ADI 5G millimeter-wave radar development platform

Analog Devices' mixed signal front end AD9081/AD9082 and synthesizer ADF4371 accelerate the development of your broadband networking applications.

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Giga Farm, an alliance partner of Analog Devices, 5G millimeter-wave radar development platforms, including FMC boards and clock generators using these products.

This article provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the platforms and devices that accelerate the development of 5G, millimeter-wave, and radar.

This development platform consists of the following boards :

• GRF-AD908x-FMC : FMC board equipped with AD9081 or AD9082
• GIGA-PLL : Signal generator with ADF4371 (provides 6.11 GHZ and 768 MHZ clocks for system use)
• GIGA DAQ : FMC host board (communication with ESD 204 interface of AD9081/AD9082)
• GIGA SOC : platform processor (can switch between AD9081/AD9082 APIs on Linux)

The GRF-AD9081-FMC and GRF-AD9082-FMC are ultra-small multi-channel gigabit sample AD/DA FMC boards. AD9081/AD9082 on the board can be controlled by a dedicated API provided by Analog Devices.

This FMC board is a product that can be used in a wide range of applications, such as the development of research, analysis and test equipment, as well as the integration into wireless devices such as 4G LTE and 5G millimeter-wave wireless communication systems.

The AD9081 and AD9082 are highly integrated devices with multi-channel RF A/D and D/A converters that are ideal for a flexible, reconfigurable wireless common platform design.

AD9081/AD9082 Comparison

Since AD9081 and AD9082 are very high-performance products, they require a considerable amount of development resources to use them. The FMC board provided by Giga Farm solves these problems, because know - how is required for handling the high-speed JESD204 interface.

The ADF4371 on the GIGA-PLL is a synthesizer with a wide continuous RF output range of 62 MHz to 32 GHz and the following excellent features.

• Ultra - low FOM (normalized phase noise floor) : -234dBc/Hz
• High phase frequency detection (PFD) function : up to 250 MHz
• Minimum reference spurious : less than - 100 dBc (typical value)
• Low VCO phase noise (-134dBc/Hz, 1 MHz offset at 8 GHz operating frequency)
• Minimum combined phase noise (jitter) : less than 36 fs (10 GHz)
• Integer boundary spurious (-90dBc, offset from integer channel to 960 kHz)
• Built-in tracking filter for harmonic removal

This ADF4371-based GIGA-PLL is available as an ever-smaller signal generator that provides multiple outputs from the GHz clock to the millimeter-wave clock required by JESD204 devices. The GIGA-PLL can be purchased separately.

• Wireless communications infrastructure
• W-CDMA, LTE, LTE-A, Massive-MIMO
• Microwave Point to Point, E-Band 5G mm Wave
• Broadband communication system
• DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS
• Phased array radar and electronic warfare
• Electronic test and measurement systems