Nordic nRF51822 SoC

Flexible, robust, and ultra-thin IC offers Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity in world’s thinnest form factor

The AS_NRF51 FleX-BLE IC from American Semiconductor employs Nordic’s nRF51822 SoC to deliver a flexible connectivity solution for wearable, IoT, and logistics applications Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Boise, ID-based American Semiconductor, has selected Nordic’s nRF51822 Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) System-on-Chip (SoC) for its ‘AS_NRF51 FleX™-BLE’, a flexible integrated circuit (IC) that supports Bluetooth...
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Custom MMIC

New Custom MMIC products

New Wideband Medium Power GaAs Amplifier Operating at 20 - 45 GHz We are excited to release CMD293, a wideband medium power GaAs MMIC driver amplifier, ideally suited for military, space and communications systems where small size and high linearity are needed. At 30 GHz the device delivers 20 dB of gain with a corresponding output...
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Sub-6 GHz 5G Updates (5G NR)

Though there are high hopes for Millimeter-wave 5G solutions to solve all of our bandwidth woes, there will likely still be a couple, to several, years before large scale deployments of mm-Wave 5G occur. For the time being, wireless service providers are focusing on developing hardware and prototyping the new Sub-6 GHz 5G NR bands....
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Pasternack Expands its Line of Custom Low-PIM Coaxial Cable Assemblies

Same-Day Delivery Offered for Standard and Custom Length Low-PIM Cables IRVINE, Calif. – Pasternack, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has expanded its offering of low-PIM coaxial cable assemblies to offer customers even more connector options to address DAS, wireless infrastructure, multi-carrier communication systems, WISP, small…

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When DAS Meets PIM: On the Challenges of Accounting for PIM with Distributed Antenna Installations (Part 2)

In last week’s post, we covered foundational details regarding PIM in modern wide-band and multi-carrier communication systems, with a note on upcoming 5G NR sub-6 GHz frequencies being added to the mix. This week’s blog expands upon that discussion and provides more details of PIM considerations specific to DAS. With DAS, another large PIM concern is…

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