm matched integrated Doherty LDMOS Multi-Chip Module covering the cellular infrastructure bands between 3700-3980 MHz. With a 47 dBm (50 W) peak power at 39% power added efficiency and a dual-stage gain of 27 dB, it comes in a compact 10 x 6 mm LGA over-molded plastic package.
RFMW announces design and sales support for a multiband Wi-Fi antenna solution from Cirocomm Corporation. The DCAH0S17 is a high efficiency antenna designed to cover both the traditional 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band and the entire Wi-Fi 6 and 6E bands from UNII 1 to UNII 8. This corner mount monopole offers a compact, lightweight solution with uniform directivity and is highly cost effective. Cirocomm and RFMW offer a high level of support during design implementation of the DCAH0S17 with antenna optimization services to maximize performance based on customer specific PCB and packaging needs. Technical assistance is recommended at the earliest…
RFMW announces design and sales support for a dual path amplifier from Qorvo. The QPD0011 is an asymmetric, dual-path, discrete GaN on SiC HEMT in a DFN package operating from 3.4 to 3.6 GHz. With 15 dB of gain, this device can deliver an average power of 15 W in a Doherty configuration or a Psat of 50 dBm at 3.5 GHz. Operating from a 48V bias, the QPD0011 has applications in 5G massive MIMO, microcell and small cell base stations.
RFMW announces design and sales support for Smiths Interconnect TSX Series chip attenuators with extended frequency range. The TSX series chip attenuators span DC to 50 GHz with 1 to 3 Watts of input power handling capability based on individual device attenuation values as follows: 0-1 dB attenuators are rated at 3 W, 2-3 dB rated at 2 W, 4-20 dB rated at 1 W. Q-band performance addresses new markets and applications including instrumentation, radar, satellite and 5G systems. In transmitters, low VSWR increases output power potential while the small, 0604 package size, ideal for pick and place manufacturing, reduces…
RFMW announces design and sales support for a versatile, SiGe driver amplifier from NXP. The BTS6201U amplifier delivers high linearity with 27 dBm typical P1dB output power in its frequency range of 2300 to 4200 MHz. A dual-stage, single-ended design provides 31 dB of gain and is matched to 50 Ohms with integrated bias control, supporting fast switching for TDD systems. Class AB drain efficiency is 20% and signal bandwidth (IBW) is 200 MHz from this 5 V device. Typical applications are high-linearity pre-drivers in cellular infrastructures, such as bands B40, n41, B42, n77, n78 and C-band. Offered in a…
Radar receivers require low noise front ends to be able to detect targets at a long range. Simultaneously, they are frequently operated in an environment where a very high-power transmitter (a radar transmitter) will periodically leak into the receiver path, potentially damaging the receiver. A classic example of this is when a plane flies past a high-power radar transmitter, leading to damaging radiation levels for the plane’s receiver. This damage can be prevented by using a limiter. Figure 1: High power transmitters can damage high-sensitivity receivers An ideal RF limiter is a device that passes RF signals below a certain…
RFMW announces design and sales support for a CATV step attenuator for Qorvo. The QPC4614 is a 75Ω, 6-bit, digital step attenuator (DSA) that features high linearity over the entire 31.5 dB gain control range in 0.5 dB steps. Spanning 5 to 2000 MHz, at 1000 MHz, insertion loss is only of 1.2 dB and IIP3 is 65 dBm. The QPC4614 features three modes of control: serial, latched parallel, and direct parallel programming. Patented circuit architecture provides overshoot-free transient switching performance. Offered in a 20-pin 4.0 x 4.0 mm QFN package.
RFMW announces design and sales support for a Southwest Antennas’ dual-band antenna. The 1055-404 is directional MIMO sector antenna for use with 2 or 3 port radio systems. The antenna has three, N-Type female RF ports, each feeding its own discrete antenna element, with 2 elements operating at 1.7 to 2.5 GHz, and the third port operating at 1.35 to 1.9 GHz in the following configuration: 1 slant right (1.7 to 2.5 GHz) 1 vertical (1.35 to 1.9 GHz) 1 slant left (1.7 to 2.5 GHz) Slant and vertical polarization offer polarization diversity, preventing interference when multiple streams are used.…
RFMW announces design and sales support for high frequency power limiters from Marki Microwave. Ideal for protecting sensitive components and for applications requiring high linearity, Marki’s HLM-40PSM, GaAs, Schottky diode, signal limiter provides 11 to 19 dBm flat leakage with low insertion loss and low return loss from DC through Ka band. Typical 1 dB compression point is 14 dBm. Power handling is 9.5 Watts peak or 2.5 Watts CW. Also available as wire bondable die or a connectorized module.