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Ku-Band SATCOM Transmitter IC 12.5GHz to 15GHz
F6501 Preliminary Short-Form Datasheet
Description
Features
Preliminary The F6501 is an 8-channel transmitter (TX) silicon IC designed
using a SiGe BiCMOS process for Ku-Band SATCOM phased array applications. The core IC has 360° 6-bit phase control coupled with 35dB 6-bit gain control on each channel to achieve fine beam steering and gain compensation between radiating channels. The device has a 25dB nominal gain and 13dBm OP1dB. The core chip achieves an RMS phase error of 3° and an RMS gain error of 0.4dB over the frequency of operation. The typical total power consumption is 1.4W (175mW per channel) at OP1dB.