Custom MMIC, a developer of performance-driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), has announced the addition of the CMD166 driver amplifier and the CMD164, CMD165 and CMD173 distributed amplifiers to its product family.
According to the company, the new amplifiers feature “ultra-wideband performance, low noise figure, low current consumption, and an all positive bias scheme.” The CMD164 distributed amplifier operates from DC-30 GHz, while the CMD165 distributed amplifier operates from 2-30 GHz. Both amplifiers “deliver greater than 12 dB of gain with an output 1 dB compression point of +15 dBm and noise figure of 2.4 dB at 10 GHz, [while] the CMD173 operates from DC-20 GHz and delivers greater than 15 dB of gain with an output 1 dB compression point of +18 dBm and noise figure of 2 dB at 10 GHz.”
The CMD166 driver amplifier “operates from 20-40 GHz with 9 dB of gain and an output 1 dB compression point of +17 dBm.”
Applications for the new amplifiers include “microwave radio and VSAT, telecom infrastructure, test instrumentation, military and space applications, fiber optics, wideband communication systems, and point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios.”
