Complete front-end module for WCDMA with HSDPA support

August 10, 2005

Skyworks Solutions launched its family of Intera front-end modules (FEMs) for WCDMA applications with support for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). WCDMA is a 3G wireless technology that allows users to send and receive mobile voice, data, image and video communications at speeds up to 2 Mbps over a broad range of frequencies. HSDPA allows high speed downlink with data transmission up to 10 Mbps. By integrating the company's innovative Load Insensitive Power Amplifier (LIPA), a duplexer, power detector and filters into a single 5mm x 8mm package, Skyworks' Intera FEMs allow handset designers to simplify RF design and shrink required board space by approximately 50 percent when compared to alternative discrete approaches.

"As handset OEMs around the world move towards WCDMA platforms, where power efficiency, size and multimode operation become increasingly important, Skyworks' Intera front-end modules answer the call by enabling exceptional talk times in an ultra compact footprint," said Brian M. Daly, Skyworks' Director of Marketing for RF Solutions. "Our simplified architecture not only helps reduce design cycle times, but also facilitates implementation with virtually any WCDMA baseband."

Intera FEMs leverage Skyworks' highly innovative LIPA technology, which today support the majority of tier one handset OEMs, as well as a growing list of ODMs and tier two and three suppliers.