Peregrine Announces 50-Ohm Switch For Broadband RF Applications

San Diego -- Peregrine Semiconductor announced availability of the RoHS-compliant PE42555 50-Ohm switch for high-performance broadband RF applications such as cellular infrastructure, WiMAX and high-precision RF applications. Manufactured on Peregrine's HaRP-enhanced UltraCMOS technology, the Single-Pole, Double-Throw (SPDT) device operates with linearity from DC to 6.0 GHz. A proprietary design feature enables the device to eliminate the phase and insertion loss drift that occurs after a switching event.

"The PE42555 is Peregrine's commercial version of a RF IC designed for a large strategic customer in a technically challenging application. They chose UltraCMOS for its ability to deliver unprecedented linearity up to 6 GHz, while maintaining all the extraordinary performance results in isolation, stability and ease-of-use," said Rodd Novak, Peregrine's Vice-President of Marketing. "By making this device available to the general RF population, design problems will be solved," he added.

The device also delivers low insertion loss (0.65 dB @ 3.5 GHz and 0.90 dB @ 6 GHz); high IIP3 (>50 dBm DC-6 GHz); P1dB compression point of 34 dBm (DC-6 GHz); and high isolation (27 dB @ 3.5 GHz and 21 dB @ 6.0 GHz).

SOURCE: Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation