The SKY65137, along with other solutions in this product family, serve as a media gateway, allowing wireless access to a vast array of multimedia content from any room and replacing unwieldy cables currently required in the home. Additional applications include high-performance video gaming, outdoor wide-range access points, and extended-range routers.
“Skyworks’ new 5 GHz solution increases the range and data rates of existing conventional WiFi gateways and clients, making it ideal for streaming video wirelessly in the home,” said Irene Song, director of marketing at Skyworks. “We are delighted to be at the forefront of powering a consolidated multimedia console that will allow consumers to wirelessly access their entire entertainment suite from any room.”
Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks linear products portfolio offers diverse standard and custom solutions supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and mobile handset applications, to name just a few.
About the Video Entertainment Networking Industry
Today’s market is driving toward higher performance, higher data-rate wireless standards – particularly for video entertainment networking – which is driving the need for larger and faster data pipes. Channel bonding, which extends bandwidth by bonding two adjacent 20 MHz channels into a single channel, is one means of supporting this requirement. Of the two WiFi frequency bands used today, the 5 GHz band (802.11a/n) supports many more WiFi channels than the 2.4 GHz band (802.11b/g/n), making it more attractive to use for streaming video and other high data-rate applications. Besides 802.11a/n, additional 5 GHz standards such as wireless home digital interface (WHDI) are being used to enable HD video transfer wirelessly in the home.
The SKY65137 WLAN/WiFi Power Amplifier
The SKY65137 is a microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) PA with superior output power, linearity and efficiency. The device is fabricated using Skyworks’ high reliability indium gallium phosphide (InGaP) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology.
The PA is also internally input-output matched in a 20-pin 6 x 6 millimeter (mm) multi-chip module (MCM) surface-mounted technology (SMT) package, which enables customer ease-of-use and faster time-to-market, allowing for a high-performance solution. In addition, the SKY65137 delivers 24 decibels (dBm) linear output power at less than 2.5 percent error vector magnitude (EVM). This high output power level enables higher data rates at extended ranges.
Pricing and Availability
Samples are available today, with volume production scheduled to commence in the third quarter this year. For customized pricing, please contact Email Contact.
Skyworks at IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)
Skyworks will be exhibiting its products in booth #1818 at MTT-S 2009, being held June 7-12.
About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks offers diverse standard and custom linear products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and mobile handset applications. The Company’s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics.
Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit Skyworks’ Web site at: www.skyworksinc.com.
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These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:
unprecedented uncertainty regarding global economic and financial market
conditions; the susceptibility of the wireless semiconductor industry
and the markets addressed by our, and our customers', products to
economic downturns; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of
significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of
our customers, to manage inventory; losses or curtailments of purchases
or payments from key customers, or the timing of customer inventory
adjustments; changes in laws, regulations and/or policies in the United
States that could adversely affect financial markets and our ability to
raise capital; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative
products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing
technological environment; economic, social and political conditions in
the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate,
including security and health risks, possible disruptions in
transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange
rates; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields due to our complex and
specialized manufacturing processes; delays or disruptions in production
due to equipment maintenance, repairs and/or upgrades; our reliance on
several key customers for a large percentage of our sales; fluctuations
in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries
and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or
delivery of our products; the availability and pricing of third party
semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our
ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and
evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new
markets; uncertainties of litigation, including potential disputes over
intellectual property infringement and rights, as well as payments
related to the licensing and/or sale of such rights; our ability to
rapidly develop new products and avoid product obsolescence; our ability
to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and
other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and
capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our
business and product plans; lengthy product development cycles that
impact the timing of new product introductions; unfavorable changes in
product mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs;
shorter than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we
may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process
technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; and
our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property
portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties, as well as
other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those
detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
