Qorvo, a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, has announced a new family of RF switches designed to simplify multi-band radio architectures. Spanning 50 MHz to 10 GHz, the family reduces component count, improves signal integrity and enables more efficient RF system design across 5G infrastructure, industrial, drone and test applications.
As 5G radios expand to support wider bandwidths and more frequency bands, including emerging spectrum such as FR3, designers face increasing challenges maintaining isolation and signal integrity without adding size, loss and complexity. Many current designs rely on cascaded switch architectures or multiple narrowband devices, increasing insertion loss, degrading linearity and signal integrity, and adding board space and design effort.
“Designers no longer have to rely on cascaded switch architectures to achieve high isolation. We’re delivering that performance in a single device across a very wide bandwidth,” said Debbie Gibson, general manager of Qorvo’s infrastructure business. This approach reduces insertion loss, maintains signal linearity and simplifies design, improving receiver performance in applications such as digital pre-distortion (DPD) feedback.
Key Features of Qorvo’s New Switches
The QPC6144 is a high-isolation RF switch designed to simplify RF front-end architectures by eliminating the need for cascaded switches. It provides more than 65 dB of isolation in a single device, helping reduce design complexity, component count, and board space requirements. The switch is well suited for applications such as digital pre-distortion (DPD) feedback paths, calibration paths, and other high-isolation signal paths in 5G radios and advanced drone communication systems.
The QPC6122 is a compact wideband RF switch developed for space-constrained designs that require low insertion loss and high signal linearity across wide bandwidths. By integrating multiple switching functions into a compact device, it helps reduce the number of external components in RF signal routing architectures. Typical applications include calibration paths and compact RF modules used in drones, wireless infrastructure, and other miniaturized communication systems.
The QPC6188 is a flexible wideband RF switch designed for multi-path signal routing applications across multiple frequency bands. It simplifies complex RF routing networks while maintaining low insertion loss and high linearity, enabling efficient signal management in demanding RF systems. The device is suitable for switching networks used in wireless infrastructure, industrial systems, drones, and RF test and measurement equipment.
The new family of devices forms a unified switching platform that supports both high-isolation and general-purpose routing. By consolidating switching functions into fewer components, engineers can reduce BOM complexity, simplify layouts and accelerate development across multiple applications.
Samples are available now through Qorvo and will be showcased at IMS2026, June 7–12 in Boston, Booth 20036.
Click here to learn more about Qorvo’s QPC6144 switch.