Abstract

The mobile communication market is the current driving force of the European telecommunication industry with remarkable growth rates. In March 1990 about 2.5 million mobile communication systems have found application in Europe with a forecast of more than 90 million DECT-GSM-PCN systems up to the year 2000. This situation is of great benefit for the semiconductor industry in general and the GaAs components suppliers especially. The reason is that GaAs components maintain their sophisticated performance - low NF and high PAE -under the stringent low power consumption conditions of a handheld. Moreover, the established low-loss GaAs MMIC technology allows in the meantime the production of small SMDs at a reasonable price. In the following, we describe a complete set of GaAs and Silicon devices suitable for the new digital communication systems.