IVA-05208

The IVA-05208 is a variable gain amplifier housed in a miniature low cost plastic surface mount package. The IVA-05208 can be used in any combination of singleended or differential inputs or outputs (see Functional Block Diagram). The lowest frequency of operation is limited only by the values of user selected blocking and bypass capacitors.

Typical applications of IVA-05208 include variable gain amplification fo fiber optic systems (e.g., SONET) with data rates up to 2.0 Gb/s, mobile radio and satellite receivers, millimeter wave receiver IF amplifiers and communication receivers.

The IVA series IVA-05208 of variable gain amplifiers is fabricated using HP's 10 GHz fT, 25 GHz fMAX ISOSAT™-I silicon bipolar process. This process uses nitride self-alignment, submicrometer
lithography, trench isolation, ion implantation, gold metallization and polyimide inter-metal dielectric and scratch protection to achieve excellent performance, uniformity and reliability.