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Gain = 32 鈥?37 dB from 950 鈥?2150 MHz (positive gain slope)
Low Power Consumption: 40mA at +5.0 Volts
Exceptionally low Noise Figure: less than 3 dB
Low Cost, Low Parts Count
High Reverse Isolation
Output Compression point: +1 dBm minimum
(May be increased with higher DC bias level)
Suitable for European, Asian & North American DBS
LNB I.F. Amplifier Chains for 950 鈥?1450 and 950 鈥?2150 MHz
1. Overview
Infineon鈥檚
BGA430 Broad Band High Gain
Low Noise Amplifier
and
BGB540 Active
Biased Transistor
are shown in an
Intermediate-Frequency
(鈥淚.F.鈥?
amplifier
application targeted for the I.F. chains of
European, Asian and North American Direct-
Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Low Noise Block
Amplifier / Downconverters (LNBs).
A summary of key performance parameters for
the complete LNB I.F. Amplifier is given in
Table
1
to the right.
The reader is referred to
Appendix A
on page 21 for complete electrical
data including minimum, maximum, mean value,
and standard deviation for the lot of Printed
Circuit Boards (PCBs) tested.
Appendix B
on
page 22 gives information on performance over
the 鈥?0 to +85 擄C temperature range.
Section 2
of this applications note provides a
brief description of the BGA430 and BGB540
MMICs.
Section 3
gives some general Direct
Broadcast Satellite system information, and is
included to provide a general background.
Section 4
provides details on the PC Board
used, including photos, a Bill of Material (BOM)
and a PCB cross-sectional diagram.
Section 5
describes using the BGA430 MMIC as a stand-
alone DBS I.F. Amplifier block, and covers
design issues unique to BGA430.
Section 6
addresses the question 鈥渨hy might one want a
positive gain slope I.F. Amplifier鈥?and
Section 7
gives measurement results on the complete
gain-sloped amplifier using both BGA430 &
BGB540.
Table 1.
complete
Amplifier.
Typical performance for the
BGA430+BGB540
LNB
I.F.
Conditions: Temperature=25擄C, V=5.0 Volts, n=25 units,
Z
S
=Z
L
=50鈩? network analyzer source power = -40 dBm
Parameter
Input Return Loss, dB
Gain, dB
Reverse Isolation, dB
Output Return Loss, dB
Noise Figure, dB
Output P
1dB
, dBm
Input IP
3
, dBm
Frequency, MHz
950
1450
2150
26.0
27.3
12.0
33.0
37.2
37.2
>50
>50
>50
13.7
13.4
13.1
2.4
2.4
2.6
+1.7
+4.9
+7.9
-20.8
-22.5
-18.9
Please note that the reference planes for all
measurement data shown in
Table 1
are at the
PC board鈥檚 SMA RF connectors; e.g. no PCB
loss is extracted from the numbers given.
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