MSA-0520 [Broadcom]

The MSA-0520 is a high performance silicon bipolar Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) in a hermetic BeO disk package. It is designed as a general purpose 50Ω gain block for narrow and broad band IF and RF amplifiers in industrial and military applications. Fabricated using a 10 GHz fT, 25 GHz fMAX silicon bipolar process with nitride self-alignment, ion implantation, and gold metallization. Features include cascadable 50Ω gain, high output power (+23 dBm at 1.0 GHz), low distortion (33 dBm IP3 at 1.0 GHz), and 8.5 dB typical gain at 1.0 GHz. An external bias resistor provides temperature and current stability and bias flexibility.