Peregrine intros UltraCMOS RF power limiters

USA: Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, debuted 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."