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Analog Devices Lays Foundation for 4G to
5G Migration with Expanded RadioVerse™
Wireless Technology and Design Ecosystem
(ADI) today announced the latest update to its
award-winning
RadioVerse™
technology
and
design ecosystem, which simplifies and accelerates
radio development for wireless carriers and
telecommunications equipment manufacturers as they
transition their cellular base stations from 4G to 5G
networks. ADI’s expanded RadioVerse portfolio features
new radio transceiver hardware, software tools, and a
robust design environment that enables the smaller,
lower power radios necessary in next generation
networks. The new offering allows customers to quickly
evaluate and develop radio designs for 4G small cell and
Pre-5G massive MIMO systems, key building blocks in
the transition to 5G, enabling faster data rates while
improving connectivity and data throughput in densely
populated, high-traffic areas such as office buildings,
sport stadiums and public transit systems.
Addressing radio design at the circuit, architecture,
system and software levels, the updated RadioVerse
release includes the AD9375 RF transceiver, the
newest addition to ADI’s highly integrated wideband
RF transceiver series. The AD9375 is the first RF
transceiver to incorporate the digital pre-distortion (DPD)
algorithm on-chip – a design breakthrough that reduces
DPD power consumption by 90 percent compared to
competing solutions.
The re-partitioning of the DPD system from the FPGA
to the transceiver cuts the number of JESD204B serial
data interface lanes in half, resulting in a dramatic power
savings particularly as the number of antennas per base
station increases from two to 128 in support of Pre-5G
massive MIMO radio-channel density requirements.
Other benefits include a more compact radio circuit
layout, which simplifies routing and system design,
reduces base station size, and allows designers to
use a lower-cost, less complex FGPA. In small cells
these benefits allow more frequency bands per cell for
increased network capacity, while minimizing the impact
to system power consumption and size.
The AD9375 transceiver enables a common radio
platform design that is tunable over a range of 300
MHz to 6 GHz, operates on a 6-Gbps JESD204B
interface and consumes less than 5 Watts. Similar to
the award-winning AD9371, the AD9375 has two 100-
MHz receivers, two 250-MHz transmitters, a two-input
observation receiver and a three-input sniffer receiver.
The transceiver’s integrated DPD solution supports
3G and 4G waveforms with an instantaneous signal
bandwidth of up to 40 MHz.
In addition to the AD9375, the RadioVerse transceiver
hardware portfolio features wideband devices for base
station architectures ranging from macro- to pico- and
femto-cell form factors, in addition to ultra-low power,
narrowband transceivers for industrial Internet of Things
applications that require long range, network robustness,
and long battery life.
RadioVerse Design and Technology Ecosystem
Accelerates Wireless Development
Developed to help customers reduce radio size, weight
and power (SWaP) while maintaining the highest
possible radio performance, the RadioVerse technology
and design ecosystem includes a new small-cell radio
reference design with a full AD9375-enabled JESD204B-
to-antenna radio signal chain. This helps customers
further simplify design and accelerate time to market,
while minimizing engineering costs. Developed in
partnership with Benetel Ltd., a radio solutions provider,
the reference design supports 2×2 20-MHz LTE with
250-mW output-power-per-antenna and consumes less
than 10 Watts, all in a small form factor measuring 88
mm x 83 mm.
ADI’s RadioVerse prototyping platforms also provide
advanced simulation and analysis of the transceiver
using MATLAB® and Simulink® modeling software,
device drivers and full evaluation systems that directly
connect to FPGAdevelopment platforms, and third-party
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