Peregrine's High-Power RF Switch Line
Peregrine Semiconductor has announced its new line of high-power RF switches for the mobile radio market. Featuring a 50 Watt 1dB compression point, the PE42510A single-pole double-throw (SPDT) and PE42650A single-pole triple-throw (SP3T) UltraCMOS RFICs deliver unprecedented linearity with ultra low insertion loss at high power.
“The demands for highly rugged wireless applications are increasing every day,” state Mark Schrepferman, marketing director for Peregrine’s communications and industrial RFIC product line. “The ability of these new Peregrine devices to handle ultra-high power levels and still deliver exceptional RF performance is unprecedented in the industry. Until now, these specs could not be achieved with a single solid state broadband switch and could only be met with much higher priced solutions achieved through re-banding narrow band solutions requiring significant board space. Now, designers do not have to trade off insertion loss or linearity for high power handling,” he added.
Additional features of the new high-power switches include a 10 Watt