Description

The MSA-1120 is a high performance silicon bipolar Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) housed in a hermetic BeO disk package for good thermal characteristics. This MMIC is designed for high dynamic range in either 50 or 75 Ω systems by combining low noise figure with high IP3. Typical applications include narrow and broadband linear amplifiers in industrial and military systems.

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

• High Dynamic Range Cascadable 50Ω or 75Ω Gain Block

• 3 dB Bandwidth: 50 MHz to 1.6 GHz

• 17.5 dBm Typical P1 dB at 0.5 GHz

• 12 dB Typical 50 Ω Gain at 0.5 GHz

• 3.5 dB Typical Noise Figure at 0.5 GHz

• Hermetic Metal/Beryllia Microstrip Package