High performance power amplifiers designed for 5G

26th February 2018

Lanna Deamer

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MACOM Technology Solutions has announced its new MAGM series of GaN-on-Si-based MMIC Power Amplifiers (PAs) optimised for massive MIMO antenna systems targeted for 5G wireless basestation infrastructure.

Providing wideband performance simultaneously covering bands 42 and 43 with flat power and power efficiency compared to legacy LDMOS technology. MACOM’s new MAGM PA Series delivers GaN performance at LDMOS-like cost structures at scaled volume production levels in fully integrated MMIC packaging for simplified, cost effective 5G basestation manufacturing.

MAGM Series MMIC PAs are specifically tailored for mainstream 5G basestation architectures, meeting and surpassing the power density and thermal requirements of 64-element massive MIMO antenna arrays, with a pathway to exceeding the performance of LDMOS technology, at scaled volume level production cost structures and supply capacities that can’t be achieved with competing GaN-on-SiC technology.

Designed with MACOM proprietary wideband circuit topology, the PAs meet the stringent 5G TDD linearity requirement using off the shelf Digital-Pre-Distortion (DPD) systems. Compared to earlier generation multichip-format GaN-on-Si modules, costs are further lowered through a reduction in packaging and design complexity.

Leveraging this suitable performance and cost with the capacity scale manufacturing afforded by MACOM’s partnership with ST Microelectronics, MACOM’s GaN-on-Si solutions are expected to be able to significantly improve customers’ time to market.

“MACOM’s new MAGM Series PAs combine the unique performance and cost benefits inherent to GaN-on-Si technology with the MMIC packaging efficiencies needed for commercial volume-scale 5G basestation manufacturing and deployment,” said Amer Droubi, Director Product Marketing, MACOM.

“Our continuous innovation in this domain sets a strong foundation for next-gen multifunction GaN-on-Si MMICs targeted to enable fully-integrated front-end modules for massive MIMO 5G basestation architectures.”

Mobile World Congress (MWC 2018) attendees are invited to visit MACOM at Hall 8.1, Room #CC 8.15 from 26th February-1st March in Barcelona, Spain, to speak with our wireless infrastructure experts about MACOM’s enabling technologies for 5G.