Peregrine Semiconductor & RFMW Sign Global Distribution Agreement
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation and RFMW, Ltd. have finalised a worldwide distribution agreement for Peregrine's UltraCMOS RFICs.
Peregrine Semiconductor is a fabless provider of high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs).
RFMW is a specialist distributor providing customers and suppliers with focused distribution of RF and microwave components, as well as specialised component-engineering support.
Under the terms of the agreement, RFMW will stock, distribute and provide applications engineering support for Peregrine's product portfolio, including RF switches, digital step attenuators, prescalers, mixers, Phase Locked Loop frequency synthesizers, and Digitally Tunable Capacitors.
These products target a broad range of applications in the defence, broadband, industrial, mobile wireless device, test-and-measurement equipment, and wireless infrastructure markets.
"RFMW's focus on RF products, technology, and customers is a highly complementary solution to Peregrine's existing global sales network," says Dale Robinette, director of worldwide sales for Peregrine Semiconductor. "Our partnership with RFMW gives us visibility into the very early design stages of customer projects, where our unique UltraCMOS technology process and high performance provide the most benefit."
Joel Levine, president of RFMW, Ltd., adds, "Peregrine Semiconductor's UltraCMOS technology enables the development of highly-integrated RFICs that combine RF, mixed signal, and digital functions on a single chip. We've seen requirements in certain market segments for this type of integration while, at the same time, many of our customers design with discrete devices such as switches, and digital attenuators. Peregrine's product portfolio satisfies the requirements of both. Our immediate goal is to introduce customers to Peregrine's portfolio, in order to expand design-in opportunities."
Peter Saxby, managing director of RFMW in Europe, notes, "Our pan-European sales staff of focused RF specialists are eager to support customer design, prototype, and manufacturing opportunities with Peregrine"˜s devices, which provide much needed support for current design opportunities where we've previously been unable to offer solutions."
