This general-purpose amplifier is a low cost, broadband RFIC manufactured with an InGaP/GaAs Hetero junction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) process (MOCVD).

Designed as an easily cascadable 50-ohm internally matched gain block, the LX5501A can be used for IF and RF amplification in wireless / wired voice and data communication products as well as in broadband test equipment

operating up to 6 GHz. The amplifier is available in a plastic 5-lead SOT-23 package.