Industry's Smallest, Single-Conversion Tuner for Mobile TV Achieves Lowest BOM

Thursday, November 8th, 2007
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  • The MAX2165 is a single-conversion tuner for mobile TV.
  • This highly integrated tuner reduces size and cost by eliminating the need for an external LNA and filter, thus enabling the industry’s smallest package.
  • The integration of a tracking filter and transmit-reject notch filter enable this reduction in size and cost.
  • The MAX2165 is ideal for cell phones, USB sticks, and other handheld devices.

SUNNYVALE, CA — Maxim Integrated Products (Pink Sheets: MXIM) introduces the MAX2165 highly integrated, single-conversion tuner for DVB-H, mobile TV applications. This tuner achieves the industry’s lowest external bill-of-materials (BOM) in the smallest package by integrating all of the tuning functions along with an RF-tracking filter; low-noise amplifier; transmit-reject notch filter; and programmable baseband, lowpass channel-selection filters into a small, 5mm x 5mm, 28-pin TQFN. High integration in a small package makes the MAX2165 ideal for cell phones and other handheld devices.

MAX2165

The MAX2165 consumes only 21mW of power at 8% duty cycle, covers a 470MHz to 780MHz UHF-signal range, and operates from a single 2.85V supply. It is fully compliant with MBRAI and Nordig requirements, and is specified to operate over the -40°C to +85°C extended temperature range. Prices start at $4.00 (1000-up, FOB USA). An evaluation kit and reference designs are available now.