MSA-0670
Cascadable Silicon Bipolar MMIC Amplifier
Data Sheet
Description
Features
The MSA-0670 is a high performance silicon bipolar
•
Cascadable 50 Ω Gain Block
Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) housed
•
Low Operating Voltage:
in a hermetic, high reliability package. This MMIC is
3.5 V Typical V
d
designed for use as a general purpose 50Ω gain block.
Typical applications include narrow and broad band IF
•
3 dB Bandwidth:
DC to 1.0 GHz
and RF amplifiers in industrial and military applications.
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High Gain:
The MSA-series is fabricated using Avago’s 10 GHz
19.5 dB Typical at 0.5 GHz
f
T
, 25 GHz f
MAX
, silicon bipolar MMIC process which
uses nitride self-alignment, ion implantation, and
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Low Noise Figure:
2.8 dB Typical at 0.5 GHz
gold metallization to achieve excellent performance,
uniformity and reliability. The use of an external bias
•
Hermetic Gold-ceramic Microstrip Package
resistor for temperature and current stability also allows
bias flexibility.
70 mil Package
Typical Biasing Configuration
R
bias
V
CC
> 5 V
RFC (Optional)
C
block
IN
1
4
3
MSA
C
block
OUT
V
d
= 3.5 V
2