High linearity gain blocks boast leading linearity and saturated output power
These cost-effective and internally matched devices enable a number of general-market designs including small cells, cellular repeaters, LTE/WCDMA linear driver amplifiers, high power saturated power amplifier (PA) drivers and other wireless infrastructure applications over a wide range of frequencies.
The GRF2013 (2.7- to 8.0-V) and GRF3013 (industry-standard SOT-89 at 5.0 V) are broadband gain blocks with low broadband noise figure, industry-leading linearity and saturated output power. They exhibit outstanding return losses over 50 to 3,800 MHz. Configured as driver amplifiers or cascaded gain blocks, these devices offer potential for high levels of reuse within a design and across platforms.
Internally matched to 50 ohms, they only need external direct current blocks and a bias choke on the output. Custom tuning/evaluation board data and device s-parameters are available.
According to Alan Ake, vice president of applications and technical marketing at Guerrilla RF, “With their superior performance and lower cost, these devices introduce much needed competition in the high performance gain block marketplace. Our SOT-89 based GRF3013 offers a drop-in replacement to relatively expensive industry standard gain blocks. GRF2013, with its extended high voltage capability, serves as an outstanding saturated driver amplifier for broadband gallium nitride PA devices.”
Market research firm Research and Markets contends that the overall wireless network infrastructure market will witness tremendous growth over the coming years. At a compound annual growth rate of over 5 percent, the market will account for over $104 billion in annual spending by the end of 2020.
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