General Description

The MAX2383 upconverter and PA driver IC is designed for emerging ARIB (Japan) and ETSI-UMTS (Europe) W-CDMA applications. The IC includes an upconversion mixer with variable gain control, an LO buffer, and a variable-gain PA driver for output power control.

Features

♦ +6dBm Output Power with -46dBc ACPR

♦ Ultra-Miniature UCSP Package

♦ Upconverter Gain-Control Range: 35dB

♦ Automatic Dynamic Current Control

♦ 12mA Quiescent Supply Current

♦ On-Chip LO Buffer with Disable

♦ Low Out-of-Band Noise Power in RX Band: ≤ -144dBm/Hz at +6dBm POUT

♦ No Interstage TX SAW Bandpass Filter Required

Applications

    Japanese 3G Cellular Phones (ARIB)

    European 3G Cellular Phones (UMTS)

    Chinese 3G Cellular Phones (TD-SCDMA)

    PCS Phones