RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a 9 – 10GHz, 20 watt, GaN amplifier targeted towards weather and marine radar applications. Qorvo’s TGA2624-SM provides a saturated output power of 43dBm with 18dBm input. Power added efficiency is >40% and large signal gain is 25dB. For non-saturated applications, small signal gain is >34dB. The TGA2624-SM requires a 28V bias capable of 365mA and comes in a 7x7mm air-cavity QFN package.
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RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for Qorvo’s QPM1000, an integrated, 2-20GHz limiter/low noise amplifier. Capable of surviving up to 4W of RF input, the QPM1000 offers 17dB of gain with a P1dB of >17dBm. Mid-band noise figure is rated at 2dB. Offered for communication systems, radar and EW applications, AGC is >30dB. Qorvo offers this device in a 6x5x1.7mm air cavity QFN package. VD = 5V and IDQ = 100mA.
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a front-end module (FEM) designed for GPS and GLONASS applications. TST’s TN0081A contains a high performance pre-SAW filter, low noise amplifier (LNA) and post-SAW filter providing 18.5dB of in-band gain and very high out-of-band rejection of unwanted signals. Relative to the center frequency of 1575MHz, rejection is 85dBc from 704 to 915MHz and 75dBc from 1710 to 1980MHz. Noise figure is only 1.6dB typical for 1575MHz applications and 1.7dB typical for 1597-1606MHz applications. The TN0081A draws only 3.3mA from a 1.8 to 2.8V supply and is offered in a very small 2.5×2.5mm…
RFMW, Ltd. announces a general educational White Paper from Southwest Antennas for business professionals and technical staff titled “Modern Co-Site RF Interference Issues and Mitigation Techniques”. RF co-site interference has become a major issue with the proliferation of antennas, particularly in dense urban areas. This paper offers a practical perspective for those using or specifying new RF wireless systems about what RF co-site interference is, where it comes from, and some of the most common techniques and tools that are available in today’s market to solve these RF co-site interference problems. As their franchised distributor, RFMW supports specification and selection…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a 7-bit digital attenuator from Qorvo. The QPC6713 features high linearity over the entire 31.75dB gain control range in 0.25dB steps. Qorvo offers this DSA for point-to-point radio, 2G through 4G base stations, WiFi transceiver and other applications within its 50 to 6000MHz frequency range. Overshoot free transient switching performance is a highlight of this attenuator along with a highly linear input IP3 of 55dBm. Switching speed is rated at 50nSec typical utilizing a serial control interface. Requiring only a single 3 to 5V supply, the QPC6713 is housed in a 3x3mm…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for high power chip attenuators supporting multiple applications including mobile networks, broadcast, high power amplifiers, isolators/circulators, military designs and instrumentation. EMC Technology series 83A7046XX attenuators offer high power handling of 20W CW (200W peak) in a small, surface mount footprint. With a wide attenuation offering of 1 through 10dB in 1dB increments along with 20 and 30dB values, EMC provides attenuators in various materials including Alumina, Aluminum Nitride, Beryllium Oxide and CVD diamond. Maximum VSWR is 1.22:1. EMC Technology series 83A7046XX attenuators provide a low cost, stable, passive solution for high power attenuation…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for Qorvo’s TGL2226-SM, a 6-bit, digital attenuator. With frequency coverage from 100MHz to 15GHz, the TGL2226-SM provides 0.5dB least significant bit size for a range of 31.5dB. Serving diverse markets such as radar, electronic warfare, satellite and point-to-point communication systems, this digital step attenuator is offered in a 3x3mm QFN package for surface mount designs. Control voltage is -3 to -5 volts.
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a pair of Peregrine Semiconductor, high frequency, Silicon on Insulator (SOI) switches. The PE42525 and PE426525 are SPDT switches operating from 9KHz to 60GHz. Both switches offer fast, 8nS switching time and high input linearity of 48dBm IIP3. The PE42525 finds applications in test & measurement, microwave backhaul and communications systems with industry standard, -40 to +105 degrees C temperature ranges. The PE426525 is targeted towards harsh industrial applications requiring extended temperature support from -55 to +125 degrees C. Fast switching time makes either switch ideal for radar applications. Typical insertion loss…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for the 392P0000, 12 Amp pulsed switch from XSYSTOR, Inc. The 392P0000 MOS type switch is placed between the drain choke of the GaN transistor and power supply. It works with XSYSTOR 100 & 200 Series controllers to protect, operate, and modulate the GaN device. The unit is rated for drain voltages from 28 to 80V with very-low Rds ON. The I/O ports of this tiny switch are castellated for solder joints at 0.05” pitch, and the module can be placed in any direction of RF flow for easy integration of GaN amplifiers…
RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for a high isolation, absorptive switch. The Qorvo RFSW6024 supports WIFi, LTE, 4G and general purpose wireless infrastructure from 5 to 6000MHz. This SPDT switch offers 60dB of isolation at 2GHz and IIP3 of 66dBm. Absorptive, it can handle a max CW input of 36dBm. Insertion loss is only 0.75dB and switching speed is 250nS. Qorvo offers the RFSW6024 in a 4x4mm QFN package.