Description
The MSA-9970 is a high performance silicon bipolar Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) housed in a hermetic high reliability package. This MMIC is designed with high open loop gain and is intended to be used with external resistive and reactive feedback elements to create a variety of special purpose gain blocks.

Features
• Open Loop Feedback Amplifier
• Performance Flexibility with User Selected External Feedback for:
    Broadband Minimum Ripple Amplifiers
    Low Return Loss Amplifiers
    Negative Gain Slope Amplifiers
• Usable Gain to 6.0 GHz
• 16.0 dB Typical Open Loop Gain at 1.0 GHz
• 14.5 dBm Typical P1dB at 1.0␣ GHz
• Hermetic Gold-ceramic Microstrip Package