RF Micro Devices has announced its first broadband cable TV transmission products for operation at 1.2GHz.
The devices are fabbed on the firm’s gallium nitride (GaN) process technology.
Cable operators are looking to upgrade their network infrastructure to 1.2GHz in order to provide increased bandwidth for HDTV and emerging 3D HDTV.
The RFPD2580 power doubler amplifier achieves 22.5dB gain at 1.2GHz, said RFMD.
Power consumption is 450mA maximum at 24Vdc.
A hybrid push-pull amplifier module, the RFPP2590, consumes just 240mA from a 24V supply.
There is also the RFOS601x optical receiver module designed for use in hybrid fibre coax (HFC) optical nodes which convert the optical signal into electrical signals for transmission to CATV set-top boxes and home routers.
The RFPD2580, RFPP2590, and RFOS601x are all available in industry-standard SOT115J packages and are available for sampling immediately.