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Switch IC Offers Broadband Operation To 3.8 GHz

Sept. 12, 2007

WiMAX is inspiring new designs across the industry. A 10-W, double-pole, four-throw (DP4T), gallium-arsenide (GaAs), monolithic-microwave-integrated-circuit (MMIC) switch has now been spawned to help designers integrate WiMAX into customer premise equipment (CPE). The UPG2181T5R operates to 3.8 GHz with control voltage of +3.0/0 V. Insertion loss is 0.8 dB at 2.3 to 2.7 GHz and 1.0 dB at 3.3 to 8.0 GHz. The switch reaches 1-dB compression at +40 dBm power. It hits receive 1-dB compression at +35 dBm. Switching speed is 250 ns. The UPG2181T5R can switch up to four antennas between transmit and receive. An on-board CMOS decoder permits switching between eight transmit and receive states using only three control inputs. In addition, the UPG2181T5R provides internal 50-W non-reflective port termination. When the switch is busy in the receive mode, the idle transmit ports are automatically connected to a 50-W load.

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Nancy Friedrich | RF Product Marketing Manager for Aerospace Defense, Keysight Technologies

Nancy Friedrich is RF Product Marketing Manager for Aerospace Defense at Keysight Technologies. Nancy Friedrich started a career in engineering media about two decades ago with a stint editing copy and writing news for Electronic Design. A few years later, she began writing full time as technology editor at Wireless Systems Design. In 2005, Nancy was named editor-in-chief of Microwaves & RF, a position she held (along with other positions as group content head) until 2018. Nancy then moved to a position at UBM, where she was editor-in-chief of Design News and content director for tradeshows including DesignCon, ESC, and the Smart Manufacturing shows.