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News Release from: Analog Devices | Subject: AD9352 and AD9353
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2006
RF transceivers are ready for WiMAX
expansion
The first two devices in a family of RF transceivers for WiMAX certified terminals will help lower the cost and drive the wide-scale deployment of broadband wireless access.
At the WiMAX World Conference, Analog Devices has demonstrated the first two devices in a family of RF (radio frequency) transceivers for WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) certified terminals that will help lower the cost and drive the wide-scale deployment of broadband wireless access Based on the 802.16 standard, WiMAX terminals provide wireless broadband connectivity and are low cost alternatives to wired solutions such as DSL and cable modems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The transceivers feature a direct connection to the digital modem via the ADI/Q digital I/Q interface, a simple parallel CMOS digital I/O interface that has been adopted by multiple digital modem partners.
"ADI is the first company to introduce RF CMOS direct conversion WiMAX transceivers that combine high integration with high performance, and offer the ADI/Q digital I/Q interface for a seamless connection to the digital baseband", said Bernard Aboussouan, VP, Marketing and Business Development for Sequans Communications, a leading supplier of fixed and mobile WiMAX silicon and software.
"We chose to partner with ADI and implement the ADI/Q digital interface on our SQN1110 802.16e compliant digital baseband".
"We are confident that ADI's WiMAX transceivers combined with our digital baseband will offer a solution that meets the price, performance and time to market requirements of WiMAX terminal manufacturers".
"WiMAX continues to gain industry support, with recent commitments by worldwide and North American carriers to build-out a nationwide WiMAX network", said Dave Robertson, Product Line Director, High Speed Signal Processing Group, Analog Devices.
"By introducing products like the AD9352 and AD9353 transceivers, Analog Devices is helping to facilitate the mass deployment of WiMAX and reduce the barriers to cost and performance".
The AD9352 and AD9353 are fully integrated, direct conversion transceivers for WiMAX (IEEE802.16) wireless network systems that offer a complete RF and mixed-signal system on a chip.
The dual-band AD9352 operates in the 2.3 to 2.7 and 4.9 to 5.9GHz ranges and the single-band AD9353 operates in the 3.3 to 3.8GHz range.
Together, the transceivers cover most licensed and unlicensed bands worldwide.
Integrated on the transceivers are 12bit, 160Msample/s ADCs and DACs, along with smart system features such as self-calibration, automatic gain control, transmit power control, support for automatic frequency control, and auxiliary ADCs and DACs for system monitoring.
The onboard convertors and smart system features reduce the required level of real time signal processing between modem and the transceiver, thus dramatically simplifying RF driver development and support.
The transceivers also integrate a high sensitivity direct-conversion CMOS receiver, and channel-select filtering at baseband.
A low phase noise LO path is achieved by integrating a fractional-N synthesiser.
To reduce system cost, an on-chip crystal oscillator replaces the expensive voltage controlled temperature compensated crystal oscillator (VCTCXO).
The devices offer excellent noise figure of 3.5dB along with adjacent channel and alternate channel rejection capability that is 8dB higher than the 802.16 standard requires.
The devices' highly linear transmit path has excellent spectral purity and offers error vector magnitude (EVM) of -37dB at 0dBm output power.
The transmit power is detected by an accurate power detector and autonomously controlled with a range of 60dB with step increments of 0.25dB.
The AD9352 and AD9353 are sampling now with full production scheduled for December 2006.
The transceivers, priced starting at $14.95 per unit in 1000-piece quantities, are available in 9 x 9mm 64-pin lead free chip scale packages (LFCSP), and are specified over an operating temperature range of -40 to +85C.
An evaluation board is available.
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