Gallium arsenide

First, we're expanding Mini-Circuits MMIC portfolio into higher output power products.

The introduction of the GNA series allows us to address applications requiring higher output power across wider bandwidths than our GaAs PAs can provide.

While the GNA-252-5W+ delivers eight watts across 10 megahertz to two and a half gigahertz, our PMA5-83-2W+ GaAs power amplifier delivers two watts operating from 10 megahertz to 10 gigahertz.

Second, our customers, markets, and applications are demanding higher RF output power.

Other MMIC technologies in our portfolio, such as GaAs HEMT, are excellent for lower power broadband PAs, narrow band power amplifiers up to, eh, around 10 watts, broadband drivers, LNAs, and gain blocks.

However, with customers asking for increasingly higher output power, we needed to enter the GaN space.

So Mike, uh, let's talk about some of the engineering challenges involved in bringing these products to market.

You know, being such a broadband parts, achieving the desired output, power and efficiency simultaneously across the full bandwidth, uh, required extensive circuit design simulation, both at the die level and the die and package level.