Avnet Memec is offering a chipset for ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) band radios.

It combines chips from silicon passive devices supplier IPDiA with Semtech's SX1211integrated UHF RF transceiver.

The transceiver operates in the frequency ranges from 863-870, 902-928 MHz and 950-960 MHz, and consumes just 3mA in receive mode.

IPDiA's companion chips, the ASPICS320 use passive integrated connective substrate (PICS) technology which enables devices such as baluns, couplers, splitters, filters and diplexers/duplexers to be integrated densely on a silicon substrate.

"The result is a saving of up to 80% in PCB area compared with discrete surface mount designs," said the supplier.

With three variants covering the 868MHz to 915MHz RF range, the ASPICS320 puts a highly symmetric VCO tank, a loop filter with optimal bandwidth, a high matching network, high RF rejection and efficient decoupling onto a single silicon die; it replaces 13 key components, including the SAW function, in a package just 2.05 x 5.5mm in footprint.

Offered in compact WL CSP packages, the IPDiA devices are reflow compatible for standard production processes and are available in standard tape-and-reel format for volume manufacture.

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