Avago Releases DC-80 GHz Traveling Wave Amplifier for Microwave Radio Systems and Satellite VSAT Applications

Avago Technologies, a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, announced it has introduced an ultra broadband traveling wave amplifier (TWA) for digital communications applications that operate in the 30KHz to 80GHz frequency band.

Avago said the AMMC-5025 amplifier provides 8 dB of small signal gain and gain flatness of +/-0.7 dB along with better than 10 dB input and output return loss for use in Test and Measurement equipment, Radar Warning Receivers, Wideband Communications and Surveillance systems, and Point-to-Point Radios.

The AMMC-5025 has a gain slope control feature and an adjustable gain control feature that allows over 25 dB of dynamic range. The performance features of this TWA makes it ideal for use in instrumentation and MMIC applications. Moreover, with a miniature die size of 1.6 mm by 1.0 mm, the AMMC-5025 amplifier integrates into a range of RF/Micromodules and subsystems.

Features of the solution include:

- 50 ohm match on input and output

- ESD protection, 70V MM and 300V HBM

- Typical performance (Vd = 5V, Idsq = 0.1A)

- P-1dB: 15dBm @ 40 GHz

- Input/Output return loss of -10dB/-15dB

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