Microwave Component Selection for High-Power Wireless Routers

Among the numerous analog device manufacturers, Skyworks, RFMD, SiGe, SST and Microsemi have particularly outstanding product performance and certain cost advantages. This article focuses on the high-power microwave devices of these five manufacturers.

Skyworks

Skyworks is an industry-leading wireless communication semiconductor supplier that focuses on RF and complete communication system solutions for mobile communication applications, providing a variety of front-end modules, RF subsystems and mobile systems for mobile phones, wireless networks and communication infrastructure customers. Skyworks is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with an executive office in Irvine, California, and has design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, business and service teams in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific.

RFMD

RFMD is a world-class supplier of design, manufacture and application solutions for mobile communications. RFMD's power amplifiers, transmission modules, cellular transceivers and system-on-chip (SOC) solutions promote mobility of global communications, enhance connectivity and support advanced functions of current and next-generation mobile phones, cellular base stations, wireless local area networks (WLAN) and global positioning systems (GPS).

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SiGe Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leading wireless system RF solution provider in GPS, Bluetooth, Wimax, Wireless Lan, etc. SiGe Semiconductor is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and its R&D department is located in Cambridge, UK. Its members were originally affiliated with Canadian national research institutions and specialized in semiconductor processes. After becoming an independent company, they focused on the development of RF products with silicon germanium processes.

SST

SST is a leading manufacturer of flash memory technology. It produces and sells a variety of non-volatile memory solutions with its own ultra-fast flash technology, which are widely used in digital consumer products, networks, wireless communications and network computing markets. SST's products include high-function flash memory, large-capacity flash storage products and integrated single-chip flash microcontrollers.

Microsemi

Microsemi is a global supplier of power management, power conditioning, transient suppression and RF/microwave semiconductor devices. The company's high-reliability analog ICs and discrete semiconductor devices are used in satellites, telecommunications, computers/peripherals, military/aerospace, industrial/commercial, medical and other fields.