Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Maxim Integrated Products | Subject: MAX2659
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 October 2007
Low-noise amp boosts gain in location
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With the industry's highest gain and lowest noise-figure among SiGe BiCMOS LNAs, the MAX2659 is ideal for a wide range of low-cost consumer applications.
New from Maxim Integrated Products, the MAX2659 is a high-gain low-noise amplifier for GPS, Galileo and Glonass applications Designed using Maxim's advanced, low-power SiGe BiCMOS process, this device achieves a very high 20.5dB gain and an ultralow noise figure of 0.8dB while maximising the input-referred 1dB compression point and third-order intercept point at -12 and -2dBm, respectively
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Consequently, having the industry's highest gain and lowest noise-figure among SiGe BiCMOS LNAs, the MAX2659 is ideal for a wide range of low-cost consumer applications, including automotive navigation, asset tracking, cellular handsets, portable navigation devices (PNDs), digital cameras, laptops and ultramobile personal computers.
The MAX2659 operates from a +1.6 to +3.3V single supply and consumes only 4mA.
To further maximise battery life, it reduces the supply current to less than 1uA in shutdown mode.
Available in a tiny, 1.5 x 1.0 x 0.75mm, leadless, 6-pin microDFN package, the MAX2659 is fully specified over the -40 to +85C temperature range.
Prices start at US $0.70 (1000-up).
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