Cavendish Kinetics’ RF MEMS Tuner, Fabricated at TowerJazz, Sets New Industry Benchmark by Passing 50 Billion Cycle Testing
Proven Reliability Opens Door to Substantial
“The cycling data is impressive, especially as the reliability has
exceeded the specifications from mobile phone makers by up to 100x” said
Dr.
Cavendish’s first generation MEMS products, which include the CK301, are innovative RF tuners specifically designed to overcome the antenna performance challenges experienced in today’s LTE smartphones, which have to support an ever growing number of operating modes and frequency bands. In addition, larger displays and batteries, and ever thinner form-factors further constrain the antenna volume available in smartphones. Antenna Tuning is one of the most promising solutions to enable multiband antenna performance, but existing tuning solutions do not provide the characteristics required to make it work efficiently. Cavendish’s RF tuners provide an industry leading ‘Q-Factor’ (>200), are very low loss (dB), and enable the required tuning ranges so that RF designers can meet LTE radio performance requirements. In addition, Cavendish’s antenna tuner is only 2mm2 in size and does not require other components, which makes it easy to implement in even the most challenging form-factors.
Cavendish’s upcoming MEMS products will address the performance needs of LTE-advanced RF front-end components such as power amplifiers, filters and switches, to enable demanding next generation LTE carrier-aggregation and WiFi co-existence solutions.
“We have dedicated ourselves to build RF MEMS products that are
optimizing smartphone radio platforms, and can be mass produced using
basic CMOS processes,” said
"We are proud that Cavendish Kinetics was able to take full advantage of
our MEMS Foundry enablement solutions," said
About Cavendish Kinetics
Cavendish Kinetics (www.cavendish-kinetics.com)
provides high-performance RF tuning solutions for mobile device
manufacturers in the global wireless industry. As the world’s leading
expert on RF microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) design and
manufacturing, Cavendish has achieved a breakthrough—applying its
patented MEMS technology and manufacturing processes to solving tough
radio-frequency (RF) connectivity problems, particularly for 4G and LTE.
Privately held, Cavendish is based in
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