Analog Devices Makes MEMS Switch Technology a Commercial Reality
November 08 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
For OEMs, new switch technology enables
next-generation instrumentation equipment with increased channel
density and extended speed, operating lifetime and reduced power
consumption.
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today introduced a breakthrough in
switch technology that provides a long-sought replacement for
electromechanical relay designs first adopted by the electronics
industry more than 100 years ago. ADI’s new RF-MEMS switch
technology is enabling faster, smaller, lower power, more reliable
instrumentation equipment by resolving multiple performance
limitations commonly attributed to relays, whose origins date to
the earliest days of the electric telegraph. With the commercial
release of products enabled by this technology, original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) can significantly improve the accuracy and
versatility of automatic test equipment (ATE) and other
instrumentation tools to help their customers reduce testing costs,
power and time to market. Future products within the MEMS switch
series will replace relays in aerospace and defense, healthcare,
and communications infrastructure equipment, allowing OEMs in those
markets to pass similar size, power and cost savings along to their
customers.
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The first in a new product series, ADI’s ADGM1304 and ADGM1004
RF MEMS switches are 95 percent smaller, 30 times faster, 10 times
more reliable, and use 10 times less power than conventional
electromechanical relays.
- Learn more about ADI’s MEMS switch
technology: http://www.analog.com/memsswitch
- View the ADGM1304 and ADGM1004 MEMS
switch product pages, download data sheets, order samples and
evaluation boards:
- http://www.analog.com/ADGM1304
- http://www.analog.com/ADGM1004
- Connect with engineers and ADI product
experts on EngineerZone®, an online technical support community:
https://ez.analog.com/community/switches_multiplexers/content
MEMS Switch Technology Delivers 0-Hz (DC) to Wideband RF
PerformanceUnlike other switch alternatives such as solid-state
relays, the ADGM1304 and ADGM1004 MEMS switches have superior
precision and RF performance from 0 Hz (DC) to 14 GHz. ADI’s MEMS
switch solution contains two die to maximize operational
performance – an electrostatically actuated switch in a
hermetically sealed silicon cap, and a low-voltage, low-current
driver IC. The switching element has a highly conditioned,
extremely reliable metal-to-metal contact that is actuated via an
electrostatic force generated by the companion driver IC. The
resultant co-packaged solution ensures best-in-class DC precision
and RF performance, and makes the switch extremely easy to use.
Switch Breakthrough Extends ATE Equipment Lifetime and
Channel DensitiesThe highly reliable ADGM1304 and ADGM1004
increase cold-switching lifetime by a factor of 10 compared to
electromechanical relays, extending ATE system operating life and
reducing costly downtime caused by relay failures. Additionally,
the extremely small height of the ADGM1304 and ADGM1004 MEMS switch
packages allow designers to surface-mount the devices on both sides
of their ATE test boards to boost channel densities at reduced cost
and without expanding equipment footprint. An integrated charge
pump removes the need for external drivers, further reducing ATE
system size, while a multiplexer configuration simplifies the
fan-out structure compared to DPDT relay designs.
Pricing and Availability
PartNumber
SampleAvailability
ProductionAvailability
Price Eachin
1,000Units
Package
ADGM1304
Now
Now
$36.58
24-lead
5mm × 4mm × 0.95mm LFCSP
ADGM1004 Now February 2017 $39.34
24-lead
5mm x 4mm x 1.45mm LFCSP
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Analog Devices, Inc.Linda Kincaid,
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