Peregrine Introduces UltraCMOS® RF Power Limiters, the Industry’s First Monolithic Alternative to Discrete, PIN-Diode Limi...
07 Abril 2014 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Peregrine’s New Architecture Delivers Turnkey,
Power-Limiter Solutions That Outperform GaAs-Based Limiters in
Protecting Systems From Excessive RF Power, Intentional Jammers and
ESD Events
EDI CON – In Booth #512 Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:
PSMI), founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of
advanced RF solutions, debuts its new line of UltraCMOS® RF power
limiters, including PE45140 and PE45450 slated for release in May.
Peregrine’s power limiters represent the industry’s first turnkey,
monolithic solutions to provide an alternative to discrete,
PIN-diode limiters based on gallium arsenide (GaAs). UltraCMOS
power limiters deliver simple, repeatable and reliable protection
ideal for test-and-measurement, land-mobile-radio (LMR),
wireless-infrastructure, military and radar systems.
“Peregrine makes best-in-class RF products, and we are pleased
to extend that heritage into the new category of power limiters
announced at EDI CON today,” says Duncan Pilgrim, director of
marketing at Peregrine. “Our customers continuously find that
incumbent GaAs-based RF solutions do not rise to the challenge of
new complexity in the market, and they are investing in Peregrine’s
SOI technology as fast as we can develop new options like
this.”
Turnkey Monolithic Architecture Delivers Unprecedented
Benefits
On a chip eight times smaller than the board space required by
discrete, PIN-diode solutions, Peregrine’s new power limiters
provide a 10-100X improvement in response and recovery time;
deliver greater than 40 dB improvement in linearity (IP3); and
offer a 20X improvement in ESD (electrostatic discharge)
protection.
Of particular interest to RF designers, Peregrine’s power
limiters save PCB space with a small form factor; reduce BoM (bill
of materials) by eliminating the need for extra components; and
improve time to market by reducing in-design time and costs. They
also beat existing solutions in RF performance, including higher
linearity to eliminate signal distortion, high ESD to ensure high
reliability, wide bandwidth to enable design flexibility and fast
response and recovery times to ensure robust protection of
power-sensitive components. Finally, because Peregrine’s power
limiters are based on UltraCMOS instead of GaAs, they can be
closely integrated with other UltraCMOS RF components.
This table illustrates how Peregrine’s new UltraCMOS power
limiters compare to GaAs-based PIN diode solutions:
Attributes
UltraCMOS Power
Limiter
GaAS PIN Diode Power
Limiters
Small form factor Yes No
Requires no
external components Yes No
Superior ESD
rating Yes No
Adjustable limiting
threshold Yes No
Power reflection mode
Yes No
Protection in unpowered conditions
Yes Yes
Excellent linearity Yes
No
Sub-nanosecond response time Yes No
Wide
bandwidth support Yes No
High power
handling Yes Yes
Low insertion loss
Yes Yes
Several Industries Require Repeatable and Reliable Power
Protection
Peregrine’s UltraCMOS power limiters can protect:
- RF ports in test-and-measurement
equipment
- RF front ends and low-noise amplifiers
(LNAs) in LMRs
- RF receivers in
wireless-infrastructure equipment
- Tactical radio receivers from
intentional jammers in military warfare
- Transceiver (TRX) modules in
radar systems
In order to achieve repeatable and reliable power protection,
customers currently face challenges because it takes so long to
design and validate PIN-diode power-limiter circuits and the
multiple external components this architecture requires. With
Peregrine’s new, all-in-one architecture, customers will be able to
significantly reduce time to market and cost.
Availability
On display at EDI CON Booth #512, Peregrine plans to release the
first two of its UltraCMOS power limiters in May 2014:
- The PE45140 is a 20 MHz - 2GHz, 5 W
power limiter designed for professional portable and mobile radios,
such as tactical radios and LMRs, as well as HF, VHF, UHF, L-band
radar transceivers.
- The PE45450 is a 9KHz - 6GHz, 5 W power
limiter designed for test-and-measurement systems, L/S/C-band radar
transceivers, counter-measure receivers and wireless
receivers.
Both power limiters feature an adjustable limiting threshold,
unbiased power limiting and operation in two modes – power limiting
or power reflecting. Images, videos and additional details are
available in our press kit.
USE OF FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding
our management's future expectations, beliefs, intentions, goals,
strategies, plans and prospects. Such statements constitute
“forward-looking” statements which are subject to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
The achievement of the matters covered by such forward-looking
statements involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any of
these risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the
assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or
achievements could be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include,
but are not limited to, our dependence on a limited number of
customers for a substantial portion of our revenues; intellectual
property risks; intense competition in our industry; our ability to
develop and introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis
and achieve market acceptance of those products; consumer
acceptance of our customers’ products that incorporate our
solutions; our lack of long-term supply contracts and dependence on
limited sources of supply; and potential decreases in average
selling prices for our products.
For further information regarding risks and uncertainties
associated with Peregrine’s business, please refer to the filings
that we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time
to time, including those set forth in the section entitled “Risk
Factors” in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 29, 2012 and
additional information that will be set forth in our Form 10-K that
will be filed for the year ended December 28, 2013, which should be
read in conjunction with these financial results. These documents
are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Relations
section of our website at http://investors.psemi.com/. Please also
note that forward-looking statements represent our management's
beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this press release.
Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these
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available in the future.
ABOUT PEREGRINE SEMICONDUCTOR
Peregrine Semiconductor (NASDAQ: PSMI), founder of RF SOI
(silicon on insulator), is a leading fabless provider of
high-performance, integrated RF solutions. Since 1988 Peregrine and
its founding team have been perfecting UltraCMOS® technology – a
patented, advanced form of SOI – to deliver the performance edge
needed to solve the RF market’s biggest challenges, such as
linearity. With products that deliver best-in-class performance and
monolithic integration, Peregrine is the trusted choice for market
leaders in automotive, broadband, industrial, Internet of Things,
military, mobile devices, smartphones, space, test-and-measurement
equipment and wireless infrastructure. Peregrine holds more than
170 filed and pending patents and has shipped more than 2 billion
UltraCMOS units. For more information, visit
http://www.psemi.com.
The Peregrine Semiconductor name, logo, and
UltraCMOS are registered trademarks of Peregrine Semiconductor
Corporation in the U.S.A., and other countries. All other
trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective
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Peregrine SemiconductorElizabeth Brown,
619.993.4648pr@psemi.com
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