• Directional Couplers: transmission coupling devices for separately sampling the forward or backward wave in a transmission line • Front-End Modules: power amplifiers that are integrated with switches, diplexers, filters and other components to create a single package front-end solution • Hybrid: a type of directional coupler used in radio and telecommunications • Infrastructure RF Subsystems: highly integrated transceivers and power amplifiers for wireless base station applications • Isolators/Circulators: ferrite-based components commonly found on the output of high-power amplifiers used to protect receivers in wireless transmission systems. • MIS Silicon Chip Capacitors: used in applications requiring DC blocking and RF bypassing, or as a fixed capacitance tuning element in filters, oscillators, and matching networks • Mixers/Demodulators: integrated, high-dynamic range, zero IF architecture downconverter for use in wireless communication applications • Modulators: designed for direct modulation of high frequency AM, PM or compound carriers • Optocouplers/Optoisolators: a semiconductor device that allows signals to be transferred between circuits or systems while ensuring that the circuits or systems are electrically isolated from each other. • Phase Locked Loops (PLL): closed-loop feedback control system that maintains a generated signal in a fixed phase relationship to a reference signal • Phase Shifters: designed for use in power amplifier distortion compensation circuits in base station applications • Power Dividers/Combiners: utilized to equally split signals into in-phase signals as often found in balanced signal chains and local oscillator distribution networks • Receivers: electronic devices that change a radio signal from a transmitter into useful information • Switches: components that perform the change between the transmit and receive function, as well as the band function for cellular handsets • Synthesizers: provides ultra-fine frequency resolution, fast switching speed, and low phase-noise performance • Technical Ceramics: polycrystalline oxide materials used for a wide variety of electrical, mechanical, thermal and magnetic applications • Transceivers: devices that have both a transmitter and a receiver which are combined and share common circuitry or a single housing • VCOs/Synthesizers: fully integrated, high performance signal source for high dynamic range transceivers We believe we possess broad technology capabilities and one of the most complete wireless communications product portfolios in the industry. By turning complexity into simplicity, we provide our customers with the following competitive advantages: • Broad front-end module and precision analog product portfolio THE SKYWORKS ADVANTAGE Page 71 Skyworks / Annual Report 2011