- 12 June 2006 -

Hittite launches three-dozen new chips at MTT-S show

Amongst the exhibitors at the 2006 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, will be not a few III-V vendors. Hittite Microwave is likely breaking records by the timely launch of more than thirty new products, mostly in III-Vs but with some SiGe too. These include amplifiers, switches, VCOs, mixers and converters.

This bounty includes a trio of new high performance product lines and, at their expanded 20'x 30' booth, Hittite will feature test bench demonstrations of the new product lines (booth #2145).

In switches, The HMC-C019 is a high speed, high isolation GaAs MESFET SPST Switch housed in a miniature hermetic connectorized module. Covering DC to 20GHz, the HMC-C019 features 100dB isolation up to 4GHz, and 65dB isolation up to 20GHz. This SPST switch module exhibits very fast switching speeds of 8.5ns, and very low switching transients of 20mV peak to peak, making it ideal for high speed RF pulse modulation applications.

An example of one of the new VCOs is the HMC586LC4B, a wideband GaAs InGaP HBT MMIC VCO, which incorporates the resonator, negative resistance device, and varactor diode. This fully integrated MMIC VCO offers a wide output frequency tuning range of 4 to 8GHz, with +5dBm output power and very low SSB Phase Noise of -100dBc/Hz @ 100kHz offset. Four new InGaP HBT VCOs will be added to its broad line of MMIC-based VCO products. The HMC507LP5 (E), HMC508LP5(E), HMC509LP5(E) and HMC511LP5(E) are fully integrated VCOs that cover 6.65 to10.15GHz, feature SSB phase noise of -115dBc/Hz, and half frequency outputs.

The HMC660LC4B Wideband Track-and-Hold Amplifier is the first product within the new Data Converter Product Line. Fabricated in a SiGe BiCMOS process, the HMC660LC4B is designed for direct sampling of full-scale 1Vpp signals with up to 4.5GHz input bandwidth with a maximum 3GHz clock rate.

The HMC600LP4(E) is the first of a family of leading-edge power detectors to be introduced within the new Power Detector Product Line. The HMC600LP4(E) Logarithmic Detector/Controller is fabricated in a SiGe BiCMOS process, and delivers a high ±3dB dynamic range of up to 75dB, with outstanding accuracy and temperature stability from 50 to 4000MHz.

In addition, the 2-volume 2006 Designer's Guide Catalog is available, as well as an updated June 2006 CD-ROM catalog detailing over 430 products. New literature including the Summer 2006 Product Selection Guide, Newsletter and CD-ROM can be obtained from the booth at IMS 2006 or can be requested at the website.
For a complete listing of the three dozen new products replete with links to datasheets, visit the Hittite website:

www.hittite.com