Date: 15/09/2009

Fujitsu is now shipping SAW filter-less 3G transceiver for mobile phones

Fujitsu has announced that it enters into the mobile phone RF transceiver market with commercial production of a new high-integrated transceiver module supporting 3GPP WCDMA/EGPRS wireless phones.

The MB86L01A is a multi-mode transceiver to eliminate 3G TX, RX inter-stage SAW filters and low-noise amplifiers (LNAs). The MB86L01A features a high-level programming model for controlling the radio using an open standard digital interface (3G DigRF/ MIPI), which is compatible with a wide range of basebands.

The MB86L01A supports GSM bands (GSM850, EGSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900), WCDMA (Bands I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, and XI) and WCDMA HSDPA category 10 and HSUPA category 6. The transceiver includes a 3G DigRF interface to the baseband IC. It offers either SPI and/or GPOs to control PAs, switching regulators and antenna switch, with simplified timing and control enabled by a microcontroller unit in the transceiver.

"The MB86L01A transceiver is the first production-ready multimode RF transceiver to eliminate LNAs and 3G TX and RX SAWs, thus reducing component count, cost and board area," said Vivek Bhan, senior director, RF Engineering for Fujitsu Microelectronics America. "This RF transceiver supports most global band configurations and its RF API slashes radio integration time. The result is smaller radios with faster time to market for handset manufacturers worldwide."

"Fujitsu is entering the mobile phone RF transceiver market with a strong product designed to reduce development time, cost, and overall effort, while supporting a wide range of basebands," said Fred Nakanishi, president of the ASSP Business Unit at Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited. "Fujitsu is committed to providing the leading-edge RF transceiver solutions to our customers worldwide, along with other semiconductor devices such as power management ICs, to optimize the customers' competitive advantages."

Package: 142-pin 7.1 mm x 5.9 mm x 1mm LGA package
Availability: Now

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