Description

The MSA-0420 is a high performance silicon bipolar Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) housed in a hermetic, high reliability package. This MMIC is designed for use as a general purpose 50Ω gain block. Typical applications include narrow and broad band IF and RF amplifiers in industrial and military applications.

The MSA-series is fabricated using Avago’s 10 GHz f,T 25 GHz fMAX, silicon bipolar MMIC process which uses nitride self-alignment, ion implantation, and gold metallization to achieve excellent performance, uniformity and reliability. The use of an external bias resistor for temperature and current stability also allows bias flexibility.

Features

• Cascadable 50Ω Gain Block

• 3 dB Bandwidth: DC to 4.0 GHz

• 8.5 dB Typical Gain at 1.0 GHz

• 16.0 dBm Typical P1 dB at 1.0 GHz

• Unconditionally Stable (k>1)

• Hermetic Metal/Beryllia Microstrip Package