Martin McHugh, Microsemi's product line manager for the new module, said: "RF engineering is a highly specialised discipline and leveraging our deep expertise in this area also allows our customers to reduce design times, reduce time-to-market and minimise project risk."
The ZL70323 is said to implement all RF related functions needed to deploy the implant node in a Medical Implantable Communications Service (MICS) RF telemetry system. An integrated antenna tuning circuit allows the module to be used with a range of implantable antennas.
Integrated in the module are: the ZL70103-based MICS band RF transceiver with integrated matching network, SAW filter for suppression of unwanted blockers, and antenna tuning; a 2.45GHz wake-up receiver matching network; a 24MHz reference frequency crystal; and decoupling capacitors and series termination resistors.
