Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radar: Beyond Ranging to Advanced Sensing What is Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radar?   UWB is widely regarded as the best ranging technology for precise, secure, real-time measurement of location, distance and direction. What UWB also offers is the ability to operate as an ambient sensing technology through radar. Like ranging, UWB radar leverages UWB's extremely wide 500MHz bandwidth...

Qorvo PAC55712 72 V BLDC Controller and Driver with Integrated Multimode Power Manager and Configurable AFE with VDS sensing - extended I/O 150 MHz Arm Cortex M4F 128 kB Flash, 32 kB SRAM 70 V Buck/SEPIC DC/DC Controller with external NCH FET 5 V / 200 mA system supply 3 High-side 70 V 1.2 A...

TGA2962 RF Amplifier by Qorvo The TGA2962 from Qorvo is a GaN-on-SiC Power Amplifier that operates from 2 to 20 GHz. It provides 10 Watts of saturated output power with a large signal gain of 13 dB and a PAE of 22%. This amplifier requires 22 volts of power supply and is matched to 50 Ohms with...

Nordic Semiconductor and Qorvo reference application for Aliro and Matter accelerates time-to-market for access control and smart lock applications The reference application will enable developers to easily and quickly get started on Aliro and Matter access control, making smart lock design accessible to all manufacturers Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in low-power wireless connectivity solutions,...

Qorvo 3-Phase BLDC Motor Driver Reduces Solution Size, Design Time and BOM Cost Greensboro, NC, March 11, 2025 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, today added a highly-integrated brushless DC (BLDC) motor driver to its growing family of power management products. Qorvo’s new 160V, 3-phase gate driver enables smaller...

Qorvo Expands Ultra-Wideband Portfolio with First Fully Integrated Low Power SoC Greensboro, NC, March 10, 2025 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading provider of connectivity and power solutions, today announced the expansion of its Ultra-Wideband (UWB) portfolio with the first fully integrated, low-power UWB System-on-Chip (SoC). This high- performance, ultra-low-power SoC enables precise location tracking with radar-based...

Maximizing Performance in Phased Arrays with Time Delay Solutions February 6, 2025 In our previous blog post on True Time Delay Units called Part 1: True Time Delay: What It Is and How It Works, we explored how true time delay works in an AESA system and some methods to achieving time delay like MMICs, microstrip...

Qorvo Adds Modeling Capabilities to Award-winning QSPICE Circuit Simulation Software Greensboro, NC, March 5, 2025 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, today announced a key new addition to its award-winning QSPICE circuit simulation software. Electronic designers can now create models for semiconductor components accurately, and in minutes instead of hours,...

Qorvo Launches Next-Gen Ku-Band Beamformers for High-Performance SATCOM Terminals Greensboro, NC, March 4, 2025 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, today unveiled its newest silicon Ku-band SATCOM beamformer IC family for phased array-based user terminals.  These next-generation ICs set a new benchmark for SATCOM user terminals, reducing DC power consumption...

QPA4003 26.5 – 29.5 GHz 5 W GaN Power Amplifier by Qorvo Key Features Frequency Range: 26.5 – 29.5 GHz PSAT (PIN = 16 dBm): 37 dBm PAE (PIN = 16 dBm): 22 % Power Gain (PIN = 16 dBm): 22 dB Small Signal Gain: 29 dB IMD3 (POUT = 31 dBm/tone): −33 dBc Bias: VD =...