Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Analog Devices | Subject: AD6633 and AD6636
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 March 2004
Up-convertor cuts basestation power
budget
The AD6633 is a digital up-convertor featuring breakthrough technology claimed to significantly reduce output power requirements for 3G wireless basestation power amplifiers.
The AD6633 is a digital up-convertor featuring breakthrough technology claimed to significantly reduce output power requirements for 3G wireless basestation power amplifiers The AD6633's innovative VersaCrest crest reduction engine enables optimum baseband-to-IF (intermediate frequency) signal conversion by anticipating and reducing power peaks earlier in the signal chain
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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