Description

Avago Technologies’ ATF‑531P8 is a single‑voltage high linearity, low noise E‑pHEMT housed in an 8‑lead JEDEC‑ standard leadless plastic chip carrier (LPCC [3]) package. The device is ideal as a high linearity, low‑noise, medium‑ power amplifer. Its operating frequency range is from 50MHz to 6 GHz.

Features

• Single voltage operation

• High linearity and gain

• Low noise fgure

• Excellent uniformity in product specifcations

• Small package size: 2.0 x 2.0 x 0.75 mm

• Point MTTF > 300 years [2]

• MSL‑1 and lead‑free

• Tape‑and‑reel packaging option available

Specifcations

2 GHz; 4V, 135 mA (Typ.)

• 38 dBm output IP3

• 0.6 dB noise fgure

• 20 dB gain

• 10.7 dB LFOM [4]

• 24.5 dBm output power at 1 dB gain compression

Applications

• Front‑end LNA Q1 and Q2 driver or pre‑driver ampli‑ fer for Cellular/PCS and WCDMA wireless infrastructure

• Driver amplifer for WLAN, WLL/RLL and MMDS applications

• General purpose discrete E‑pHEMT for other high linearity applications