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Nujira and TriQuint Semiconductor have announced the successful integration of the new TriQuint TriPower™ PA with Nujira Coolteq.h envelope tracking power modulator technology to create what is claimed to be the world’s most efficient 2.1 GHz PA for cellular base stations. 2.1 GHz is a band widely licensed for...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the availability of an NXP Semiconductors’ design kit for RF small-signal products within Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS). The design kit provides NXP’s customers with easy access to comprehensive libraries of models within ADS for NXP’s RF wideband devices, diodes, function FETs, dual-gate MOSFETs and...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , an RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced it is the market leader powering more WLAN solutions than any other company in today’s smartphones. TriQuint’s gallium arsenide (GaAs) based WLAN solutions offer faster data exchange rates, extended battery life, and better amplification of weak...

Mimix Asia , a supplier of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) for microwave and millimeter-wave applications, introduced a 2.7 to 3.8 GHz GaAs MMIC power amplifier that has 32 dB large signal gain and 41.5 dBm saturated output power. Identified as XP5002-BD, this device includes on-chip gate bias circuitry...

Lime Microsystems , the multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver IC company, is collaborating with Percello Ltd. , an Israeli fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated and low-cost digital baseband for UMTS and LTE networks, to develop a flexible high-performance reference platform for femtocell designs. The reference platform combines Percello's PRC6xxx...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced its 23 rd product line, comparators. Six new, high speed comparators deliver up to 20 Gbps speed at 50 percent lower power consumption compared with traditional comparator solutions. A unique combination of...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a supplier of high performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, announced the new PE42556 single-pole double-throw (SPDT) RF switch. The PE42556, designed on Peregrine’s UltraCMOS™ silicon-on-sapphire process technology, features excellent broadband RF performance from 9 kHz up to 13.5 GHz without gate or phase...