Microwave Technology Inc., an IXYS company, has added two new broadband general purpose amplifiers to its popular line of MPS amplifier modules. MwT’s two new amplifiers, MPS-032701A-82 and MPS-0425A9D-82, are suited for those applications that require medium power, high gain and high linearity. The MPS-032701A-82 operates from 300 MHz to 2700 MHz, and the MPS-0425A9D-82 operates from 400 MHz to 2500 MHz. The MPS-032701A-82 is a fully matched GaAs FET amplifier in a ceramic surface-mount package. It is designed for digital communication applications and as a buffer driver amplifier for a local oscillator mixer stage or as a wideband variable gain amplifier. Its high gain (20 dB), excellent linearity (+34 dBm for IP3), high P1dB (+20 dBm), and high efficiency at a single 5 V bias make it an attractive replacement for earlier TO-8 type modules used in military radio systems.

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Likewise, the MPS-0425A9D-82 is a high-linearity (+42 dBm for IP3), high P1dB (+25 dBm) modular amplifier designed to meet the ultra-linear transmitter driver requirements of wireless base station infrastructure applications such as 2G, 2.5G, and 3G, and standards such as GSM, TDMA, CDMA, Edge, cdma2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and UMTS. Additionally, these amplifiers can also be used for 802.11, 802.16 WiMAX base station applications, as well as point-to-point wireless communication links.