One billion STeP5
21 February 2012
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation has shipped its billionth CMOS-on-sapphire RFIC.
The milestone was achieved with a new SP8T RF Switch, one of several new high-throw-count switches designed on the latest UltraCMOS process technology version, STeP5.
The technology innovation associated with the STeP5 release has driven demand from cellular handset manufacturers and global customers for UltraCMOS RFIC products to a record number of devices per week.
The 4G/LTE network has introduced significant challenges to the RF Front-End (RFFE) of the cellular handset, including a fragmented RF spectrum, which causes co-existence issues between bands and other standards such as connectivity (GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth). Lack of global frequency alignment has resulted in 28 LTE bands being identified in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile standards specification (3GPP TS 36.101 V10).
Peregrine’s latest family of high-throw-count RF Switches includes the PE426151, PE426152 and PE426153 SP10T devices, and the PE426821 and PE426851 SP8T devices with integrated MIPI, SPI or GPIO interface options. These new devices support 4G LTE RFFE linearity and insertion loss demands over all conditions.
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