Analog Devices Debuts AD6633 Digital Up-Converter

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI, Wilmington, MA) extended its VersaCOMM® family of digital up-converters. The AD6633 is a digital up-converter that reduces output power requirements for 3G wireless base station power amplifiers. The AD6633's VersaCREST™ crest-reduction engine enables optimum baseband-to-IF (intermediate frequency) signal conversion by anticipating and reducing power peaks earlier in the signal chain.

The AD6633 is sampling now and will be available in production quantities in August 2004. It is available in 196-lead ball grid array packages. The AD6633 is priced at $60 per unit in 10,000-piece quantities for the six-channel version and at $40 per unit in 10,000-piece quantities for the four-channel version.