Description
The MSA-0170 is a high performance silicon bipolar Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) housed in a hermetic high reliability package. This MMIC is designed for use as a general purpose 50 Ω gain block. Typical applications include narrow and broad band IF and RF amplifiers in industrial and military applications.
The MSA-series is fabricated using HP’s 10 GHz fT, 25␣ GHz f MAX, silicon bipolar MMIC process which uses nitride self-alignment, ion implantation, and gold metallization to achieve excellent performance, uniformity and reliability. The use of an external bias resistor for temperature and current stability also allows bias flexibility.

FEATUREs
• Cascadable 50 Ω Gain Block
• 3 dB Bandwidth:
   DC to 1.3 GHz
• High Gain:
   18.5 dB Typical at 0.5 GHz
• Unconditionally Stable
   (k>1)
• Hermetic Gold-ceramic
   Microstrip Package