Analog Devices recently announced a software-defined radio (SDR) rapid prototyping kit with dual 2 x 2 AD9361 RF transceivers to simplify and rapidly prototype 4 × 4 MIMO wireless transceiver applications on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 all-programmable SoC development platforms. The AD-FMCOMMS5-EBZ rapid prototyping kit provides a hardware/software ecosystem solution addressing the challenges of SDR transceiver synchronization experienced by RF and analog designers when implementing systems using MIMO architectures. A webinar is available on how to synchronize multiple RF transceivers in high-channel density applications.
Source: Analog Devices
The AD-FMCOMMS5-EBZ rapid prototyping kit includes the following:
- An FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) featuring two of Analog AD9361 2 x 2 RF transceivers and support circuitry
- Reference designs
- Design and simulation tools for MathWorks
- HDL (hardware description language) code
- Device drivers for Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs
- Online support at ADI’s EngineerZone for rapid prototyping to reduce development time and risk.
The AD-FMCOMMS5-EBZ rapid prototyping kit is the fifth SDR rapid prototyping kit ADI has introduced in the last year to help customers address the global SDR market. SDR MIMO applications range from defense electronics and RF instrumentation to communications infrastructure and include active antennas, transmit beamforming, receive angle of arrival systems, and open-source SDR development projects.
The AD9361 operates over a frequency range of 70 MHz to 6 GHz. It is a complete radio design that combines multiple functions, including an RF front end, mixed-signal baseband section, frequency synthesizers, two analog-to-digital converters and two direct conversion receivers in a single chip. The AD9361 supports channel bandwidth from less than 200 kHz to 56 MHz, and is highly programmable, offering the widest dynamic range available in the market today with state-of-the-art noise figure and linearity.
Source: Analog Devices
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