Guerrilla RF, Inc. announced it is now sampling the GRF2113, a next-generation variant of its highly popular GRF2013 amplifier core. The gain of this new variant surpasses that of its predecessor by up to 3.5 dB, providing extra headroom in wireless infrastructure receive and transmit setups where marginal cascaded gain is a concern. The GRF2113 is designed to operate between 50 to 4000 MHz while using a single, broadband tune.

When used at 2.5 GHz, the GRF2113 delivers 21.5 dB of gain, 22 dBm of OP1dB compression, 38 dBm of OIP3 linearity, and a low noise figure of 1.75 dB (as measured on the device?s standard evaluation board; de-embedded NF values are approximate 0.2dB lower). As with most of GRF?s amplifier cores, the GRF2113 touts a flexible biasing architecture allowing for customizable tradeoffs in linearity and power consumption. Supply voltages can vary between 3 and 6 V, although most customers will elect to use a standard 5 V supply with 115 mA of biasing current.

The GRF2113 utilizes Guerilla RF?s popular 2 x 2 mm DFN-8 package ? following an industry standard in both pinout and footprint. Pricing and Availability: Samples and evaluation boards are available for the GRF2113.

Prices start at $0.98 (10,000-up, EXW USA).