AD-FMCOMMS8-EBZ

Quad Wideband RF Transceiver FMC Module.

Overview

The EVAL-AD-FMCOMMS8-EBZ is an integrated RF design containing two Analog Devices ADRV9009 wideband transceivers. By connecting to a compatible FPGA development board that supports FMC HPC mechanical connector and JESD204B bus interface it can be used for evaluation and prototyping with up to 4 Transmit and Receive channels that can be synchronised in phase and frequency. Additionally it can be used with the ADRV9009-ZU11EG RF-SOM system, giving a path to evaluating and prototyping with up to 8 phase and frequency synchronised Transmit and Receive channels for complex multi-stream applications ensuring end-to-end deterministic latency.

The ADRV9009 Transceivers include integrated LO and phase synchronization. Overall system frequency and phase synchronization is maintained with a clock tree structure using ADI high performance low jitter HMC7044 device, making it ideal for applications requiring RF phase alignment with a large number of channels.

Features:

• Two ADRV9009 devices providing quad transmitters, quad receivers, and quad input observation receivers for DPD

• Max Rx BW: 200 MHz

• Max Tunable Tx synthesis BW: 450 MHz

• Max Observation Rx BW: 450 MHz

• Fully integrated fractional-N RF synthesizers

• Multi-chip phase synchronization for all RF LO and baseband clocks

• Tuning range: 75 MHz to 6000 MHz

• FMC HPC compatible interface

• VITA 57.1 mechanical dimensions (84 mm x 69 mm)

Applications:

• Multi-channel RF systems

• Digital pre-distortion (DPD)

• Phased array and beamforming

• Software-defined radio (SDR)

• MIMO communications

Figure 1 EVAL-AD-FMCOMMS8-EBZ

Recommendations

People who follow the flow that is outlined have a much better experience with things. However, like many things, documentation is never as complete as it should be. If you have any questions, check the Help and Support section at the bottom of the page.

Table of contents

1. Using the evaluation board/full stack reference design that we offer:

   1. Prerequisites - what you need to get started

   2. Quick start guides:

      1. Using the ADRV9009-ZU11EG

      2. Using the ZCU102

      3. Using the Arria10 SoC

   3. Configure an SD Card with Kuiper

   4. Linux Applications

      1. IIO Oscilloscope

2. Design with the ADRV9009

   1. Block diagram

   2. ADRV9009 product page

   3. Full datasheet and chip design package

   4. MATLAB Filter Wizard / Profile Generator for ADRV9009

   5. Hardware in the Loop / How to design your own custom BaseBand

      • GNU Radio

      • Transceiver Toolbox

   6. Resources for designing a custom ADRV9009-based platform

      1. For Linux software:

         1. ADRV9009 Linux device driver - ADRV9009 Device Driver Customization - Customizing the devicetree on the target

         2. JESD204 (FSM) Interface Linux Kernel framework

         3. HMC7044 Clock Linux driver

         4. JESD204B Transmit Linux driver

            • JESD204B/C Link Transmit Peripheral

            • JESD204B Status Utility

         5. JESD204B Receive Linux driver

            • JESD204B/C Link Receive Peripheral

            • JESD204B Status Utility

         6. AXI_ADXCVR Highspeed Transceivers Linux driver

            • JESD204 Eye Scan

         7. AXI ADC HDL Linux driver

         8. AXI DAC HDL Linux driver

         9. AXI-DMAC DMA Controller Linux driver

         10. AXI DMAC

      2. ADRV9009 No-OS System Level Design Setup

      3. HDL reference design

3. Production testing

4. Help and Support

Block diagram

Warning

All the products described on this page include ESD (electrostatic discharge) sensitive devices. Electrostatic charges as high as 4000V readily accumulate on the human body or test equipment and can discharge without detection. Although the boards feature ESD protection circuitry, permanent damage may occur on devices subjected to high-energy electrostatic discharges. Therefore, proper ESD precautions are recommended to avoid performance degradation or loss of functionality. This includes removing static charge on external equipment, cables, or antennas before connecting to the device.

Help and support

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