The ADL5246 is a high performance, low noise variable gain amplifier (VGA) optimized for multistandard base station receivers and point to point receive (Rx) and transmit (Tx) applications. The low noise figure and excellent linearity performance allow the device to be used in a variety of applications.The device consists of a low noise amplifier, a high linearity VGA, and a ? W output driver stage. The variable attenuator networks are optimized to provide high linearity performance over the 45 dB gain control range. Gain is set using a unipolar control voltage from 0 V to 3.3 V. The output stage of the ADL5246 is an externally tuned ? W driver amplifier, which allows the device to be optimized anywhere between the 0.6 GHzto 3 GHz range, with an average tuning bandwidth of 200 MHz wide. An external filter can be used between the VGA and the final driver amplifier. The ADL5246 can be biased between 3.3 V and 5 V to tradeoff between performance and power consumption.The ADL5246 is fabricated on an advanced GaAs process. The device is available in a 32-lead, RoHS-compliant, 5 mm ? 5 mm LFCSP and thermally rated to operate over the ?40?C to +105?C temperature range.APPLICATIONS Multistandard radio receivers Point to point Rx and Tx Instrumentation Military and aerospace

DC1016A-B Demo Board for: LT6557 500MHz, 2200V/µs Gain of 2, Single Supply Triple Video Amplifier with Input Bias Control LT6558 550MHz, 2200V/µs Gain of 1, Single Supply Triple Video Amplifier with Input Bias Control

The AD8013 is a low power, single supply, triple video amplifier. Each of the three amplifiers has 30 mA of output current, and is optimized for driving one back terminated video load (150 ?) each. Each amplifier is a current feedback amp-lifier and features gain flatness of 0.1 dB to 60 MHz while offering differential gain and phase error of 0.02% and 0.06? This makes the AD8013 ideal for broadcast and professional video electronics.The AD8013 offers low power of 4 mA per amplifier max and runs on a single +5 V to +13 V power supply. The outputs of each amplifier swing to within one volt of either supply rail to easily accommodate video signals. The AD8013 is unique among current feedback op amps by virtue of its large capacitive load drive. Each op amp is capable of driving large capacitive loads while still achieving rapid settling time. For instance it can settle in 18 ns driving a resistive load, and achieves 40 ns (0.1%) settling while driving 200 pF.The outstanding bandwidth of 150 MHz along with 1000 V/?s of slew rate make the AD8013 useful in many general purpose high speed applications where a single +5 V or dual power supplies up to ?6.5 V are required. Furthermore the AD8013's high speed disable function can be used to power down the amplifier or to put the output in a high impedance state. This can then be used in video multiplexing applications. The AD8013 is available in the industrial temperature range of -40?C to +85?C.

The AD8129/AD8130 are designed as receivers for the transmission of high speed signals over twisted-pair cables to work with the AD8131 or AD8132 drivers. Either can be used for analog or digital video signals and for high speed data transmission. The AD8129/AD8130 are differential-to-single-ended amplifiers with extremely high CMRR at high frequency. Therefore, they canalso be effectively used as high speed instrumentation amps or for converting differential signals to single-ended signals.The AD8129 is a low noise, high gain (10 or greater) version intended for applications over very long cables, where signal attenuation is significant. The AD8130 is stable at a gain of 1 and can be used for applications where lower gains are required. Both have user-adjustable gain to help compensate for losses in the transmission line. The gain is set by the ratio of two resistor values. The AD8129/AD8130 have very high input impedance on both inputs, regardless of the gain setting. The AD8129/AD8130 have excellent common-mode rejection (70 dB @ 10 MHz), allowing the use of low cost, unshielded twisted-pair cables without fear of corruption by external noise sources or crosstalk. The AD8129/AD8130 have a wide power supply range from single +5 V to ?12 V, allowing wide common-mode and differential-mode voltage ranges while maintaining signal integrity. The wide common-mode voltage range enables the driver-receiver pair to operate without isolation transformers in many systems where the ground potential difference between drive and receive locations is many volts. The AD8129/AD8130 have considerable cost and performance improvements over op amps and other multiamplifier receiving solutions. Applications High speed differential line receivers Differential-to-single-ended converters High speed instrumentation amps Level shifting

The AD8244 is a precision, low power, FET input, quad unity-gain buffer that is designed to isolate very large source impedances from the rest of the signal chain. The 2 pA maximum bias current, near zero current noise, and 10 T? input impedance introduce almost no error, even with source impedance well into the megaohms.Many traditional operational amplifier pinouts have a supply pin that is next to the noninverting input. A guard trace must be routed between these pins to avoid leakage currents much larger than the bias current of a FET input op amp. Guard traces can be routed between pins for large packages, such as DIP or even SOIC; however, the board area consumed by these packages is prohibitive for many modern applications. The AD8244 solves this problem with a unique pinout that physically separates the high impedance inputs from the low impedance supplies and outputs of the other buffers. This configuration simplifies guarding while reducing board space, allowing high performance and high density in the same design.The AD8244 design is focused on solving problems specific to buffers. This includes close channel-to-channel matching which allows channels of the AD8244 to be used in differential signal chains with minimal error. With its low voltage noise, wide supply range, and high precision, the AD8244 is also flexible enough to provide high performance anywhere a unity-gain buffer is needed, even with low source resistance.The AD8244 is specified over the industrial temperature range of ?40?C to +85?C. It is available in a 10-lead MSOP package.APPLICATIONSBiopotential electrodesMedical instrumentationHigh impedance sensor conditioningFiltersPhotodiode amplifiers

The AD8251 is an instrumentation amplifier with digitally programmable gains that has G? input impedance, low output noise, and low distortion, making it suitable for interfacing with sensors and driving high sample rate analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). It has high bandwidth of 10 MHz, low THD of ?110 dB, and fast settling time of 785 ns (maximum) to 0.001%. Offset drift and gain drift are guaranteed to 1.8 ?V/?C and 10 ppm/?C, respectively, for G = 8. In addition to its wide input common voltage range, it boasts a high common-mode rejection of 80 dB at G = 1 from dc to 50 kHz. The combination of precision dc performance coupled with high speed capabilities makes the AD8251 an excellent candidate for data acquisition. Furthermore, this monolithic solution simplifies design and manufacturing and boosts performance of instrumentation by maintaining a tight match of internal resistors and amplifiers. The AD8251 user interface consists of a parallel port that allows users to set the gain in one of two different ways (see Figure 1 in data sheet for the functional block diagram). A 2-bit word sent via a bus can be latched using the WR input. An alternative is to use transparent gain mode where the state of logic levels at the gain port determines the gain. The AD8251 is available in a 10-lead MSOP package and is specified over the ?40?C to +85?C temperature range, making it an excellent solution for applications where size and packing density are important considerations. ApplicationsData acquisition Biomedical analysis Test and measurement

The AD8260 includes a high current driver, usable as atransmitter, and a low noise digitally programmable variablegain amplifier (DGA), useable as a receiver.The receiver section consists of a single-ended input preamplifier,and linear-in-dB, differential-output DGA. The receiver hasa small signal ?3 dB bandwidth of 230 MHz; the driver smallsignal bandwidth is 195 MHz. The driver delivers ?300 mA,well suited for driving low impedance loads, even whenconnected to a 3.3 V supply.The AD8260 DGA is ideal for trim applications and has a gainspan of 30 dB, in 3 dB steps. Excellent bandwidth uniformity ismaintained across the entire frequency range. The low output-referrednoise of the DGA is advantageous in driving highspeed ADCs. The differential output facilitates the interface tomodern low voltage high speed ADCs.Single-supply and dual-supply operation makes the part versatileand enables gain control of negative-going pulses, such as thosegenerated by photodiodes or photo-multiplier tubes, as well asprocessing band-pass signals on a single supply. For maximumdynamic range, it is essential that the part be ac-coupled whenoperating on a single supply.The AD8260 preamplifier (PrA) is configured with externalresistors for gains greater than 6 dB and can be inverting ornoninverting. The DGA is characterized with a noninvertingpreamplifier gain of 2?. The attenuator has a range of 30 dB andthe output amplifier has a gain of 8? (18.06 dB). The lowestnoninverting gain range is ?6 dB to +24 dB and shifts up withincreased preamplifier gain. The gain is controlled via a parallelport (Pin GNS0 to Pin GNS3) with 10 gain steps of 3 dB percode. The preamplifier and DGA are disabled for any code thatis not assigned a gain step.The AD8260 can operate with single or dual supplies from 3.3 Vto ?5 V. An internal buffer normally provides a split supplyreference for single-supply operation; an external reference canalso be used when the VMID buffer is shut down.The operating temperature range is ?40?C to +105?C. TheAD8260 is available in a 5 mm ? 5 mm, 32-lead LFCSP.Applications Digital AGC systems Tx/Rx signal processing Power line transceivers

The AD8317 is a demodulating logarithmic amplifier, capable of accurately converting an RF input signal to a corresponding decibel-scaled output. It employs the progressive compression technique over a cascaded amplifier chain, each stage of which is equipped with a detector cell. The device can be used in either measurement or controller modes. The AD8317 maintains accurate log conformance for signals of 1 MHz to 8 GHz and provides useful operation to 10 GHz. The input dynamic range is typically 55 dB (referenced to 50 ?) with less than ?3 dB error. The AD8317 has 6 ns/10 ns response time (fall time/rise time) that enables RF burst detection to a pulse rate of beyond 50 MHz. The device provides unprecedented logarithmic intercept stability vs. ambient temperature conditions. A supply of 3.0 V to 5.5 V is required to power the device. Current consumption is typically 22 mA, and it decreases to 200 ?A when the device is disabled.The AD8317 can be configured to provide a control voltage to a power amplifier or a measurement output from the VOUT pin. Because the output can be used for controller applications, special attention has been paid to minimize wideband noise. In this mode, the setpoint control voltage is applied to the VSET pin.The feedback loop through an RF amplifier is closed via VOUT, the output of which regulates the output of the amplifier to a magnitude corresponding to VSET. The AD8317 provides 0 V to (VPOS ? 0.1 V) output capability at the VOUT pin, suitable for controller applications. As a measurement device, VOUT is externally connected to VSET to produce an output voltage, VOUT, that is a decreasing linear-in-dB function of the RF input signal amplitude.The logarithmic slope is ?22 mV/dB, determined by the VSET interface. The intercept is 15 dBm (referenced to 50 ?, CW input) using the INHI input. These parameters are very stable against supply and temperature variations.The AD8317 is fabricated on a SiGe bipolar IC process and is available in a 2 mm ? 3 mm, 8-lead LFCSP with an operating temperature range of ?40?C to +85?C.Applications RF transmitter PA setpoint control and level monitoring Power monitoring in radio link transmitters RSSI measurement in base stations, WLANs, WiMAX, and radars

The AD8330 is a wideband variable gain amplifier for applicationsrequiring a fully differential signal path, low noise, well-definedgain, and moderately low distortion, from dc to 150 MHz. Theinput pins can also be driven from a single-ended source. Thepeak differential input is ?2 V, allowing sine wave operation at1 V rms with generous headroom. The output pins can drivesingle-sided loads essentially rail-to-rail. The differential outputresistance is 150 ?. The output swing is a linear function of thevoltage applied to the VMAG pin that internally defaults to 0.5 V,providing a peak output of ?2 V. This can be raised to 10 V p-p,limited by the supply voltage.The basic gain function is linear-in-dB, controlled by the voltageapplied to Pin VDBS. The gain ranges from 0 dB to 50 dB forcontrol voltages between 0 V and 1.5 V?a slope of 30 mV/dB.The gain linearity is typically within ?0.1 dB. By changing thelogic level on Pin MODE, the gain decreases over the same range,with an opposite slope. A second gain control port is providedat the VMAG pin and allows the user to vary the numeric gainfrom a factor of 0.03 to 10. All the parameters of the AD8330have low sensitivities to temperature and supply voltages. UsingVMAG, the basic 0 dB to 50 dB range can be repositioned toany value from 20 dB higher (that is, 20 dB to 70 dB) to at least30 dB lower (that is, ?30 dB to +20 dB) to suit the application,thereby providing an unprecedented gain range of over 100 dB.A unique aspect of the AD8330 is that its bandwidth and pulseresponse are essentially constant for all gains, over both thebasic 50 dB linear-in-dB range, but also when using the linearin-magnitudefunction. The exceptional stability of the HFresponse over the gain range is of particular value in those VGAapplications where it is essential to maintain accurate gain lawconformanceat high frequencies.An external capacitor at Pin OFST sets the high-pass corner ofan offset reduction loop, whose frequency can be as low as 5 Hz.When this pin is grounded, the signal path becomes dc-coupled.When used to drive an ADC, an external common-mode controlvoltage at Pin CNTR can be driven to within 0.5 V of either groundor VS to accommodate a wide variety of requirements. By default,the two outputs are positioned at the midpoint of the supply, VS/2.Other features, such as two levels of power-down (fully off anda hibernate mode), further extend the practical value of thisexceptionally versatile VGA.The AD8330 is available in 16-lead LFCSP and 16-lead QSOPpackages and is specified for operation from ?40?C to +85?C.Applications Pre-ADC signal conditioning 75 ? cable driving adjust AGC amplifiers

The AD8331 is a single channel, ultralow noise, linear-in-dB, variable gain amplifier (VGA). Optimized for ultrasound systems, it is usable as a low noise variable gain element at frequencies up to 120 MHz.Included is an ultralow noise preamplifier (LNA), an X-AMP? VGA with 48 dB of gain range, and a selectable gain postamplifier with adjustable output limiting. The LNA gain is 19 dB with a single-ended input and differential outputs. Using a single resistor, the LNA input impedance can be adjusted to match a signal source without compromising noise performance.The 48 dB gain range of the VGA makes these devices suitable for a variety of applications. Excellent bandwidth uniformity is maintained across the entire range. The gain control interface provides precise linear-in-dB scaling of 50 dB/V for control voltages between 40 mV and 1 V. Factory trim ensures excellent part-to-part and channel-to-channel gain matching. Differential signal paths result in superb second- and third-order distortion performance and low crosstalk.The operating temperature range is -40?C to +85?C. The AD8331 is available in a 20-lead QSOP package.The AD8331 is a single version of the dual AD8332 and quad AD8334.For information on specs, see the AD8331/AD8332/AD8334 datasheet.Applications Ultrasound and sonar time-gain controls High performance automatic gain control (AGC) systems I/Q signal processing High speed, dual ADC drivers