Articles by Richardson RFPD Inc.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a series of high-power SMT attenuators from ATC. The AT0603 Series provides virtually flat loss over a broad frequency spectrum and is ideal where low noise, low inductance and low parasitic capacitance is required. The film metallization provides stable characteristics over temperature and time.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a family of evaluation boards from GaN Systems Inc. The GS665XXX-EVBDB daughterboard evaluation kits consist of two GaN Systems 650 V GaN enhancement-mode HEMTs (E-HEMTs) and all necessary circuits, including half-bridge gate drivers, isolated power supplies and optional heatsink to form a functional half-bridge power stage. 

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for an image reject mixer from Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation. The PE41901 is a passive, double-balanced Ku-band image reject mixer with high dynamic range performance and high local oscillator (LO) isolation capable of operation up to 19 GHz. It can be used as an upconverter or a downconverter. 

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability of a integrated, dual RF transceiver from Analog Devices, Inc. ADI's AD9371 is a highly-integrated, wideband RF transceiver offering dual channel transmitters and receivers, integrated synthesizers, and digital signal-processing functions. With a tuning range of 300 MHz to 6 GHz, 250 MHz signal bandwidth, and power consumption of less than 5 W under standard operating conditions.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a new bi-directional surface-mount coupler from Innovative Power Products, Inc. The IPP-8036 is one of the featured surface-mount products from IPP’s full line of dual directional couplers. It is a 300 W, 50 dB dual directional coupler that operates from 20 MHz to 1000 MHz.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and design support capabilities for an UltraCMOS® FET driver from Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation. The PE29100 integrated high-speed driver is designed to control the gates of external power devices, such as GaN Systems’ E-HEMT gallium nitride FETs. The outputs of the PE29100 are capable of providing switching transition speeds in the sub-nanosecond range for hard switching applications up to 33 MHz.

Richardson RFPD, Inc. announced the availability and  support capabilities for four GaN on SiC high-electron-mobility transistors from Qorvo.  The QPD1000 is a 15 W (P3dB), 50 Ω-input matched discrete GaN on SiC HEMT, the QPD1003 is a 500 W (P3dB) internally-matched discrete GaN on SiC HEMT and the 125 W (P3dB) QPD1008L and 65 W (P3dB) QPD1015L are wideband unmatched discrete GaN on SiC HEMTs.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability for an ultra capacitor cell from Maxwell Technologies.  The BCAP3000P300K04 is Maxwell’s first 3-volt cell and an addition to the K2 family of products. The 3 V cell provides higher energy density in the same industry standard 60 mm cylindrical design and an electrostatic storage capability that can cycle a million charges and discharges without performance degradation.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a 20 W SPDT switch from MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. The MASW-011071 is a terminated silicon PIN diode SPDT switch designed for X-band high-power, high-performance applications. The switch is assembled in a lead-free 7 mm, 44-lead PQFN plastic package and handles greater than 20 W of continuous wave (CW) power.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for two new monolithic phase and amplitude controllers from Peregrine Semiconductor Corp.