Qorvo has announced the expansion of their CATV product portfolio to include two new control products designed for DOCSIS 3.1 cable networking. The newly added products give cable operators greater network design flexibility to enhance upstream and downstream bandwidth while reducing power consumption. The addition of these high-performance control products to their CATV product portfolio creates a one-stop-shop for DOCSIS 3.1 CATV networks. This enables Qorvo to simplify their customers' efforts related to design and production while reducing their time-to-market.
The new control components use Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) process technologies with proven performance and reliability for network control applications. The QPC3624 is a 6-bit Digital Step Attenuator with high linearity and low insertion loss that also allows glitch-free attenuation and faster switching speed. The QPC3024 is an RF absorptive switch that operates from 5 MHz to 3 GHz and allows a fast switching speed of 250 ns. Both the QPC3624 and QPC3024 are DOCSIS 3.1-ready.
Qorvo offers more than 60 DOCSIS 3.1-ready components, including attenuators, switches, power doubler amplifiers, pre-driver gain blocks, push-pull amplifiers and reverse path amplifiers. They uses highly differentiated, internally developed process technologies, including GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT), to deliver superior linearity, output power and reliability.
Samples and evaluation boards for both the QPC3624 and QPC3024 are available now, with limited production release in October and November, 2016 respectively. Both products will be showcased at Qorvo booth #2003 at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, September 26-29, 2016 in Philadelphia, PA.
