Avago Named Finalist for 2010 EDN Innovation Awards with FBAR Bandpass Filters for 4G WiMAX/LTE Handsets

ACPF-7024 and ACPF-7025 Devices Selected in Analog ICs Category

SAN JOSE, Calif., and SINGAPORE,  March 22, 2011

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq: AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced that its Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) bandpass filters have been selected as a finalist for EDN magazine’s Innovation Awards in the Analog ICs category. The Avago ACPF-7024 and ACPF-7025 filters enable cellular phones to offer simultaneous operation of next-generation 4G WiMAX/LTE communications and WiFi/Bluetooth data networks without voice or data quality degradation from adjacent radio interference. More information and the opportunity to vote for the finalists are available at http://innovation.edn.com/nomination/acpf-7024-and-acpf-7025-bandpass-filters.

“With each new generation of cellular phone standards, there are more bands per phone and more types of radios per phone, requiring better filtering performance,” said James Wilson, director of marketing for wireless products at Avago. “Our FBAR bandpass filters address a significant design challenge to enable 4G radio coexistence with WiFi and Bluetooth data transmission, and we are pleased EDN has recognized the innovative nature of this technology.”

The ACPF-7024 and ACPF-7025 filters are based on Avago’s proprietary Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) technology, which delivers steeper roll-off and lower insertion loss than ceramic or SAW filters and other competing technologies, and does so in a more compact form factor. Low insertion loss reduces power amplifier current and improves receiver sensitivity and dynamic range, resulting in extended battery life and talk time and better signal quality for handsets. The technology’s high out-of-band rejection enables concurrent operation between WiFi/Bluetooth and 4G WiMAX/LTE. FBAR technology makes ultra-small, high-Q filters possible at a fraction of their usual size, and allows integration with other radio components.

The 2400-2482 MHz ACPF-7024 WiFi/Bluetooth filter is used in the 2.4-GHz ISM band, and features over 40 dB of attenuation to interfering signals. The 2496–2690 MHz ACPF-7025 WiMAX filter offers cell band rejection of 60 dB typical, with PCS band rejection and WiFi/WLAN/Bluetooth rejection of 43 dB typical.
 

About Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. By leveraging its core competencies in III-V compound and silicon semiconductor design and processing, the company provides an extensive range of analog, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems to approximately 40,000 end customers. Backed by strong customer service support, the company's products serve four diverse end markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive electronics, and consumer and computing peripherals. Avago has a global employee presence and heritage of technical innovation dating back 50 years to its Hewlett-Packard roots. Information about Avago is available on the Web at www.avagotech.com

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