TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura) announced today the development of a high power amplifier with InGaP HBT,1 the MGFS39E2527, for fixed-line WiMAX2 communication terminals in subscriber lines. The amplifier achieves top-level performance with high output power and low distortion. Sample shipment begins August 20, 2008.
Miniaturized Amplifiers Dramatically Improve Receiver Sensitivity of Picocell or Femtocell Base Stations SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Avago Technologies today announced its new family of MMIC low noise amplifiers LNAs designed for cellular and WiMAX infrastructure applications. Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial...
Ku- And Ka-Band PAs Offer Gain Above 27 dBTo satisfy both Ku-band very-small-aperture-terminal VSAT networks and emerging Ka-band broadband-satellite-communications applications, two new power amplifiers vow to deliver superior power and linearity performance. The Ku-band module boasts a minimum of 40 dB gain and 0.5 dB maximum gain flatness. Typical output...
* CSR and Nam Tai Electronic & Electrical Products NTEEP- Announced that CSR's RadioPro reference design has been selected by NTEEP for its Internet radio module. With full hardware and software components included, NTEEP's module features an embedded microstrip antenna and an integrated power amplifier and low-noise amplifier and allows...
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Powerwave Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PWAV) today announced that it has priced its previously announced private placement of $130 million aggregate principal amount of convertible subordinated notes due 2027. In addition, the initial purchaser of the notes exercised its option to purchase an additional $20 million principal amount...
ATLANTA -- Atlanta radio-frequency integrated circuit developer VT Silicon has received a $3.3 million round of financing from California-based Menlo Ventures. The funding will help the company design and produce prototypes of its new "intelligent power amplifier" chips for the next-generation of WiMax mobile devices. Based on silicon-germanium SiGe...
M/A-COM announces a high dynamic range, low noise, single-stage driver amplifier. The MAAMSS0070 features a broad frequency range, high linearity, low noise figure and exceptional reliability. This driver amplifier is suitable for general purpose applications in wireless infrastructure, such as mobile base station transceivers, cellular ...
Hittite Microwave Corporation introduces a high IP3 mixer with integrated LO amplifier, and two high linearity gain blocks which are suitable for CATV, Cellular/3G, Broadband, WiMAX and Fixed Wireless applications from DC to 4 GHz. The HMC615LP4E is a high IP3 mixer with integrated LO amplifier,...
Hittite Microwave Corporation introduces a high linearity InGaP HBT Gain Block MMIC amplifier, which is suitable for IF and RF applications from DC to 4.5 GHz, including Cellular/PCS/3G, Broadband, WiBro and WiMAX. The HMC475ST89E is an InGaP HBT Gain Block MMIC amplifier, which operates from DC...
RF Micro Devices, Inc. announces its Gallium Nitride GaN wideband power amplifier ICs for Tier 1 WiMAX cellular base station and Public Mobile Radio PMR customers. The family achieves exceptional performance in gain, output power and efficiency across a range of frequencies. The device provides 27...
Mimix Broadband, Inc. introduces a 3.5 to 8 GHz gallium arsenide GaAs monolithic microwave integrated circuit MMIC low noise amplifier, packaged in an RoHS-compliant QFN package. This device is processed in a highly repeatable, 0.25 micron optical pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor pHEMT process and includes...
Financing to Accelerate Production of Nujira's HAT[TM] Modulators that Deliver Higher Efficiency Power Amplifiers CAMBRIDGE, England -- Nujira, the company leading the development of advanced high efficiency power amplifier technology for the wireless industry, announced today that it has closed a $9.8 million Series B funding round. The round...
Sirenza Microdevices announced that the company's SZP series of 2-watt high-performance linear power amplifiers for WiMAX (802.16 d/e) and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) applications has been named as one of the top 10 most popular products for 2006 by RF Globalnet, a leading online trade publication for...
Freescale Semiconductor unveiled four general-purpose broadband RF amplifiers that deliver high gain and linearity over bandwidths from DC up to 6GHz. The amplifiers are well suited for applications ranging from WiMAX base stations to meter readers, set-top boxes, RFID readers, and any application requiring a cost-effective,...
WiMAX is an acronym for Worldwide lnteroperability for Microwave Access, a certification mark for products that pass conformity and interoperability tests for the IEEE 802.16 standards. The WiMAX Forum, formed in 2001, describes WiMAX as "a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband...
Skyworks Solutions announces the dynamic range of active mixers for mobile radio systems targeted at infrastructure, medical, scientific and industrial applications. These new broad frequency range solutions, which are part of Skyworks' Linear Products' portfolio, have achieved high linearity performance via a higher level of RF...
Z-Communications, Inc. announces a high-linearity power amplifier (5 W average) for emerging 802.16 WiMAX basestation applications. The first in a series of power amplifier products for WiMAX, the ZPA3436-5W operates over 3.4 to 3.6 GHz band with the typical gain of 46 dB and 37 dBm...
Mimix Broadband, Inc. has introduced its family of internally pre-matched power amplifiers that are designed for linear WiMAX applications at 700 MHz, 2.5 and 3.5 GHz. These devices are processed in a repeatable InGaP high voltage HBT process, and they include on-chip diodes for ESD protection....
Two "S" Series amplifiers from AR Worldwide RF/ Microwave Instrumentation were recently tested on a Rohde & Schwarz WiMAX test system to determine the quality of their reproduced signals. The AR Worldwide 50S1G4A (50W/0.8 to 4.2GHz) and the 10S4G11 (10W/ 4 to 0.6GHz) were measured at 3.7GHz and 5.8GHz and...