Description
The MSA-0520 is a high performance silicon bipolar Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) housed in a hermetic, BeO disk package for good thermal characteristics.This MMIC is designed for use as a general purpose 50Ω gain block. Typical applications include narrow and broad band IF and RF amplifiers in industrial and military applications.
The MSA-series is fabricated using Avago’s 10 GHz f,T 25 GHz fMAX, silicon bipolar MMIC process which uses nitride self-alignment, ion implantation, and gold metallization to achieve excellent performance, uniformity and reliability. The use of an external bias resistor for temperature and current stability also allows bias flexibility.

Features
• Cascadable 50 Ω Gain Block
• High Output Power: +23 dBm Typical P1 dB at 1.0 GHz
• Low Distortion: 33 dBm Typical IP3 at 1.0 GHz
• 8.5 dB Typical Gain at 1.0 GHz
• Hermetic Metal/Beryllia Microstrip Package