3/6-ch RF splitter operates up to 2 GHz

Providing a highly linear power splitter for broadband RF or video signals, the PS12000 3/6-channel dc-to-2-GHz device is built on the company’s 20-GHz complementary bipolar process. This broadband RF power device can provide either three differential output signals or six single-ended outputs.

The input signal is initially boosted through an ultra-high-linearity 6-dB gain buffer before being split to the three differential output drivers. Two of these output drivers include a 0 to –40-dB AGC stage allowing signal levels to be adjusted as required or effectively switched off. Offered in a 28-lead MLP package, the PS1200 also features a high linearing of 20 dBm IIP3 and 50 dBm IIP2, and a noise figure of 8 dB, and a gain tracking error of less than 1 dB. (Contact sales for pricing — samples available now; prod qty, April 2011.)

By Christina Nickolas Plessey Semiconductors , Plymouth , U.K.
Sales 858-324 1086

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