26.5-GHz SPDT MEMS switch
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 6/1/2007
TeraVicta Technologies has announced a new DC to 26.5-GHz SPDT MEMS switch, the TT1244, which makes use of the vendor’s MEMS manufacturing technology. The TT1244 delivers low insertion loss (from 0.1 dB at DC to 1.8 dB at 26.5 GHz) and good linearity (with third-order intercept point [IP3] at better than 75 dBm). Isolation ranges from 60 dB at DC to 20 dB at 26.5 GHz. The switch comes packaged in a standard surface-mount micro BGA.
Applications for the TT1244 include automated test equipment (ATE) and other test instrumentation. At 26.5 GHz, the device covers the K band for communications and instrumentation products, and it can test high-speed interconnect protocols such as serial rapid I/O (sRIO), PCI Express, and 10-Gbps Ethernet.
Base prices: 26.5-GHz SPDT MEMS switch evaluation board—$995; 26.5-GHz SPDT MEMS switch—$92 each in sample quantities and $49.75 each in quantities of 1000. TeraVicta, www.teravicta.com.
