The MASW-000825-12770T HMIC PIN diode switch offers the smallest high-power solution in the industry, according to M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. The 20-W broadband SPDT switch for WiMAX, LTE, and other high-linearity, high-power applications comes in a 3- by 3-mm PQFN package.

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The switch offers 50-MHz to 6-GHz operation with an excellent isolation-to-insertion-loss ratio for both transmit and receive states. Specifically, the device achieves almost 30 dB of associated insertion loss and 64-dBm IIP3 for the 2.3-GHz to 2.7-GHz WiMAX band while reliably handling up to 20 W of CW power.

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