Peregrine’s New SP5T RF Switch Offers High Isolation for Infrastructure Apps

The HaRP-enhanced 50-Ohm switch features five symmetric, absorptive RF ports. On-chip CMOS decode logic facilitates a three-pin low-voltage CMOS control interface and an optional external Vss feature (VssEXT). In wireless infrastructure applications, the SP5T design allows up to four power amplifiers to share a common Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) feedback receiver path with an additional RF path for calibration, enabling a single, low-distortion, high-isolation switch to replace multiple SPDT switches.

“Wireless infrastructure equipment manufacturers no longer need to build costly SPDT-based switch matrices to achieve their high isolation switching needs,” said Mark Schrepferman, director of marketing for High-Performance Solutions business unit at Peregrine. “Being able to reduce component count and cost is an ideal solution for today’s high-performance infrastructure applications,” he added.

The new absorptive switch delivers market-leading RF performance across a frequency range of 450 MHz to 4 GHz: IIP3 of +58 dBm, IIP2 of +95 dBm, and Insertion Loss of 1.6 dB (450 MHz). The switch handles maximum +33 dBm input power (across the range) with world-class ESD tolerance of 3.5 kV HBM.