Peregrine Semiconductor Extends Rad-Hard Prescaler Line

(Product News, 15 Jul 2008)

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. has released the new PE9309 UltraCMOS Prescaler for rad-hard space/satellite, high-performance military and hi-rel commercial infrastructure applications. The new divide-by-four device operates across 3.5GHz to 13GHz frequencies, a broad operating range which exemplifies capability of the revolutionary UltraCMOS process technology to enable exceptional broadband performance in its products. This new UltraCMOS device operates in C, X and Ku Band.

The PE9309 Prescaler consumes 16mA of operating current or 41.6mW of power, replacing higher power competitive GaAs devices, which typically consume 0.6W. The device features input power up to 7dBm and a total dose radiation of 100krads (Si). The new Prescaler can be used in conjunction with Peregrine's rad-hard Delta-Sigma Modulated Fractional-N Phase-locked Loop (PLL) Frequency Synthesizer to generate local oscillator frequencies through the Ku-Band.

The PE9309 is currently sampling to select customers in die or the tiny hermetically-sealed 8-lead ceramic formed flat pack package.

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