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Qorvo drops Cascaded Switches with New Wideband 5G High-Isolation Family

Qorvo, a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, today announces a new family of RF switches that simplifies multi-band radio architectures. Spanning 50 MHz to 10 GHz, the family reduces component count, improves signal integrity, and enables more efficient RF system design across 5G infrastructure, industrial, drone, and test applications.

As 5G radios expand to support wider bandwidths and more frequency bands, including emerging spectrum such as FR3, designers face increasing challenges maintaining isolation and signal integrity without adding size, loss, and complexity. Many current designs rely on cascaded switch architectures or multiple narrowband devices, increasing insertion loss, degrading linearity and signal integrity, and adding board space and design effort.

“Designers no longer have to rely on cascaded switch architectures to achieve high isolation. We’re delivering that performance in a single device across a very wide bandwidth,” said Debbie Gibson, general manager of Qorvo’s infrastructure business. This approach reduces insertion loss, maintains signal linearity, and simplifies design, improving receiver performance in applications such as digital pre-distortion (DPD) feedback.

Qorvo’s new QPC6144 is a SP4T wideband switch that delivers greater than 65 dB isolation in a single device. Complementing this capability, the QPC6122 (SP2T) and QPC6188 (SP4T) provide wideband absorptive switching across 50 MHz to 10 GHz, enabling a single platform approach to RF routing. These devices reduce component count and simplify design while maintaining low insertion loss and strong linearity across wide bandwidths for calibration paths, general signal routing, and multi-band operation.

The new family of devices forms a dual switching platform that supports both high-isolation and general-purpose routing. By consolidating switching functions into fewer components, engineers can reduce BOM complexity, simplify layouts, and accelerate development across multiple applications.

Product     Key Role Solves Typical Use
QPC6144                         High-isolation switching Eliminates cascaded switches with >65 dB isolation in a single device DPD feedback, calibration paths, high-isolation paths in 5G radios, and advanced drone communications
QPC6122 Compact wideband switching Reduces component count while maintaining low insertion loss and signal linearity across wide bandwidths Calibration paths, space-constrained RF routing in compact RF modules, and drones
QPC6188 Flexible wideband routing Simplifies multi-path RF routing while maintaining low loss and signal linearity across multiple bands Switching networks in infrastructure, industrial, drone, and test system applications

Samples are available through Qorvo. Visit the Qorvo IMS hub for more information.

About Qorvo

Qorvo supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible.  It combines product and technology leadership, systems level expertise, and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve customers’ most complex technical challenges.  Qorvo serves diverse high-growth segments of large global markets, including automotive, consumer, defense & aerospace, industrial & enterprise, and infrastructure. and mobile.  Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how a diverse and innovative team.

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