Date: 21st Jun 2011
RF power devices from Freescale offer
5 points higher efficiency compared to LDMOS
Freescale Semiconductor has announced the new Airfast
RF power solutions designed to supply the wireless infrastructure
equipment manufacturers with RF power products that take
performance and energy efficiency to new levels.
Airfast RF power solutions are expected to deliver the
bandwidth products, and are intended to support signals
in excess of 150 MHz instantaneous bandwidth and enable
simultaneous operation over multiple communication bands.
Designed to provide an impressive five points higher device
efficiency than the latest generation LDMOS products available
in the industry, Freescale's RF power devices significantly
improve linearity and anticipate 25 percent higher power
density claims Freescale.
"In the past, success in RF power was all about linear
efficiency," said Tom Deitrich, senior vice president
and general manager of Freescale's RF, Analog & Sensor
Group. "Today our customers have a far more complicated
set of challenges: multiple standards, signal variability,
extreme bandwidth requirements and more. Freescale is addressing
this paradigm shift with a new product family based on a
more comprehensive, holistic, and system-level approach
to RF power technology."
According to ABI Research, Freescale holds 57 percent market
share in RF power solutions.
Freescale says Airfast RF power solutions will be housed
in over molded plastic packaging that is expected to offer
up to a 20 percent reduction in thermal resistance over
the first generation, continuing Freescale's commitment
to utilizing highly advanced and cost-effective packaging
for high-performance RF power transistor applications.
For more information visit: www.freescale.com/
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