Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: AMMC series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 July 2004
MMICs are competitive for basestation
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A new family of ten cost-competitive millimetre-wave ICs includes frequency doublers, low-noise amplifiers and power amplifiers covering the 6 to 45GHz frequency range.
A new family of ten cost-competitive millimetre-wave ICs includes frequency doublers, low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) and power amplifiers covering the 6 to 45GHz frequency range These millimetre-wave ICs fill many of the most critical active radio-frequency requirements for point-to-point radio link equipment used to connect basestations and other cost-sensitive commercial communications systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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MMICs for cost-sensitive RF and optical networking
A new series of millimetre-wave and microwave monolithic ICs offers low-cost and superior performance for a wide range of DC to 50GHz RF and 10 to 40Gbit/s telecomms applications.
Expansion for millimetre-wave and MMIC family
Available now is the second group of ICs in the AMMC series of low-cost pHEMT millimetre-wave and microwave monolithic integrated circuits.
They provide performance equal to or better than competing devices now on the market, and complement Agilent's growing family of millimetre-wave products.
The new AMMC series millimetre-wave ICs, from Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group, are fabricated using a 0.15-micron pHEMT process on 6in wafers.
The process and the wafer fab are both optimised to provide excellent performance and highly reliable devices at reduced production costs.
These newest additions to the AMMC series product family consist of ten devices, which include two frequency doublers, three low-noise amplifiers and five power amplifiers.
The AMMC-6120 and AMMC-6140 frequency doublers operate over the 6-20 and 16-40GHz output frequency range, and incorporate amplification.
The AMMC-6220, AMMC-6231 and AMMC-6241 low-noise amplifiers cover 6-20, 18-31 and 30-43GHz, with 21-23dB typical gain, 2.2 to 2.6dB noise figures, and +20dBm third-order intercept points.
The AMMC-6345, AMMC-6420, AMMC-6425, AMMC-6430 and AMMC 6440 power amplifiers cover 6-18, 18-27, 20-47, 26-34 and 38-43GHz, providing power outputs from 24 to 30dBm (1dB gain compression) with typical gains ranging from 15 to 20dB and third-order intercept points ranging from 32 to 39dBm.
Samples of the AMMC series millimetre-wave ICs are available now through Agilent's direct sales channel.
Production quantities and full availability through Agilent's worldwide distribution partners is expected in the fourth quarter of 2004. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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