New Products

WiMAX PAs for Ultra-Efficient Systems
TriQuint’s AP561 and AP562 amplifiers deliver greater than 1W linear power at 2.5% EVM, offering 13% PAE to meet the needs of ultra-efficient systems. The AP561 offers 12 dB gain across the 2.3-2.9 GHz band; the AP562 offers 12 dB gain across the 3.3-3.8 GHz band. The high output linear power and efficiency of these devices make them ideal for outdoor customer premise equipment (CPE) applications in WiMAX systems.

WiMAX PAs for BTS Applications
TriQuint’s AH314 and AH315 amplifiers provide very low EVM (error vector magnitude) under high back-off power operating conditions while also offering very good gain flatness: less that 0.2 dB over 100 MHz. The AH314 is a two-stage amplifier with 23 dB gain operating from 2.3-2.9 GHz; the AM315 offers 25 dB gain from 3.3-3.8 GHz. The AH314 / 315 are ideal for WiMAX base transceiver station (BTS) applications requiring linearity margin prior to final stage amplifiers within the system.

GaN Amplifiers
TriQuint’s family of GaN discrete die-level power amplifiers serves a wide range of base station, network infrastructure, defense and aerospace applications. The devices, TGF2023-xx, deliver up to 100W in total output power and offer 55% power added efficiency (PAE) for energy savings and smaller carbon footprints. Visit www.triquint.com for data sheet information. For additional details about GaN discrete devices, contact: grant.wilcox@tqs.com or phone: +1.972.994.3939.

GaN Foundry
TriQuint’s gallium nitride (GaN) Foundry is open for wafer starts in September 2008.  Dr. Dr. Gailon Brehm, Product Marketing Director for TriQuint encourages companies interested in GaN designs to meet with TriQuint as a step toward production.  The new service will target communications applications through the Ku frequency band.  GaN-based amplifiers offer inherent advantages compared to other solid-state amplifier technologies including up to 2.5-times the power density of high voltage GaAs devices.  For additional details about TriQuint’s gallium nitride Foundry services, contact: lisa.howard@tqs.com or phone: +1.972.994.3985.

HV-HBT: AP631 / AP632
Two new 2-stage, 28V HBT RF transistors for 3G/4G base station applications are ideal as pre-drivers / drivers in typical BTS or repeater amplifier designs.  These devices were created in TriQuint’s San Jose, CA design center, the former WJ Communications campus. TriQuint’s new AP631 (4W) and AP632 (7W) offer better efficiency and high linearity for next-generation multi-carrier 3G mobile infrastructure, saving power while incorporating two stages into a single package, which can save up to 12 sq. cm. of PCB area.  Samples will be available in July 2008.  Contact TriQuint Product Marketing at: tuan.nguyen@tqs.com or +1.408.577.6318 for details, or visit www.triquint.com.

New Gain Block Family
The need for greater efficiency continues to drive networks applications and TriQuint is pleased to announce a new addition to its 5V gain block amplifier family.  The WJA1021 is highly efficient to help reduce electrical consumption.  The device also requires no external matching components typical to other solutions and can reduce customers’ bill-of-materials.  The WJA1021 provides +37 dBm OIP3 at 2 GHz and is available in a standard SOT-89 package.  It is part of TriQuint’s cascadable gain block family, offering designers flexibility and performance options tailored to individual needs.  View data sheet at: www.triquint.com/prodserv/more_info/default.aspx?prod_id=WJA1021

Highly Linear Converter/Mixer
TriQuint’s new ML485 offers highly linear performance with an integrated gallium arsenide (GaAs) mixer and LO driver amplifier, all in an ultra-small MSOP-8 package.  The device is also lead-free and RoHS compliant – making it a ‘green’ product for next-generation designs.  It offers market-leading linearity (up to 38dBm Input IP3) and integrated design for cellular and 3G/4G wireless base stations and similar applications.  The ML485 integrates a LO buffer amplifier on-chip to provide for operations directly from standard frequency synthesizers, requiring 0 dBm drive, drawing only 40mA of current.  View data sheet at: http://www.triquint.com/prodserv/more_info/default.aspx?prod_id=ML485

TQP13-N GaAs Foundry Process
Building high performance millimeter wave applications has never been more cost-effective.  TQP13-N incorporates optical lithography to greatly reduce the cost of production relative to similar processes based on E-beam gate lithography.  Click here for more information: http://www.tqs.com/prodserv/foundry/docs/TQP13-N.pdf

TQBiHEMT GaAs Foundry Process
TQBiHEMT integrates E/D pHEMT and HBT onto a single chip, thus reducing part count, saving board space and improving overall system costs.  This process, well suited for applications with high data rates and frequencies, offers high levels of integration and functionality to accommodate today’s increasingly demanding applications.  Click here for more information: http://www.tqs.com/prodserv/foundry/docs/TQBiHEMT.pdf

Project JumpStart
Project JumpStart offers wireless start-ups and new customers of TriQuint and AWR an affordable, low-risk means of bringing wireless design prototypes to market.  Eligible customers will receive a free 90-day lease of AWR’s flagship high-frequency design software, Microwave Office® design suite, and a reduced-rate prototype development quick-turn (PDQ) shared-wafer foundry run using TriQuint’s TQPED 0.5µm pHEMT process.  Click here for more information: http://www.tqs.com/investors/press/dspPressRelease.cfm?pressid=312

Ultra Low Loss/High Rejection GPS SAW
TriQuint released a new ultra low loss filter with extraordinary rejection that expands our already extensive selection of SAW filters in use today by a majority of the world’s leading makers of personal navigation devices (PNDs).  TriQuint supplies filters to three of the four largest PND manufacturers in the world, shipping more than 52 million GPS SAWs in 2007.  The TriQuint portfolio encompasses the needs of all popular GPS chipset design approaches.  For further device details, please e-mail TriQuint Product Marketing: jraha@tqs.com.

Next-Generation Cable TV Amplifier
The TGA2806-SM builds on the successful heritage of TriQuint’s TGA2803-SM, offering excellent performance for cable infrastructure applications as a gain block / transimpedance amplifier. The TGA2806-SM offers high output and excellent linearity. It comes in a standard 5x5mm QFN package for highly-efficient thermal operation. The device can replace two similar amplifiers in conventional designs, thus reducing overall system costs and eliminating the need for the extra matching circuitry while freeing PC board space. Contact TriQuint Product Marketing for details: markus.behet@tqs.com or visit www.triquint.com.

New Cable SAW Provides 100MHz Bandwidth for
DOCSIS® 3.0 Applications
TriQuint’s newest filter for digital tuner applications, the 856653, enables tuner, modem and set-top box (STB) manufacturers to meet ultra-fast wideband DOCSIS® 3.0 performance for their cable products.  The new filter, created using a new proprietary technique, provides a passband bandwidth of 100MHz at 1250MHz intermediate frequency in digital tuner applications which is needed to support DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding, a technology that combines four-to-eight DOCSIS channels to significantly increase downstream data rates.  TriQuint’s new filter, believed to be the first SAW device to provide this level of wideband performance, is available now in sample and production quantities.  For additional product details please contact TriQuint Product Marketing by e-mail: markus.behet@tqs.com.